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Clinical/Counselling Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Ebrill 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Luton, LU4 0DZ |
| Cwmni: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6680569/363-CHB6680569 |
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The post holder will work under the umbrella of the clinical health psychology service, covering specialties of obesity, pain management, limb reconstruction, general medicine and HIV. The post holder will be employed by ELFT, managed and supervised by the ELFT Clinical Health Psychology Lead but will hold an honorary contract with Bedfordshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Under this preceptorship, the post holder will provide specialist psychological assessments of patients attending the Luton and Dunstable Hospital and other satellite sites.
Be responsible for the formulation and implementation of a broad range of specialist psychological treatment and/or management of patients’ mental health problems within the context of physical health, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of health psychology.
Manage, co-ordinate, provide clinical supervision to the work of CAPs, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists as appropriate.
Ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to a psychologically-based framework for the understanding and care of patients with various health conditions, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
Develop and implement evaluation of the work, and prepare reports to disseminate the work.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Participate in CPD and other developmental activities, keeping up to date with relevant psychological research and national guidance (DoH, NICE etc).
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
• Provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources (including psychological tests, measures/rating scales including Recovery measures and Quality of Life measures, direct and indirect observation and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and involved others.)
• Formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of mental health problems across a range of care settings, based upon a theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information in order to design specialist programmes of treatment for individuals, groups and families tailored to individual need.
• Provide expertise and psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other multidisciplinary professionals contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis and service planning.
• Undertake risk assessment and management and to provide specialist advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management holding in mind the relevant legal frameworks.
• Be responsible for providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive, distressing and emotional information in relation to health issues where there are often barriers to acceptance.
• Spend sustained amounts of time with service users who may be aggressive and hostile, who may have poor communication skills and self-care and special physical and/or mental needs.
• Be mindful of the needs of individuals and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and, with service users and colleagues, co-produce innovative ways of communicating and working across language and cultural barriers.
• Develop working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations. Provide expert consultation about the psychological care of the service user group to external staff and organisations.
• Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients, e.g. service users, families and carers, other professionals, formal panels and statutory and voluntary organisations, orally, in writing making use of Trust provided Electronic Health Record and data analytics systems.
This advert closes on Sunday 18 May 2025