Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
East London NHS Foundation TrustSearch for more jobs in London
Job overview
Main duties of the job
Under this preceptorship, the post holder will provide specialist psychological assessments of patients attending the Luton and Dunstable Hospital and other satellite sites.
Be responsible for the formulation and implementation of a broad range of specialist psychological treatment and/or management of patients’ mental health problems within the context of physical health, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of health psychology.
Manage, co-ordinate, provide clinical supervision to the work of CAPs, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists as appropriate.
Ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to a psychologically-based framework for the understanding and care of patients with various health conditions, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
Develop and implement evaluation of the work, and prepare reports to disseminate the work.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Participate in CPD and other developmental activities, keeping up to date with relevant psychological research and national guidance (DoH, NICE etc).