Highly Specialist Psychologist/Psychological Therapist
We are looking for an enthusiastic psychological therapist to join our Greenwich community Secondary care psychology team (ADAPT) based in Woolwich and Charlton. This is to work with clients who experience difficulties associated with trauma, low mood, anxiety and personality related difficulties. Our Psychological Therapies Team offer a range of modalities including MBT, CBT, EMDR, art therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy. The team work closely with the wider MDT to provide Structured Clinical Management (SCM).
We also have plans to launch a DBT programme. You will form part of a growing and energetic psychological therapies team and have access to specialist modality specific supervision.
We have a permanent post (1.0wte) in Greenwich ADAPT East and a 12 month fixed term post (0.8 wte) in Greenwich ADAPT West.
We would welcome applications for psychotherapists, clinical, counselling or forensic psychologists with experience working with personality disorder, anxiety, depression and trauma.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified psychological therapy service to clients of the Adult Mental Health Greenwich ADAPT Service and other teams when necessary or appropriate: providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
* To provide specialist psychological assessments of Greenwich ADAPT clients and other people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
* To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
* To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across the In-patient service, Community Mental Health Team and other teams where necessary or appropriate and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
* To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
* To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
* To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
* To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
* Where appropriate, to undertake holistic initial assessment of new referrals to the In-patient service, Community Mental Health and other teams within the Adult Mental Health Service
* To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multidisciplinary care.
Leadership, Teaching, training and supervision:
* To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager) up to two sessions per week [pro rata].
* To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
* To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists ensuring the trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
* To provide professional and clinical supervision of Clinical Psychologists, Trainee and Assistant Clinical Psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual pieces of work for Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
* To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, and other relevant healthcare staff, as appropriate.
* To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
* To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
* To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
* To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant/graduate psychologists
* To participate in recording information as per local policy so as to provide information about referrals and activity as needed.
* To manage the workloads of Specialist Clinical Psychologists, Assistant and Trainee Clinical Psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
Research and service evaluation
* To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the teams operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
* To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
* To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
* To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families.
Communication:
* Establish and maintain communication with people, both internally and externally to Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
* To ensure effective communication with the designated care coordinators, on routine and operational matters.
* To report on care delivery and document it in a timely manner and acceptable format.
Person Specification
* Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration. (A/I)
* Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice (through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£59,490 to £66,239 a year pro rata pa inc
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