Clinical Associate in Psychology inSouthampton inSouthampton PUBLISHED
MON 7 OCT 2024
The environment at Antelope House promotes recovery-focused care for adults with various mental health challenges, emphasizing teamwork, transparency, and empathy. The role offers opportunities for direct interaction with service users, as well as consultation, supervision, and training initiatives. The Trust encourages flexible working arrangements and is committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process for all candidates.
Antelope House is a modern purpose-built acute mental health inpatient and psychiatric intensive care unit. There are 4 inpatient wards, covering male and female acute beds and a male psychiatric intensive care unit. The Acute and Crisis Psychology Service also works within the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) who support individuals in the community who are currently in need of intensive support due to their mental health.
We offer high quality, recovery focused care to adults with a range of mental health needs across inpatient and crisis services. We work transdiagnostically with a range of presentations, including psychosis, trauma and affective and relational difficulties. We have worked hard to embed the Comprehend, Cope and Connect (CCC) approach into the service and this is our primary psychological model underpinning our work. CCC is a psychology-led intervention which enables multi-professional colleagues to offer support to patients in crisis, with a focus on collaborative care planning.
The post-holder will be part of a cohesive team with a strong focus on quality improvement and service development, and we hope to find someone who shares this drive and enthusiasm. The role can be challenging, but rewarding, and our team holds values around transparency, empathy and humour to create a supportive dynamic within the service.
The Clinical Associate in Psychology will be required to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions, as a semi-autonomous practitioner under the supervision of a more senior psychologist.
A key part of the role will be in supporting the development and implementation of our group programme. There will be opportunities for direct work with service users within individual and group settings, and you will contribute to the screening and prioritisation of referrals. You will receive weekly clinical supervision from a qualified psychologist.
You will work independently according to an agreed plan and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. You will provide a specialist mental health service for patients under the Acute and Crisis Pathway. You will also work to provide consultation, supervision, training and service development within the scope of your CAP role.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working,all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone, if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team, detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
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