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Location
Enfield, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality trauma-informed specialist psychology service within the urgent care pathway. This will involve undertaking psychological assessments; evidence based short term psychological interventions, and contribute to the ward based therapeutic group work program and to provide individual and group supervision within multi-disciplinary teams. The post-holder will be responsible for providing psychological formulation and consultation to contribute to the care plans and management of service users currently being treated on the wards. As a team member both of the psychological therapies acute/urgent care teams and the ward MDT, the post-holder will be expected to work collaboratively, and with MDT members including the provision of joint assessments with Consultant Psychiatrists and joint working with other members of the team. The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. The post-holder will supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by attached doctoral trainees and supervise psychologically driven treatment interventions by other members of the MDT. The post-holder will provide training, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team, who provide psychologically based care and treatment. The post-holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within the service/team. The post-holder will utilize skills for research, quality improvement and audit and contribute to policy and service development, in relation to the Psychological Therapies provision and in collaboration with the borough specific urgent care services. The post-holder will support the Acute and CRHTT Lead in implementing post-incident support and reflective practice.
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Salary
£56.39k - £62.79k per annum
