Description
This is a great opportunity for a clinical or counselling psychologist to provide psychology input to the Kingston Hospital Psychiatric Liaison Service.
The role involves direct assessments and interventions with service users, as well as indirect work to support the whole team in gaining a psychological perspective when formulating and planning interventions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Conducting direct work with service users, including assessments, formulations, crisis planning, and care planning
- Providing brief psychological interventions to address difficulties such as emotion regulation and relapse prevention
- Contributing to team meetings to communicate a psychology perspective in planning care
- Engaging with other stakeholders to establish treatment needs when discharged from the Liaison team
- Supporting people presenting in A&E with mental health crises and working with inpatients who have co-occurring mental health difficulties
- Providing regular reflective practice, teaching, and case formulations to the team
- Opportunity for supervision of clinical psychology trainees
The salary for this role is £63,665 to £70,887 a year pro rata per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAs.
The trust offers flexible working, career development, and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which employees and their careers can thrive.