Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work for a dynamic Early Intervention for Psychosis team in the borough of Wandsworth, part of South West London and St Georges NHS Foundation Trust. The post is for 0.2 FTE (2 days a week). You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to provide psychological assessments and interventions to people experiencing a first episode of psychosis, including CBT and Family Interventions
There will be various training opportunities including a post-graduate diploma in CBT for psychosis and CBT informed family interventions. You will join a wider group of early intervention psychologists and CBT therapists working in EIS teams across the trust.
We have an ongoing program of development and improvement, including developing trauma informed care and improving services for minority groups.
Preceptorships will be considered (band 7 with progression to band 8a).
Main duties of the job
o To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to clients of the Wandsworth Early Intervention Service, across all sectors of care.
o Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to service users including CBTp and Family Interventions
o Offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
o To supervise trainee clinical psychologists and band 7 CBT therapists
o Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
o To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service
o The post holder will be expected to work in health, social care and other community settings (including outpatient clinics), clients' andtheir relatives' homes, inpatient and other hospital settings, and any other settings in which the client is most appropriately managed.
o We are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8 to 6, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to their clinical team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining anumber of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about 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.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
9. To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
11. To provide expertise, advice and support to all members of the treatment team to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care and to support other team Applied Psychologists in the service area, in their contribution (direct and indirect) to providing a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to all clients of the service in which they work
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to their clinical team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining anumber of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about 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.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
9. To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
11. To provide expertise, advice and support to all members of the treatment team to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care and to support other team Applied Psychologists in the service area, in their contribution (direct and indirect) to providing a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to all clients of the service in which they work
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinica/cunsellingl psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council under the appropriate domain specific title
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists / psychological therapists
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, preferably CBTp or Family Interventions.
- BABCP accreditation as practitioner and/or supervisor
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of six years, including at least 3 years post qualification experience with adults in secondary care
- Experience of supervised provision of CBTp and or Family Interventions for persons presenting with first onset psychosis
- Experience of working with a wide variety of clients and carers, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable
- Experience of professional management of qualified and prequalified clinical psychologists
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care
- Experience of representing the profession/ service at local/ Trust, regional or national level forums and contributing to strategy and service development.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies
- Knowledge of psychosocial interventions for persons with early onset psychosis and their carers
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration persons within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-totreat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis)
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies, which have an evidence base
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinica/cunsellingl psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- To be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council under the appropriate domain specific title
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists / psychological therapists
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, preferably CBTp or Family Interventions.
- BABCP accreditation as practitioner and/or supervisor
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of six years, including at least 3 years post qualification experience with adults in secondary care
- Experience of supervised provision of CBTp and or Family Interventions for persons presenting with first onset psychosis
- Experience of working with a wide variety of clients and carers, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable
- Experience of professional management of qualified and prequalified clinical psychologists
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care
- Experience of representing the profession/ service at local/ Trust, regional or national level forums and contributing to strategy and service development.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies
- Knowledge of psychosocial interventions for persons with early onset psychosis and their carers
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration persons within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-totreat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis)
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies, which have an evidence base
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
