Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
| Posting date: | 01 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 pro rata per annum inclusive of inner London HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0YF |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6276071/294-MHCA-6276071-JB |
Summary
A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work 0.6 within the Older People’s Inpatient Services (0.6 WTE) and Older People’s Community Team (0.2 WTE). The inpatient role involves working collaboratively with the two inpatient teams to provide psychological assessment and formulation of inpatients with mental health difficulties and/or dementia, facilitating complex case discussions, supporting the implementation of effective psychosocial interventions by staff teams, as well as conducting 1:1 therapeutic work with older people with mental health difficulties. The community role involves both 1:1 therapeutic work and neuropsychological assessment, joining another psychologist who is already established in the team. We would consider applicants wishing to only work the 0.6 inpatient role.
You will be well supported within the psychology team working with older people across South West London & St Georges, where continuing professional development and staff support are highly valued. We have
specialist pathway leads in Therapies, Neuropsychological Assessment, and Care Home Liaison / BPSD and you will receive regular individual supervision and support from senior Psychologists within the service. The service has strong links with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Program at the University of Surrey, where we regularly provide placements and contribute to teaching on the program.
Psychology is highly valued within the Older People’s inpatient and community services, both in terms of complex client work, neuropsychological assessment of dementia, and supporting teams in formulating care, delivering training, and leading service development. The current role will involve working across the two older adult inpatient wards located in Springfield and Tolworth Hospitals (who take patients from all five Trust community teams), and the Sutton Older People’s Community Mental Health Team.
As Principal Clinical Psychologist you will conduct psychological assessments, formulation, therapeutic intervention, neuropsychological assessment and consultation, for clients with mental health problems and/or dementia. You will work as part of an MDT including providing consultation, complex case discussions, and supporting with staff training. You will also supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
This post is based one day per week in the Older People’s inpatient ward at Springfield Hospital, one day per week in the Older People’s inpatient ward at Tolworth Hospital, one day per week in Sutton Older People’s Community Team, and one day flexibly. We would consider applicants wishing to only work the inpatient part of this role (0.6 WTE).
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to their clinical team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
10. To provide expertise, advice and support to all members of the treatment team to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care and to support other team Applied Psychologists in the service area, in their contribution (direct and indirect) to providing a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to all clients of the service in which they work.
This advert closes on Tuesday 21 May 2024
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work 0.6 within the Older People’s Inpatient Services (0.6 WTE) and Older People’s Community Team (0.2 WTE). The inpatient role involves working collaboratively with the two inpatient teams to provide psychological assessment and formulation of inpatients with mental health difficulties and/or dementia, facilitating complex case discussions, supporting the implementation of effective psychosocial interventions by staff teams, as well as conducting 1:1 therapeutic work with older people with mental health difficulties. The community role involves both 1:1 therapeutic work and neuropsychological assessment, joining another psychologist who is already established in the team. We would consider applicants wishing to only work the 0.6 inpatient role.
You will be well supported within the psychology team working with older people across South West London & St Georges, where continuing professional development and staff support are highly valued. We have
specialist pathway leads in Therapies, Neuropsychological Assessment, and Care Home Liaison / BPSD and you will receive regular individual supervision and support from senior Psychologists within the service. The service has strong links with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Program at the University of Surrey, where we regularly provide placements and contribute to teaching on the program.
Psychology is highly valued within the Older People’s inpatient and community services, both in terms of complex client work, neuropsychological assessment of dementia, and supporting teams in formulating care, delivering training, and leading service development. The current role will involve working across the two older adult inpatient wards located in Springfield and Tolworth Hospitals (who take patients from all five Trust community teams), and the Sutton Older People’s Community Mental Health Team.
As Principal Clinical Psychologist you will conduct psychological assessments, formulation, therapeutic intervention, neuropsychological assessment and consultation, for clients with mental health problems and/or dementia. You will work as part of an MDT including providing consultation, complex case discussions, and supporting with staff training. You will also supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by trainee clinical psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
This post is based one day per week in the Older People’s inpatient ward at Springfield Hospital, one day per week in the Older People’s inpatient ward at Tolworth Hospital, one day per week in Sutton Older People’s Community Team, and one day flexibly. We would consider applicants wishing to only work the inpatient part of this role (0.6 WTE).
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to their clinical team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
10. To provide expertise, advice and support to all members of the treatment team to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care and to support other team Applied Psychologists in the service area, in their contribution (direct and indirect) to providing a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to all clients of the service in which they work.
This advert closes on Tuesday 21 May 2024