Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist inBethnal Green inBethnal Green PUBLISHED
TUE 21 JAN 2025
East London NHS Foundation Trust rd4M0yvA
Key responsibilities include setting up and reviewing care plans, engaging in co-production with service users, offering training and education, and conducting comprehensive assessments, including risk formulation. The role also involves promoting the needs of service users while providing a safe and effective response to urgent community mental health needs, including support for relatives and caregivers. This position is designed to create a compassionate and empathetic care environment that actively addresses the barriers to mental health support.
This is an exciting opportunity for a newly or recently qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is keen to take on the challenges of working in a new role in a diverse borough with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and with clients from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The post holder will be expected to work alongside other Psychologists, including a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who will also provide supervision.
This is a fixed term Psychology role within Tower Hamlets Community 24/7 service pilot. The pilot ensures delivery of high quality, modern, patient-centered services. This is a pilot project aimed to establish and test out a new model of care that breaks down current barriers to care, is nonrestrictive, co-produced, culturally sensitive and accessible. The service will run 24hrs a day, 7 days a week for people residing in the catchment area offering open access to a range of psycho-social- medical Interventions at every stage of their wellness journey, this includes short term Hospitality stays for those in crisis, and community based offers that are embedded in the neighbourhood.
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The role involves, as part of a Multi-Disciplinary team:
Setting up, implementing and reviewing appropriate care plans and supporting and advising relatives and care givers.
Ensuring that co-production is at the core of the role
Ensuring that compassion and empathy are central to care delivery
Promoting the needs of service users with mental health needs and offering and providing training and education whenever possible.
In conjunction with the crisis pathway services, providing a safe and effective urgent community assessment and treatment response service.
Undertaking comprehensive assessments, including risk formulation, effectively and efficiently
formulate and agree crisis safety care plans and to support and advise relatives and care givers.
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