Highly Specialist Senior Counselling OR Clinical Psychologist inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 25 OCT 2024
East London NHS Foundation Trust rd4M0yvA
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Highly Specialist Senior Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 8a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to provide psychological expertise in the Newham Home Treatment and Crisis Service. The successful applicant will have an interest in working with adult service users in times of crisis and be passionate about promoting psychological thinking and practice throughout the multidisciplinary team. Newham is a vibrant, multicultural borough and the successful post holder should be committed to promoting inclusive ways of working.
The post holder will be linked in with the wider psychology team in the borough and the trust wide crisis psychologists, with opportunities for CPD integrated into the role.
Job Summary: Be a member of the Home Treatment Team supporting service users with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
Be responsible and accountable for the direct provision of specialist psychology service, including specialised assessments, formulations and interventions covering the spectrum of mental health difficulties including severe and enduring mental illness, personality disorder, learning disability, and mental health crisis work. Interventions draw on a broad theoretical base and be tailored to the specific needs of the service user. A range of 1:1, couple, family and group interventions are provided. Contribute to the provision of a specialist psychological perspective for the work of the team. Provide highly specialist psychological advice to other members of the team. Facilitate Case Formulation and Reflective Practice in teams.
Clinically supervise and co-ordinate the work of assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, other psychological therapy staff and non-psychological staff where appropriate.
Develop and support the psychological work of other staff groups through teaching, training, clinical supervision and case consultation. Contribute to the provision of a highly specialist psychological input to SU with severe, complex and enduring mental health difficulties across settings, directly and indirectly, by engaging in interface work. Take the lead for a specified area for interface work as required.
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Highly Specialist Senior Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 8a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to provide psychological expertise in the Newham Home Treatment and Crisis Service. The successful applicant will have an interest in working with adult service users in times of crisis and be passionate about promoting psychological thinking and practice throughout the multidisciplinary team. Newham is a vibrant, multicultural borough and the successful post holder should be committed to promoting inclusive ways of working.
The post holder will be linked in with the wider psychology team in the borough and the trust wide crisis psychologists, with opportunities for CPD integrated into the role.
Job Summary: Be a member of the Home Treatment Team supporting service users with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
Be responsible and accountable for the direct provision of specialist psychology service, including specialised assessments, formulations and interventions covering the spectrum of mental health difficulties including severe and enduring mental illness, personality disorder, learning disability, and mental health crisis work. Interventions draw on a broad theoretical base and be tailored to the specific needs of the service user. A range of 1:1, couple, family and group interventions are provided. Contribute to the provision of a specialist psychological perspective for the work of the team. Provide highly specialist psychological advice to other members of the team. Facilitate Case Formulation and Reflective Practice in teams.
Clinically supervise and co-ordinate the work of assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, other psychological therapy staff and non-psychological staff where appropriate.
Develop and support the psychological work of other staff groups through teaching, training, clinical supervision and case consultation. Contribute to the provision of a highly specialist psychological input to SU with severe, complex and enduring mental health difficulties across settings, directly and indirectly, by engaging in interface work. Take the lead for a specified area for interface work as required.
About us
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
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