Principal Clinical & Counselling Psychologist

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in London seeks a Principal/Counselling Psychologist for the Newham Psychiatric Liaison Service. This role involves delivering specialist psychological input, conducting assessments, and providing clinical support within a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will contribute to service development and provide training and supervision. This position is a fixed-term/secondment of 12 months at 0.8 WTE, focused on improving the mental health journey for patients in complex situations.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing specialist psychological input.
• Ability to work as a senior member within a multidisciplinary team.
• Skills in training and supervision of colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist psychological input to the Core 24 Psychiatric Liaison Service.
• Conduct systematic clinical psychological assessments and brief interventions.
• Provide consultation and care planning as part of the MDT.

Job description

Overview

There is an exciting role for a Principal/Counselling Psychologist in Newham Psychiatric Liaison Service (PLS). The Principal Psychologist will deliver specialist psychological input and be part of the operational leadership of wider crisis pathway. The PLS provides specialist multidisciplinary assessment and signposting for people presenting with complex mental health difficulties attending at Accident and Emergency and in the acute hospital setting.

The principal psychologist will work as a senior member of the services to provide direct psychological input for service users alongside training, support, supervision and formulation with colleagues to promote psychologically-informed conceptualisation and intervention across the system, including colleagues in A&E and the acute hospital.

This role is being offered 0.8 WTE for a fixed term/secondment of 12 months.

This post is responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of specialist psychological input to the Core 24 Psychiatric Liaison Service (PLS). The PLS service provides specialist multidisciplinary assessment and management and signposting for people presenting with complex mental health difficulties attending at Accident and Emergency and in the acute hospital setting.

The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy, research and quality improvement, and contribute strongly to strategic service development for PLS.

Key Roles of the Job

1. Specialist psychological input to the Core 24 Psychiatric Liaison Service (PLS)
2. Direct clinical work as part of the MDT - work as a senior member of the services to provide systematic specialist clinical psychological assessment, formulation, brief interventions, consultation and care planning as part of the multidisciplinary team.
3. Indirect work (training, supervision and formulation) with colleagues.
4. Being part of operational leadership of PLS and wider crisis pathway

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.