Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
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Band 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
A great opportunity for a clinical or counselling psychologist provide psychology input to the St Helier hospital Psychiatric Liaison Service. This is a varied role with opportunities to use your skills in direct assessments and interventions with service users, as well as indirect work to support the whole team in gaining a psychological perspective when formulating and planning interventions.
You will have a wide breadth of work, including working with people presenting to hospital due to mental health crisis, as well as supporting other hospital inpatients who have co-occurring mental health difficulties.
You will work along side other professionals including psychiatrists and nurses, helping to develop the whole team approach to managing their cases.
You will have strong links with the SWLSGT Acute & Urgent care Psychology team.
This post can be offered as a Band 7 developmental role, with progression to Band 8a upon successful completion of the necessary competencies and requirements, subject to managerial and professional approval.
Provision of psychology input to the St Helier Liaison Psychiatry Service to include:
* Direct work with service users. Assessments, Formulations, Crisis planning and care planning, providing recommendations for treatment. Providing brief psychological interventions to address difficulties, such as work on emotion regulation, relapse prevention etc.
* Indirect work with service users: Contribution to team meetings to communicate psychology perspective in planning their care. Engaging with other stakeholders to establish treatment needs when discharged from Liaison team.
* Teamwork: Supporting the team more generally through provision of regular reflective practice, teaching and case formulations.
* Opportunity for supervision of clinical psychology trainee.
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 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.
About our locations:
St Helier Liaison Psychiatry Service is located on the first floor of Ferguson House, within the St Helier Hospital premises. It offers a convenient location for staff, with excellent public transport links, a walkable local high street, and a variety of restaurants available on-site. Easily accessible and centrally positioned, it’s designed to support your daily workflow and comfort.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Donald Kintu Job title: Team Manager Email address: donald.kintu@swlstg.nhs.uk Telephone number: 02082962288
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