Job summary
Job Title: Home Treatment TeamPsychology graduate
Grade: 5
Trust: South London & Maudsley NHSFoundation Trust
Location: Bethlem Royal Hospital,Monks Orchard Rd, Beckenham BR3 3BX
Hours: Monday Friday
This is a Split role capacity as a Psychology Assistant (2 days a week) and as a Home Treatment Team practitioner (3 days a week).
Main duties of the job
The South London & Maudsley NHS Trust provides a full range ofmental health services to people of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth, and Croydonas well as substance misuse services for people in Bexley, Greenwich, andBromley. The Trust provides specialist services to people from across the UK.
It has approximately 4,800 staff and a budget of £300 million. The trustalso works closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology andNeuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's HealthPartners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations inthe world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness.Their scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care andtreatment, science and research, and training
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Job description
Job responsibilities
Youwill assess the needs of service users and plan and evaluate care using a collaborativeapproach with service users, their families, and carers. You will work alongside other members of themulti-disciplinary team to ensure effective care delivery, including the use ofevidenced based time-limited psychological interventions, risk assessments andmanagement, and safe discharge processes.
Youwill ensure the physical health care needs of service users are appropriatelyaddressed and monitored. You will liaise effectively with other professionalsand services to ensure good communication is maintained and care is transferredseamlessly.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Psychology graduate
Experience
Essential
2. Experience working in people with crisis in community and wards
3. Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions
Desirable
4. In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
5. Relevant Qualifications
6. Registration with the relevant Registration Body