Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join Lambeth Crisis Plus, a repeat/high intensity user psychology service, as a highly specialist psychologist/psychotherapist within Lambeth Community Mental Health Services.
The successful applicant will use their clinical skills to support a complex range of service users and their network. They will think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of skills in working alongside others.
Key duties include:
- Working with repeat service users across Lambeth Adult Mental Health Services
- Offering time-limited interventions, including engaging highly complex service users, supporting them to reflect on their experiences of services and take a more active role in their care
- Developing specialist, trauma-informed formulations, centred around relationship to help
- Engaging with carers and family
- Co-producing multi-service/-agency crisis plans and interventions
- Consultation and liaison with teams and agencies across Lambeth
- Supporting, developing and evaluating Crisis Plus in conjunction with the Clinical Service Lead and Trust Lead for Crisis Plus
- Deputising for the Clinical Lead and representing Lambeth Crisis Plus across the directorate
- Supporting and directing the work of junior staff in the team
The service is growing and expanding across SLaM and this role also has a strong service development component, including research and evaluation, developing and refining the existing service, supporting the development of new services, liaison and joint work with senior colleagues across the directorate and Trust.
Benefits include:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave
- Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options
- Career development, including mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease, competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, keyworker housing available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands
- Counselling services, long service awards, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, childcare vouchers, staff restaurants