Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term contract for 12 months with option to extend)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 333-G-HM-0660
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Riverside Centre, Hillingdon Hospital
- Town
- Uxbridge
- Salary
- £32,720 - £39,769 per annum pro rata inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist - Hillingdon Acute Mental Health Services
Band 5
Job overview
We are looking to employ an Assistant Psychologist to work on our female acute inpatient mental health ward in the Riverside Centre, Uxbridge. Uxbridge is on the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines and accessible from London as well as areas west of London.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will join an established inpatient psychology team consisting of a consultant clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and assistant psychologists. They will support in providing psychological input into the female acute mental health inpatient ward at Hillingdon as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This will include running therapy groups on the ward, seeing inpatients for individual sessions as well as attendance at Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings. The post holder will play a key role in helping to develop psychological formulations for all people admitted onto the wards and using these formulations to inform the approach the MDT takes in it’s care and treatment of people while they are on the ward.
The psychology team are taking a lead in implementing trauma informed approaches (TIA) to inpatients care. The post holder will receive training in these approaches and will support the continued implementation of TIA on the wards. We have close connections with other teams implementing TIA across CNWL, and meet regularly to share ideas and experiences and to enhance implementation across sites.
Working for our organisation
Psychological therapies are highly valued by the wider MDTs here, and there is a supportive culture in the teams and the psychological therapy service. You will attend a weekly psychology meeting, attended by the wider adult mental health psychology team, trainee and assistant psychologists, where complex cases across the service are discussed, with an emphasis on assessment.
The post holder will receive training in all areas of his/her work as well as receive regular clinical supervision by an appropriately qualified Clinical Psychologist. It is a great job for anyone wanting to go on to train as a clinical psychologist. We offer placements to all 3 London doctoral courses.
Access to a car is not essential.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see full job description for further information**
Clinical
- To undertake, under the clinical supervision of a qualified psychologist, protocol based psychological assessments of patients applying psychological, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patient’s care
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, clinically supervised by a qualified psychologist.
- To undertake joint assessments with MDT staff as required.
- To undertake appropriate tasks delegated by the MDTs agreed with the postholders supervisor.
- To assist with the provision of enhanced support including providing time limited practical, psychological and emotional support to clients at times of increased need.
- To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings, reporting all identified adverse risks to clients’ recovery.
- To assist, under the direct supervision of a qualified psychologist, in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
- To assist with audits reviewing the quality of clinical practice and care pathways within all parts of the Hillingdon Mental Health Service.
- Help promote team cohesiveness, multidisciplinary working and at all times work collaboratively with colleagues in all parts of the Trust and other agencies to achieve healthy and effective working relationships and care provision
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Psychology
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working in a healthcare setting
- Experience of working with people with complex mental health problems and/or other disabilities
- Experience of using psychological assessments, formulations, risk assessments and care planning
- Experience of working with people who have to potential to become aggressive and being able to respond appropriately
- Experience of MDT working and the voluntary sector.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in acute/crisis services
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- An understanding of complex needs of a person with a diagnosis of Personality Disorders/mental illness/learning disability
- An understanding of psychology applied to healthcare
- Has training and experience of audit, evaluation and research Advanced keyboard skills.
Desirable criteria
- Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis.
Knowledge/ Understanding
Essential criteria
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to this context
- An understanding of trauma/ label of personality disorder
Other Requirement
Essential criteria
- An ability to interact with people with mental health problems/ mild learning disabilities
- Ability to work with individuals with a history of violence and/or sexual offending
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team as well as independently reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- An ability to work as part of a team and maintain good relationships with colleagues
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Ability to cope with and maintain professional boundaries
- Align to Trust policies and Procedures
- Ability to meet the travel requirements for the post.
- Manage own personal safety being mindful of the potential risk of others including and managing the situation appropriately
- Ability to work within a sometimes demanding environment with patients with complex needs and being non-judgemental while
- Being able to manage your personal wellbeing through supervision etc
- Able to adapt to a situation as it arises and respond in an appropriate manner
Desirable criteria
- A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Paul Osler
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01895 485608
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