8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Overview

In this role you apply psychological approaches within two adult inpatient wards to foster a compassionate, safe and therapeutic culture. You work within the Newham Acute Psychology Service, collaborating with MDTs to shape psychology provision on wards and across the service. You will deliver direct patient interventions and contribute to staff development and service improvement. The position offers opportunities for leadership, research collaboration and innovative practice in a supportive NHS setting.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working
• hybrid working
• job share options
• CPD opportunities
• staff development
• possible remote work components

Responsibilities

• Deliver direct psychological interventions with patients in group, individual and family sessions
• Provide staff support, create team formulations, reflective spaces and training
• Lead or contribute to evaluation and quality improvement (QI) across the service
• Plan, prioritise and organise workload to move toward a compassionate, safe, therapeutic culture
• Support discharge planning and interface with community services, including home visits when needed

Key requirements

• Post-qualification experience as a practitioner psychologist or equivalent
• Experience with a wide variety of client groups across life span and settings, handling distress, abuse risk, and high-emotion situations
• Experience in teaching, training and/or professional/clinical supervision
• Experience as a qualified psychologist working in multidisciplinary settings and contributing a psychological perspective to teams
• Popular but not mandatory: experience in inpatient settings, service development, and cultural context adaptation (Desirable)

• enthusiasm and creativity in inpatient service delivery
• ability to work under organisational stress and support others
• respectful, collaborative communication with service users, families and professionals
• MDT collaboration in mental health
• inpatient psychological practice
• quality improvement

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