Job Opportunity: Assistant Psychologist - Croydon Crisis Plus Pilot

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Croydon Crisis Plus pilot, as an Assistant Psychologist within Croydon Adult Mental Health Services. The team works across services in the Croydon directorate whilst being based within the secondary care community mental health teams.

Responsibilities

Under the supervision of qualified psychologists, the successful applicant will lead on the co-creation of effective multi-agency crisis plans with the highest-use service users and their care teams. The service users present with complex, sometimes challenging behaviours and acute risk in crisis. The successful applicant will develop and use a range of psychological skills including assessment and formulation, and working in a systemically-focused approach.

• Support the delivery of time-limited interventions to service users, carers, and a range of mental health professionals to develop Anticipatory Management Plans.
• Comprehensive assessment of service users’ developmental histories, patterns of presentation and use of crisis services from clinical documentation and consultation.
• Develop guidance for service users, their carers, mental health and external agencies on how best future crises can be more effectively managed and to support the service user’s recovery.
• Liaison with services in order to refine and further develop plans, and support services to action plans.
• Attend MDT meetings, ward rounds, etc and be confident following and, at times contributing to, multi-disciplinary clinical discussion.
• Strong data collection, analysis and interpretation aspect to the role, including the collection of qualitative and quantitative outcome data from service users and the network of professionals, and developing and maintaining a number of databases linked to the identification of HIUs.