Assistant Psychologist Crisis Plus

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Croydon; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pay, pensions and leave

Flexible working options

Career development programmes

Car lease

Keyworker housing on selected sites

NHS discounts

Counselling services

Long service awards

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Staff restaurants

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Assistant Psychologist to support Croydon Crisis Plus, working across Croydon Adult Mental Health Services in a face-to-face role. You will help co-create multi-agency crisis plans for high-use service users, under psychologist supervision, and contribute to recovery support and service development.

The role involves comprehensive assessments, liaison with services, and participation in MDT discussions, with a strong emphasis on data

Qualifications

• Under supervision of qualified psychologists, you will develop and use a range of psychological skills including assessment and formulation.
• You will lead on the co-creation of effective multi-agency crisis plans for the highest-use service users and their care teams.

Responsibilities

• Support time-limited interventions for service users, carers, and mental health professionals to develop Anticipatory Management Plans.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of service users' histories, patterns of presentation, and crisis service use.
• Attend MDT meetings and ward rounds, contributing to multidisciplinary clinical discussions.
• Contribute to data collection, analysis, and interpretation, including qualitative and quantitative outcome data from service users and professionals.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Croydon Crisis Plus pilot, as an Assistant Psychologist within Croydon Adult Mental Health Services. The team works across services in the Croydon directorate whilst being based within the secondary care community mental health teams. Under the supervision of qualified psychologists, the successful applicant will lead on the co‑creation of effective multi‑agency crisis plans with the highest‑use service users and their care teams. The service users present with complex, sometimes challenging behaviours and acute risk in crisis. The successful applicant will develop and use a range of psychological skills including assessment and formulation, and working in a systemically‑focused approach.Main duties of the job The successful candidate will support the delivery of time‑limited interventions to service users, carers, and a range of mental health professionals to develop Anticipatory Management Plans. This will require comprehensive assessment of service users' developmental histories, patterns of presentation and use of crisis services from clinical documentation and consultation. This information will be used to develop guidance for service users, their carers, mental health and external agencies on how best future crises can be more effectively managed and to support the service user's recovery. A core part of the role is liaison with services in order to refine and further develop plans, and support services to action plans. The postholder will attend MDT meetings, ward rounds, etc and needs to be confident following and, at times contributing to, multi‑disciplinary clinical discussion. There is a strong data collection, analysis and interpretation aspect to the role. Amongst other activities, this includes the collection of qualitative and quantitative outcome data from service users and the network of professionals, and developing and maintaining a number of databases linked to the identification of HIUs. In light of the need to develop close working relationships with services and service users, this is a face to face, onsite role.

You will be based across a number of sites in Croydon, including Bethlem Royal Hospital, Croydon University Hospital and Croydon Community teams.

Some of the benefits of working for SLaM are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development,we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease,our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation,our staff benefits fromkeyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants