Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

South West London and St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust; Teddington; Sur place; GBP 45 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working

Résumé du poste

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust in Twickenham seeks a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Richmond Psychology & Psychotherapies service. You will provide specialist assessments and evidence-based therapies to adults with complex mental health needs, including psychosis, bipolar and personality disorders, in a supportive MDT setting.

You will also contribute to audits, service development and research, and provide supervision, consultation and training to

Qualifications

• Registered/eligible clinical or counselling psychologist with NHS experience.
• Experience providing supervision, consultation and training to clinicians.
• Experience delivering evidence-based therapies for complex mental health conditions.

Responsabilités

• Attend multidisciplinary meetings and provide supervision, consultation and training to MDT clinicians.
• Deliver evidence-based psychological therapies for psychosis, bipolar, personality disorders and co-morbid conditions.
• Lead audits, policy and service development research within the team area.

Connaissances

Clinical psychology

Supervision

Consultation

Research

Description du poste

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.

We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' however we aim to be 'outstanding'.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".

When you join us, you'll be part of something special - an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

Are you a compassionate Clinical or Counselling Psychologist looking to make a meaningful impact in your community? Join us in a role where you'll be valued, supported, and inspired to grow. We are looking for an experienced and dedicated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Richmond Psychology & Psychotherapies service based in the Twickenham Integrated Recovery Hub.

If you are passionate about working towards improving services, are keen to have your voice heard and want to bring more innovation and creativity to your work, then this role would be ideal for you. If you join our team, you can make a real difference in the lives of those struggling with complex mental health challenges, providing essential support to foster recovery and well-being.

Main duties of the job

The role is dynamic and will require you to attend multidisciplinary meetings and to offer supervision, consultation, and training to clinicians within the wider MDT team.

You will contribute to the delivery of evidence-based psychological therapies for severe and enduring mental health conditions, including psychosis & bipolar, personality disorders, and complex mood, anxiety disorders & PTSD. We value innovative practices to support our service users, continually evolving to meet the needs of our community.

You will utilise your research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Agile and flexible working:

We understand the importance of work-life balance and are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements to help our team thrive both personally and professionally. As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible and agile working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.

Working for our organisation

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.

About our locations:

Twickenham (Maddison Centre)

Unless expressly stated in the job advert the 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients 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 client's care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's 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 teams employed individually 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