Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust; Staines-upon-Thames; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust invites applications for a clinical or counselling psychologist to support the Kingston Hospital Psychiatric Liaison Service. The post involves direct assessments, formulations and brief interventions with service users, alongside indirect work to inform care planning across the team.

You will work with patients presenting in mental health crisis and alongside other hospital staff to develop integrated pathways.

Qualifications

• Registered clinical psychologist with HCPC
• Experience in psychological assessments and formulations
• Experience in liaison psychiatry or inpatient settings

Responsibilities

• Conduct direct assessments and psychological interventions
• Provide case formulations and treatment planning
• Deliver brief interventions (e.g. emotion regulation, relapse prevention)
• Participate in team meetings, provide psychology perspective in care planning
• Supervise clinical psychology trainees
• Support A&E responses to mental health crises
• Collaborate with psychiatrists and nurses to develop team approach

Skills

Clinical psychology

Counselling psychology

Direct assessment

Crisis intervention

Team collaboration

Education

DClinPsy / Doctorate in Psychology

Tools

Psychometrics

Job description

A great opportunity for a clinical or counselling psychologist to provide psychology input to the Kingston 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.

• A great opportunity for a clinical or counselling psychologist provide psychology input to the Kingston 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

• A great opportunity for a clinical or counselling psychologist provide psychology input to the Kingston 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

• 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-ocurring 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.
• 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.
• Clinical work will include supporting people presenting in A&E with mental health crisis including helping to establish pathways for frequent attenders. You will also work with people across the range of physical health wards in the hospital who have comorbid mental health
• Team work: Supporting the team more generally through provision of regular reflective practice, teaching and case formulations.
• Opportunity for supervision of clinical psychology trainee.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

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 as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Caroline Lekuru Job title: Clinical Service Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02035131654