Clinical/Counselling Psychologist London, England
Job description
Everybody says that they have an exciting opportunity for you but we think we actually do.
Whilst this is a part time post there are additional sessions available in other areas of the service if they are required.
Preston House is a newly furbished 8 bedded intensive rehabilitation unit, at the Kingswood Centre in Brent, This is a new service aimed at bridging the gap for those people who fall between acute and mental health rehabilitation services. The service will be aimed at ensuring that people’s mental health is optimised and that the care in the community is available to support them following discharge.
Individuals on the unit will be offered an intensive schedule of activities aimed at social, psychological, functional, and symptomatic recovery aimed at resilience building, in preparation for sustainable community tenure.
The clinical tasks will include timely assessment of psychological needs, followed by the direct or indirect provision of targeted and effective interventions to help individuals make the transition to community living, smoothly.
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To provide a specialist clinical psychology service to clients on Preston House Rehabilitation unit, offering highly specialist psychological assessment and individual and group therapy (as part of the MDT rehabilitation programme), at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for research, audit, policy and service development as well as offer support to management within these units as required and agreed. To represent Preston House Rehabilitation Unit regarding psychology matters, as required.
We are the largest NHS provider of inpatient rehabilitation services. Mental Health Rehabilitation Services are an inpatient facility for adults with complex mental health needs who require safe continuing care within a rehabilitation setting. Our wards include High Dependency Units, a Managed Access Unit, and step-down to community inpatient wards as well as the new intensive rehabilitation ward. Psychologists are fully integrated members of the multidisciplinary team and offer intensive engagement work and recovery-orientated interventions to people with complex care needs who use the service. The multidisciplinary team includes Psychiatrists, Nursing Staff and Support Workers, Art, Music and Dance Movement Psychotherapists, and Occupational Therapists.
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
10. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
