Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist - Weight Management Services inShrewsbury inShrewsbury PUBLISHED
FRI 13 DEC 2024
Key responsibilities include conducting specialist assessments using various psychometric tests and clinical interviews, implementing evidence-based psychological interventions, and formulating treatment plans tailored to individual needs. The role also requires ongoing evaluation of treatment outcomes and consideration of complex psychological factors influencing patients' conditions, ultimately aiming to reduce referrals for bariatric surgery through effective psychological support.
MPFT are delighted to offer this opportunity to develop a Psychology Service into Specialist Weight Management Services (SWMS) at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals (SaTH). SWMS offers a service for adults in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, who have a BMI of 40 or more or 35 with co-morbidities, who have previously failed to achieve a healthy weight with GP support. An integral part of this service requires the provision of Psychology support to those patients identified has having psychological needs.
The Counselling/Clinical Psychologist's role will be to provide focused psychological and behavioural change support. In addition, to prepare those patients who are considering progression to bariatric surgery and provide post-operative support.
The Psychologist will also provide psychological advice and support to the consultant surgeons and the mental health dietician, and be an integral part of the MDT.
o To provide psychological support to the SWMS as part of the SaTH multidisciplinary bariatric teamo To provide psychological support to patients who are identified as having psychological needs relating to their obesityo To support the reduction in the number of patients referred for bariatric surgery due to failure to achieve meaningful weight loss
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- To provide specialist assessment of adults within Specialist Weight Management Services (SWMS) utilising information from a range of standardised psychometric tests, case history and clinical interview and integrating it into a formulation of the client and the psychosocial environment drawing on a range of psychological perspectives.
- To undertake a range of evidenced-based psychological interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and the ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients condition, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients difficulties, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To evaluate and make specialist decisions about psychological treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group in the context of bariatric surgery.
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