South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
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About the Role
We are excited to offer a psychologist post to work on our adult acute psychiatric wards. The post will join a team of 7 qualified psychologists and 5 assistant psychologists providing input to 10 wards.
Responsibilities
The job involves providing psychological input to the ward multidisciplinary team to help understand service users and plan their treatment. There will be direct work with individuals, families, and groups, as well as indirect work supporting colleagues and service development work aimed at making our wards more therapeutic.
Key Tasks
- Provide a qualified highly specialist clinical psychology or counselling psychology input to service users on a mixed gender psychiatric ward, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the acute and urgent care pathway and ward policies and procedures.
- Support and enhance the work of the multi-disciplinary team by providing advice, consultation, training, and supervision on service users’ psychological care to other members of the team, including facilitating or supervising the facilitation of reflective practice groups.
- Lead on the implementation of trauma-informed approaches to care across two admission wards.
- Utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research within the area served by the service and participate in service-related quality improvement and innovation projects.
- Take professional responsibility for attached doctoral trainee practitioner psychologists (8a role only), assistants, and/or graduate psychologists.
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Job Details
The post is established at band 8a, however, it can be taken as band 7 preceptorship posts with a pathway to transition to 8a after a minimum of 18 months.
This post will be spread across two wards at Springfield Hospital, and an assistant psychologist is attached to the post.
Important Information
- Unless expressly stated in the job advert, this role is not subject to sponsorship.
- All offers of employment are subject to evidence of the 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.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Contact Information
For further details or 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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