Clinical Psychologist within the Homeless Mental Health Team inGloucester inGloucester PUBLISHED 8 SEP 2024

To take an active role in promoting the psychological health and well-being of clients and carers.
Maternity Leave Cover - 6 months fixed term contract


This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly created and developing partnership team working with individuals experiencing rough sleeping and other complex health, housing and social issues.

The team currently consists of a small and friendly group of a Nurse, Occupational Therapist and administrator we are working in close partnership with P3, CGL and Adult Social Care representative. We are looking to expand our team with another Nurse, Psychologist and Psychology Assistant.

We are looking to employ individuals who would be happy working in non traditional clinical settings, creative with engagement and bring more ideas to contribute to the team development.

There will be opportunities for CPD within the Trust and we would like to develop closer working links with the Complex Emotional Needs team and Criminal Justice team. Clinical supervision for Psychology will be based with the Complex Emotional Needs team.

  • To take an Applied Psychology stance to working with individuals, teams, and organisations, in order to inform psychological ways of working within and across services.
  • To input to the partnership team for Multiple Complex Needs, including direct partners Adult Social Care (ASC) and Change Grow Live (CGL) substance misuse service.
  • To work with senior management, commissioners and partners to implement NICE guidelines NG214 ‘Integrated Health and Social Care for people experiencing homelessness’ within the Trust, the team and wider services.
  • To take an active role in promoting the psychological health and well-being of clients and carers
  • To directly provide and coordinate highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention services to individuals/ groups/organisations, using a variety of applied psychology models.
  • To work in unconventional clinical environments (e.g. rough sleeper sites, supported housing, partner agency units, in the community etc) to deliver support to individuals with complex emotional needs.
  • To work with direct partners, team, senior management, commissioners, and partners to implement NICE guidelines NG214 ‘Integrated Health and Social Care for people experiencing homelessness’ within the Trust, the team and wider services


The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.


We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.


About


The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

  • 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
  • 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
  • 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
  • 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katie Conlon Job title: Team Manager Email address: Telephone number:
Maternity Leave Cover - 6 months fixed term contract

This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly created and developing partnership team working with individuals experiencing rough sleeping and other complex health, housing and social issues.

The team currently consists of a small and friendly group of a Nurse, Occupational Therapist and administrator we are working in close partnership with P3, CGL and Adult Social Care representative. We are looking to expand our team with another Nurse, Psychologist and Psychology Assistant.

We are looking to employ individuals who would be happy working in non traditional clinical settings, creative with engagement and bring more ideas to contribute to the team development.

There will be opportunities for CPD within the Trust and we would like to develop closer working links with the Complex Emotional Needs team and Criminal Justice team. Clinical supervision for Psychology will be based with the Complex Emotional Needs team.

  • To take an Applied Psychology stance to working with individuals, teams, and organisations, in order to inform psychological ways of working within and across services.
  • To input to the partnership team for Multiple Complex Needs, including direct partners Adult Social Care (ASC) and Change Grow Live (CGL) substance misuse service.
  • To work with senior management, commissioners and partners to implement NICE guidelines NG214 ‘Integrated Health and Social Care for people experiencing homelessness’ within the Trust, the team and wider services.
  • To take an active role in promoting the psychological health and well-being of clients and carers
  • To directly provide and coordinate highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention services to individuals/ groups/organisations, using a variety of applied psychology models.
  • To work in unconventional clinical environments (e.g. rough sleeper sites, supported housing, partner agency units, in the community etc) to deliver support to individuals with complex emotional needs.
  • To work with direct partners, team, senior management, commissioners, and partners to implement NICE guidelines NG214 ‘Integrated Health and Social Care for people experiencing homelessness’ within the Trust, the team and wider services


The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

About

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

  • 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
  • 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
  • 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
  • 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katie Conlon Job title: Team Manager Email address: Telephone number:


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