Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry Liason
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-6455968
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Guys and St Thomas Hospital
- Town
- Westminster
- Salary
- £66,718 - £76,271 per annum incl. of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/08/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
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Job Title: |
Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist |
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Band: |
8B |
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Hours: |
WTE 1.0 |
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Department: |
Psychiatry Liaison, |
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Location: |
St Thomas’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHST Trust, 249 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH |
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Managerially accountable to: |
Ms Nyasha Kajawu, Clinical Service Lead |
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Professionally accountable to: |
John Manley, Head of Lambeth Psychology and Psychotherapy in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
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Responsible for: |
Provision of psychological service for inpatient Psychiatry Liaison teams at St Thomas’ Hospital and older adults inpatient at Guy’s Hospital |
St Thomas’s Hospital Psychiatry Liaison team is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic psychologist to take on a senior role in providing mental health care to patients admitted to the hospital. Your role will be to support Working Age and Older Adult Psychiatry Liaison teams to provide comprehensive mental health care to patients admitted to the hospital with a variety of physical and mental health conditions. The role comprises direct and indirect work and there are many opportunities for involvement with teaching, research and strategic service development projects. One day of the week you will be based in the outpatient Psychological Medicine service,providing therapy to patients referred from a variety of specialist physical health clinics from both Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals.
Main duties of the job
As a part of a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to formulation-based care plans for patients admitted to St Thomas’s Hospital, through specialist assessments, staff consultations, brief interventions and onward referrals. The team has a reciprocal agreement for Reflective Practice facilitation with another liaison team, and there is a significant role to play in the Frequent Attenders forum, both within the hospital and pan-London. One day per week will be focused on longer-term therapeutic work within the outpatient service, working together with another band 8b psychologist. You will have an opportunity to shape your role, through contribution to various service development initiatives, research, supervision and contribution to hospital teaching programmes. The psychology team delivers regular teaching to Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and MSc courses at King’s College and offers placements to trainee psychologists and MSc students.
Working for our organisation
You will be employed by South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLAM) and working in both St Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals (Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust).
GSTT and SLAM together with King’s College Hospital NHS Trust (KCL) form King’s Health Partners network, granting our staff access to expertise of leading clinicians and academics and numerous professional development opportunities via CPD and special interest networks. You will be well supported to develop in this role through regular meetings and close links with psychologists from Psychiatry Liaison teams in SLAM and KCL, as well as have access to resources and ideas shared through a national special interest group for Psychologists in Mental Health Liaison.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Purpose:
· To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a psychological input into work of Psychiatry Liaison team and personally provide highly specialist clinical input.
· To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
· To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in St Thomas’s Hospital Psychiatry Liaison
· To contribute to multiagency Frequent Attenders meetings (trust and pan-London) with wider service stakeholders to create care plans for clients
· To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychological practitioners in St Thomas’s Psychiatry Liaison Team.
· To promote service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
Key Responsibilities:
KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
· To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychological service to St Thomas’s Psychiatry Liaison Team and to contribute to the delivery of psychological therapy to outpatients within Guy’s Hospital.
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the Psychiatry Liaison service, including clients presenting with medically unexplained symptoms, psychosis, personality disorders and challenging behaviours, at levels expected of a psychological practitioner who has achieved the equivalent of a PG Diploma-worth of post-qualification specialist development.
· To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
· To select and deliver evidence-based specialist therapeutic interventions, drawing from a spectrum of ideas and models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group.
· To promote psychological support for carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients.
KR 2 Responsibilities for team or service clinical functioning
· To facilitate Complex Cases meetings for the St Thomas Psychiatry Liaison service, promoting reflexivity and Trauma Informed Care approach.
· To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
· To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
KR 3 Policy and service development
· To implement policies and procedures in own area of work.
· To identify any aspects of Psychiatry Liaison service which could be improved and propose changes to practices or procedures that affect Psychiatry Liaison and may also affect other services.
KR 4 Care or management of resources
· To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.
· To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
· To ensure the cleanliness and safe functioning and use of equipment that will be used by clients or other persons.
· To monitor and advise clients on the safe use of materials and processes.
Please see Job description for more detailed information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent.
- Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist.
- Further training in a psychotherapy model, through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice–based learning.
- Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional body.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to practice within more than one model of psychotherapy and ability to integrate these, when working with clients with more complex presentations
- An accreditation in a psychotherapy model.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of having worked as a Band 8a in adult mental health, as a senior specialist practitioner, under supervision.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and delivering therapy in a range of adult mental health services, including working with clients with personality disorders, psychosis, and behaviours that challenge
- Experience of providing specialist supervision to psychologists (including trainees) and/or other professional groups.
- Experience of providing specialist teaching and training to psychologists and/or other professional groups.
- Experience of providing consultation to colleagues, referrers and other professional groups within own service.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in Psychiatry Liaison, medical Intensive Care Unit or clinical health psychology setting
- Experience of working with Frequent Attenders
- Experience of supporting complex teams and systems in developing and implementing care plans for behaviours that challenge
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the treatment of Axis I and Axis II disorders.
- Advanced knowledge of the theory of psychological therapy and it’s therapeutic application.
- Associated awareness of assessment and clinical psychometrics.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities.
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.
Desirable criteria
- A good understanding of models of health psychology in addition to models of psychopathology.
- Interest and experience in promoting Trauma Informed Care approach within teams
Skills
Essential criteria
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
- Consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups and sensitively managing, a number of people’s needs simultaneously within the context of therapeutic work/consultation.
- To select and administer specialist assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
- Advanced skills in professional supervision; including skills for supervision of multidisciplinary colleague
- Advanced skills in working with a number of clients and systems together, managing the highly complex emotional relationships within and between the component parts of the systems in ways, which maximise the potential for therapeutic outcomes
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings
- Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Nyasha Kajawu
- Job title
- Clinical service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07729394120
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