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Assistant Psychologist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum plus HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE5 8AZ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6412278/334-CLI-6412278 |
Summary
The Psychological Interventions Clinic for oUtpatients with Psychosis (PICuP) are recruiting to one permanent Assistant Psychologist post, which aims to offer valuable career development experience. The experience offered by the post is suitable for candidates who aspire to future training in clinical psychology and other psychological therapy professions.
All applications must state the following clearly in the first sentence of the supporting information; that you meet the first degree in psychology criteria of 2:1 or above with eligibility for British Psychological Society (BPS) Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC). Applications without this information clearly stated will not be shortlisted.
Applicants require research experience including data & statistical analysis. Applicants must also have experience that supports working in mental health services and with the diverse communities who use the Trust’s services. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and/or lived experience.
Candidates will only be shortlisted if their application form clearly indicates how the applicant meets the essential criteria of the person specification.
In view of the expected high levels of interest in the post recruitment may close before the stated closing date and we recommend prompt application.
The post will suit dynamic and enthusiastic applicants with an interest in working with people with psychosis.
You will be based at the Psychological Interventions Clinic foroUtpatientswith Psychosis (PICuP), based at the Maudsley Hospital, with the purpose ofassistingpractitioner psychologists in the delivery of a specialist outpatient cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis (CBTp) service. Some outreach work at other team bases in the Trust will be required including in Southwark, Lewisham,Lambethand Croydon.
Main duties include:
• Toassistwithmonitoringall referrals to the PICuP clinic.
• Toassistin clinically related administrative tasks.
• Toassistwith carrying out theinitialassessments for allappropriate referralsto the team using a battery of standardised assessment measures and to score these measures.
• Towritereports to clients and referrers based on the findings of the assessment.
• To repeat the assessments at further time points for people who engage in therapy.
• Toassistwith the collation of monthly therapy activity figures for presentation at senior management finance meetings.
• To provide clinical work as required by the service, under the direct guidance, close clinical and professional supervision of a practitioner psychologist.
The Psychological Interventions Clinic foroUtpatientswith Psychosis (PICuP) is an award-winning specialist psychology service,establishedin 1999, providing cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) and family interventions (FI) for individuals with distressing psychotic experiences, as well asadditionalor secondary mental health difficulties. PICuP is a specialist psychology service, hosted by Croydon Operational Directorate (butlocatedat the Maudsley Hospital), working across all 4 SLaM boroughs and theSouth Eastenvirons. It is a national serviceand alsotakes referrals from around London,theSouth Eastand nationally,although most of the referrals are from SLaM. Referrals are a heterogeneous group, ranging in diagnosis and severity. The targets of intervention also vary widely, from distressing psychotic experiences to emotional problems (including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; PTSD) within the context of a history of psychosis and/or bipolar disorder, as well as relapse prevention or interpersonal difficulties. PICuP offers a peer support service to people referred to the team. PICuP is also involved in training mental health professionals in specialist CBT,Tf-CBTand FI for psychosis skills. PICuP is entirely psychology-led. It wasestablishedin 1999 following a randomised controlled trial in CBT for psychosis. The clinic was founded by Prof. Elizabeth Kuipers, is headed byProf. Emmanuelle Peters, and is operationally managed by Dr Nadine Keen. .
You will assist with monitoring all referrals to the clinic. This will involve liaising closely with the current PICuP assistant psychologists, senior administrator and PICuP coordinator (Dr Nadine Keen), as well as the referring clinicians. It will also involve working closely with the PICuP Director, Dr Emmanuelle Peters, the PICuP therapists and the PICuP Peer Recovery Officer. You will carry out formal assessments of clients using a range of standardised assessment measures at different time points.
Other duties will include scoring and entering of assessment data, writing reports back to referrers, preparing reports for management meetings and maintaining relevant clinical databases.
You will be expected to see clients with a range of clinical presentations, including current psychotic symptoms, bipolar disorder, emotional problems, and symptoms of trauma. There may be the opportunity to engage in some direct therapy with clients, under the supervision of the therapists and to contribute to audit and research projects. Weekly supervision will be provided by the PICuP coordinator (Dr Nadine Keen) and also by another clinical psychologist in the team.
This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Jul 2024