Position Overview
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Practitioner (Band 8a 0.6 22.5 hours/week) based at Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health Unit.
We are looking for an experienced psychological professional, enthusiastic for working in acute mental health services. The post offers a unique opportunity to work on a male ward that is part of Culture of Care, a national quality improvement programme centred in safe, trauma informed, therapeutic and equity focused patient care.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide a full and comprehensive psychological therapies service to the acute ward, including assessments, formulation and brief interventions for service users and their families.
* Be an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the approach to care is safe, formulation driven and trauma informed.
* Develop the multi-disciplinary team’s psychological understanding through teaching, team formulation, consultation and supervision.
* Provide post-incident support.
* Contribute to the implementation of RAID, a psychological approach to working with behaviours that challenge, through facilitation of training and embedding this into MDT practice. This is part of our service priorities on reducing restrictive practice through implementing our Positive and Caring Environments strategy.
* To be proactively involved in the quality improvement programme for Culture of Care.
* Opportunity for service development and research.
Qualifications & Experience
We encourage applications from experienced therapists who have not worked in acute mental health services but who have enthusiasm for and interest in developing a career in these unique services and settings.
This advert closes on Monday 27 Oct 2025.
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