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Assistant Psychologist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 03 Mehefin 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £30,279 - £33,116 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Gorffennaf 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Tooting, SW17 7DJ |
| Cwmni: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6360247/294-CAMHS-6360247-PB |
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You will be working within the newly established Eating Disorders Integrated Outreach Team (IOT) offers a service to children and young people aged 2-17 years with all eating disorders or eating difficulties that put them at risk of admission to inpatient eating disorder units.
Clinicians within the team will be embedded within the two existing CAMHS Community Eating Disorders teams, at SWLSTG and MCCAED. This integrated approach will enable them to access the collective resources and expertise of the larger teams, whilst also enabling staff to connect with the other outreach clinicians regularly.
Key aims of the IOT include preventing admissions, reducing bed days in general hospitals and inpatient units, and improving outcomes of community eating disorder treatment, by offering brief (max 4 weeks), targeted, evidence-based, intensive, support for young people and their parents.
Clinicians will see young people and families in a range of different settings, depending on client need: on paediatric / medical wards, in the eating disorder clinic, in general adolescent or eating disorder units, client homes, local community and schools.
• To provide support to the Eating Disorders IOT which is multi-disciplinary, integrated service delivering appointments-based outpatient treatment as well as additional more intensive interventions.
• To work with young people and parents directly, offering a range of therapeutic interventions including meal support and parental coaching.
• To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, data entry, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
• To provide clinical assessment as required by the service, under the direct guidance, close clinical and professional supervision of senior clinical colleagues.
• To work following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, while closely supervised and regularly seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager.
• To work under the supervision of a qualified psychologists, but without direct or daily supervision according to an agreed plan and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Key interventions will include parent coaching, meal support, consultation and training for professionals. The service will run 9am – 5pm, Mon-Fri. Clinicians will have small caseloads to allow for the possibility to offer brief intensive treatment. The role offers exciting and plentiful opportunities for training and career development.
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.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
• To be involved in the assessment of young people and their families for treatment in the Eating Disorders Integrated Outreach Service. You will work closely with team colleagues to plan effective care.
• To work with senior clinicians providing individual and family therapeutic work for young people with eating disorders.
• To assist in arranging and co-facilitate therapeutic groups for clients in the Eating Disorders Integrated Outreach Service
• To assist senior clinicians in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials. This can involve adapting therapy to accommodate comorbid conditions such as Autism Spectrum Condition or delivering specific therapies for common comorbidities such as anxiety disorders or low mood.
• To work with other staff to assess inpatients, community patients, day patients or residents and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.
• To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place
• To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
KR 2 Research and development
• Data collection, data entry and database management, and analysis of service development, audit and research data, production of reports and summaries using IT and statistical programmes. This is a major component of the role.
• To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist in the development in the Trust of evidence based practice.
• Under guidance to conduct surveys with service users and carers to gather views on service provision
• To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.
KR 3 Policy and service development
• To follow policies and procedures in own area of work
• To participate in the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
KR 4 Care or management of resources
• To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.
• To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting supplies as needed.
KR 5 Teaching and Training
• To support teaching and training opportunities offered by the service
• To participate in demonstrating work methods to newly recruited Assistant Psychologists and to support their development of necessary skills.
• To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations or published articles.
• To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
• To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
KR 6 Record-keeping and Information Governance
• To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
• Under the supervision of the practitioner psychologist to maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
• To maintain data bases and enter data and perform analyses and produce reports.
KR 7 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
• To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
• To participate in the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
KR 8 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines
• To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed
• To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
• To undertake personal training relevant to the post in agreement with the supervising psychologist and the manager.
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Jun 2024