South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
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A Great Opportunity for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Provide psychology input to the Kingston Hospital Psychiatric Liaison Service.
About the Role
This is a varied role with opportunities to use your skills in direct assessments and interventions with service users, as well as indirect work to support the whole team in gaining a psychological perspective when formulating and planning interventions.
Responsibilities
- You will have a wide breadth of work, including working with people presenting to hospital due to mental health crisis, as well as supporting other hospital inpatients who have co-occurring mental health difficulties.
- You will work alongside other professionals including psychiatrists and nurses, helping to develop the whole team approach to managing their cases.
- You will have strong links with the SWLSGT Acute & Urgent care Psychology team.
The Service
The Kingston Liaison Psychiatry Service provides a comprehensive specialist service to patients, clinicians and carers on the Kingston Hospital site and within the Kingston Hospital Emergency Department. You will be responsible for the delivery of a specialised psychology service providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
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Other Responsibilities
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- To provide clinical and professional supervision to trainees undertaking Doctoral training.
- To undertake service development within own area of practice.
Important Notice
Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
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’.
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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.
Join Our Team
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: James Friswell
- Job Title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email Address: James.Friswell@swlstg.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07548800356
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