Renal Psychotherapist or Practitioner Psychologist - London, United Kingdom - King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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2 x Renal Psychotherapists or Practitioner Psychologists

Kidney disease carries a significant psychological burden. The Renal department at King's is committed to a comprehensive psychosocial offer for its patients and their carers.

Our reconfigured and well-resourced Psychosocial Team is comprised of three psychological therapists, two social workers and a mental health nurse, with input from psychiatry.

We are looking for two dynamic, driven and compassionate practitioner psychologists or fully accredited psychotherapists to join us at this exciting time as we develop a cutting-edge, holistic, and patient-centred service.

Main duties of the job

The team base is Denmark Hill, but some clinics at our satellite dialysis units across south-east London may be required (to be shared equitably by team members).

These are full-time roles, though it is possible for the hours to be condensed into four days.

Job Purpose:

To provide specialist psychological provision to adult renal patients and their families and carers, in a timely manner and tailored to clients' needs. This includes specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
To provide clinical supervision, consultation and training, as appropriate.
To undertake service evaluation, audit and research with support from the Highly Specialist Psychotherapist, Renal Psychosocial Service Lead
To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines or equivalent psychotherapy accreditation body (BACP, BABCP, or UKCP) and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved
To contribute to service and strategic developments in conjunction with the service lead.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London.

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites.

The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan.

In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible

Key Responsibilities:

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and talking therapies for adult clients in the Renal department coping with the impact and psychological consequences of long term and lifelimiting health conditions. These include, but are not limited to, adjustment and adjustmentrelated distress; coping with and adhering to demanding and lifelong treatments, like dialysis; anxiety; panic; low mood and depression; posttraumatic stress; health anxiety; altered sense of self and identity; relationship stress; loss and grief.
To provide psychological interventions and talking therapies remotely (i.e. by telephone or video call), where appropriate or necessary
To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To deliver debrief sessions, crisis intervention and reflective practice sessions to colleagues affected by emotionally distressing or traumatic situations involving patients, as appropriate

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.
To contribute to the team or service's delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of c