Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist

Role description

Job summary

We are seeking a team member for our Adult Mental Health Crisis and Inpatient Pathway.

Would you like to join us as a full time permanent band 7 to 8a development role as a clinical or counselling psychologist? We are ideally looking for someone with prior experience of working within a hospital environment supporting adults with trauma, severe MH difficulties and complex needs.

This is an opportunity to work alongside other psychologists and assistant psychologists with the support of a senior psychologist within a flexible hub model whilst retaining a main base,ward identity and presence, which would be Newbridges 18 bedded male inpatient treatment unit.

The role involves working in your main ward, assessment and treatment wards as well as crisis pathway.

You will provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation to help people as they enter and leave our service with opportunity to finish short term pieces of work in the community if necessary and liaison with wider services to provide a consistent, safe, trauma informed patient pathway. You will support teams through reflective practice, team formulations and providing supervision, consultation and specialist psychological advice

Working alongside the Principal Psychologist for the inpatient services, the postholder will contribute to teaching, service development, quality improvement and service evaluation, embedding evidence-based and psychologically informed approaches throughout the Inpatient Services.

Main duties of the job

Delivering systematic provision of specialist psychological assessments, joint assessments, formulation, care planning and individual/ group interventions within the inpatient setting, by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions and practice.

Working autonomously and within a supportive team, you will provide clinical guidance and advice with evidence based and bespoke psychological care to the service users.

To contribute to the planning and organisation of inpatient services.

To provide clinical supervision to assistants and to offer advice and consultation on service users' psychological care and risk management to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers.

To engage in research, audit, service evaluations, service developments and quality improvement initiatives.

To provide support for staff development including training, group supervision, team formulation sessions, reflective practice and to play an active role within the MDT meetings.

Staying connected to your colleagues professionally and ensuring you are supported through regular attendance at Inpatient Psychology Hub meetings, AMH Specialty meetings, Trustwide Psychology CPD days, CPD, SIGs, group supervision, your clinical, managerial and professional supervision.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our websiteWe are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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