Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

We are very happy to be recruiting for this Band 8a Psychologist post working in our Liaison Mental Health Teams as part of our exciting redevelopment of psychology in the Urgent Care Pathway.

The successful applicant will work alongside a psychologically minded team of Nurses, Medics and Allied Health Professionals at our acute hospitals in Shropshire, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

It is envisaged that the post will entail working both directly and indirectly with service users presenting in the acute hospital with primary or concurrent mental health difficulties.  You will be carrying out and supervising assessment, formulation and brief intervention work with individuals and / or their systems.  The post will also entail significant elements of consultation, reflective practice, staff well-being, team formulation and training.

This post will maintain close links with other psychology colleagues within the urgent care pathway (Inpatients, Crisis / Home treatment and Liaison Mental Health teams).  Across the pathway we will have 4 Practitioner Psychologists, Trainee Associate Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists with the possibility of further expansion in the future.

MPFT will offer a welcome bonus of 10% of first year salary- at 50% on commencement of employment and 50% following 12 months employment.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist clinical psychology service within the Urgent Care service, to adults their families or carers. To work with clients alone at the team base or other care environments, or at their home as necessary.
• To communicate highly complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues.
• To be responsible for conducting psychological interviews, deriving information from self-report measures, rating scales, psychometrics (where necessary), direct and indirect structured observations and semi- structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, interpreting complex data and giving feedback effectively and with sensitively.
• To be skilled in risk assessment and management. The post holder will be expected to maintain high professional levels of clinical judgement and application of complex skills at all times.
• Following assessment, to provide expert formulation and psychological interventions to service users with a range of mental health problems.
• To formulate and implement plans for formal psychological intervention and/or management of a client’s psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and job specification

Please contact Dr. Neil Jones Consultant Clinical Psychologist or Hope Lloyd, Clinical Matron in the Urgent Care pathway for further information or an informal chat about this post.

Email:

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Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.