Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

This role is for a dynamic clinical psychologist with experience in acute care, to work within the HTT team and crisis pathway. This role will involve working with other psychological professionals and MDT to ensure a systematic provision of a highly specialist, psychology service which meet key objectives around preventing admissions, supporting service users and families through a flexible approach as well as supporting the development of trauma informed practices which enhance service user experience and improved outcomes.

Main duties of the job

• Specialist assessments, formulations and interventions, which include individual, group and family work where needed.
• Facilitate Case Formulation and Reflective Practice for a specific team within Newham.
• Clinically supervising assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, other psychological therapy staff and non-psychological staff where appropriate.
• Apply the principles of recovery to empower service users through a variety of psychological interventions taking into account a range of systemic impact on mental health
• Working with diverse communities with different cultural/spiritual beliefs. This includes working with interpreters where required.
• Develop working partnerships with other services across Newham (e.g Early Intervention, Acute, community teams) as well develop links with third sector organisations.
• Undertake clinical audit and quality improvement tasks to improve outcome and enhance service user experience.
• Engage in teaching, training and ongoing training as required

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for providing psychological interventions directly and indirectly to individuals in the context of an MDT approach. It will provide input into the Home Treatment Team and will be flexible to work with service users in their homes. It will include addressing the needs of service users with physical and mental health conditions, including substance misuse, dementia/delirium, learning disabilities and medically unexplained symptoms. Opportunities for teaching, consultation and case formulation to multi-disciplinary teams within the Crisis Pathway will be an important part of the role as will be the supervision of doctoral trainees, psychology assistants and other professionals. The post holder will work closely with MDT team across the crisis pathway as well as lead psychologists supporting clinical leadership within the complex emotional needs pathway and psychosis pathway.