Psychological Therapist - Newport, United Kingdom - Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Isle of Wight NHS Trust
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Newport, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We are recruiting for a Psychological Therapist who wish to join our team You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care.


The post holder will join other Psychologists and Psychological Therapists in providing assessment, formulation, individual and group interventions, and consultation using a range of therapeutic approaches including CBT, DBT and EMDR.

The post holder will have opportunities to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research. The post holder will be expected to carry out psychometric assessments and provide specialist advice as appropriate.


You will offer advice and consultation on service user's psychological care to non-psychological therapy colleagues, as well as to other non-professional carers and workers of other agencies where appropriate.


We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are C ompassion, A ccountable, R espect and E veryone counts.

Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.


We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.


Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population.

Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.


This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.


We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight.

Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust - Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - to be formed by April 2024.


People employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust on 31 March 2024, will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 April 2024.


The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes.

The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.


To provide evidence based psychological therapy to clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.


To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.


To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into
account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the
assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by CBT-based standard care plans.

To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other
professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
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