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Location

Tower Hamlets, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

This role represents an innovative integrated model of care within Tower Hamlets Community Health Services. We are seeking a highly motivated and curious HCPC registered Psychologist with an interest and openness to working within clinical health psychology and offering psychological interventions to people, in their homes/ community settings.

There is scope to work with a range of clinical presentations including medically-unexplained, chronic pain, adjustment and loss, and trauma. The role affords the opportunity to work in partnership with staff teams to deliver psychologically and trauma informed care.

The post holder will be part of two rehabilitation teams comprising of occupational therapists, physiotherapist, rehab support workers, and nurses. The teams, Reablement and Admission Avoidance & Discharge Service, provide skilled rehabilitation for individuals who have deteriorated in their health and require high levels of care often within the context of underlying emotional distress and disengagement.

This new psychology role represents the integration of psychological knowledge and skills within physical rehabilitation and seeks to increase self-management and independence for individuals who have been discharged from hospital. An integrative therapeutic approach is welcomed for both direct and in-direct clinical work; systemic thinking is especially valued alongside cognitive-behavioural and solution-focused ways of working.

 Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist
psychological interventions for individual service users, carers
and groups, employed singly and in combination, adjusting and
refining psychological formulations as practice and experience
demand, and drawing upon different explanatory models to
maintain a number of provisional hypotheses.
 Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options and
care planning taking into account both theoretical and
therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning
historical, development and cultural processes and systems
which have shaped the individual, family or group.
 Be responsible for providing and receiving highly complex,
sensitive, distressing and emotional information in relation to
mental and physical health issues, where there are often
difficulties in terms of acceptance or understanding.
 Communicate across language and cultural barriers, including
working for sustained periods of time by communicating with
patients, carers or groups through professional interpreters or
advocates
 Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on
clinical work and communicating, in a skilled and sensitive
manner, complex clinical information (including assessment,
formulation, treatment plans and progress) to a variety of
recipients (e.g. service users, carers, other professionals,
formal panels, statutory and voluntary organisations) orally, in
writing and electronically.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

To work closely with teams to identify and offer assessment of service users who present with psychosocial features that create challenges for rehab engagement and care planning.

To implement complex psychosocial and multi-modal assessments of health including psychiatric, psychological, cognitive, social, physical and systemic factors that may contribute to the management of the individual’s health.

The systematic provision of a high quality specialist psychology offer to the Reablement and Admission Avoidance and Discharge Service, including specialised joint assessments and the development and delivery of Trauma Care informed ways of working.

To be responsible for the day to day management of psychological provision to these teams

To work closely with the clinical leads and staff team to identify key areas of challenge

To operate as an integrated member of the team, placing the service user at the center of service planning and delivery.

To bring a psychological perspective to the work of the team. To develop and support the psychosocial work of other staff through teaching, training supervision and consultation.

To provide psychosocial assessment, formulation and interventions to patients.

To promote and facilitate psychological capability within the team and to promote psychosocial interventions within the teams.

To provide specialist advice to the teams and voluntary sector agencies concerning the assessment, treatment and management of patients accessing team.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.

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).

Follow defined practices and procedures under the management and co-ordination of a senior psychologist.

This advert closes on Thursday 22 Feb 2024

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