Assistant Psychologist London, England
Job description
The successful candidate will assist with the everyday running of the pain service and its therapy interventions. This will include 1; 1 assessment and supervised interventions, co-facilitating group work, meetings, in service training, managing the spinal cord stimulator data base and other duties as required to facilitate the everyday working of the department.
Under supervision, support the delivery of group based interventions, this may include delivering sessions. There is also scope for some 1:1 supervised interventions.
The work will involve building good working relationships with the multi-disciplinary team who are also involved in delivering the wide variety of interventions that we offer at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. The post holder will also be expected to attend team meetings and away events.
About the Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals,
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.
Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an
‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.
We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
The successful candidate will assist with the everyday running of the pain service and its therapy interventions. This will include 1; 1 assessment and supervised interventions, co-facilitating group work, meetings, in service training, managing the spinal cord stimulator data base and other duties as required to facilitate the everyday working of the department.
