Psychological Practitioner / Psychological Therapist inSouthampton inSouthampton PUBLISHED MON 25 NOV 2024

The Southampton Acute and Crisis Psychology Team is excited to be offering a fixed term psychological practitioner / therapist post, and we are seeking to recruit an accredited CBT, MBT or CAT therapist to join our team.

Antelope House is a modern acute mental health inpatient and psychiatric intensive care unit, as well as housing the Southampton Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). The Psychology Team offers high quality, recovery focused care to adults with a range of mental health needs, across inpatient and crisis services. We work trans-diagnostically with a range of presentations, including psychosis, trauma, and relational difficulties. We are 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 successful applicant will have experience in providing assessments, formulation, and adapted brief MBT, CAT or CBT for patients in the acute phase of their illness. Knowledge of and training in Comprehend, Cope and Connect (CCC) will be an integral part of the role and the successful candidate will be expected to engage in this training.

This is a fixed term post for 12 months. We would also be happy to consider offering this as a secondment to a suitable candidate.

To provide assessment and formulation for people referred to the team.

To offer evidence based brief psychological group and/or individual interventions where appropriate.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessing, treating and contributing to recommendations for care/discharge plans for patients whose problems may require longer term psychological treatment.

To communicate to patients in a highly skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment including formulations of the individual's difficulties and the basis for treatment recommendations.

To conduct detailed risk assessments and to contribute to the collaborative and multi-professional assessment and management of risks posed by individuals.

To contribute to psychological understanding and care for the benefit of all patients of the service across all settings and agencies serving the patient group.

To be directly involved in the delivery of teaching, training and continuing professional development both within the service, the Trust and via appropriate local academic institutions.

To deliver clinical supervision to service staff in relation to CCC, within own levels of competence and in accordance with professional practice guidelines.

Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: HIOW ICB, HIOW Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

About us

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. 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.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.