Practitioner Psychologist Liaison Psychology

Job summary

This is an exciting post offering psychological services for both the Adult and Older Adult Liaison Psychiatry Services. This role works clinically into the two liaison teams and be supported and managed be the Band 8b Liaison Psychologist and the Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist UHS Adult Psychology. The liaison teams operate a CORE 24 service for people over 18 years old within University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust.

You will link with departments within the hospital and the community teams as well other Psychologists who work specifically into different medical disciplines within the hospital.

Within the departments there is a keen interest in developing and sharing knowledge. We have active interests in Systemic, Acceptance and Commitment, Cognitive Analytic Therapy and EMDR therapeutic approaches. Funded training opportunities are available to all team Psychologists; recently these have included EMDR, ACT and CAT.

Main duties of the job

We have close links with Southampton University where there is an established Clinical Psychology training course and many psychologists teach on the systemic and health modules. There are also specialist courses in Health Psychology and a research group focusing on the applications of Health Psychology.

Main duties of the job:

The postholder will work with the liaison team to provide a psychological service for the team, medical colleagues and families. They will offer assessment and short term interventions to patients and supervision, consultation, and training to medical and liaison colleagues. Currently the team are linking to national projects to offer short term interventions within A & E.

At this point, there no outpatient follow-up within liaison. If the post holder wishes, there may be opportunities to pick up some therapy work either within community mental health services or health psychology.

Postholders will connect to the wider UHS Adult Psychology team and Southampton Psychology Service.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Princess Anne Hospital

Coxford Road

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 5YA

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Princess Anne Hospital

Coxford Road

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 5YA

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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