Senior Assistant Psychologist - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Would you like to join a supportive, friendly, and innovative psychology team at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust?


You will support and complement the work of a team of Practitioner Psychologists led by a Consultant Clinical/Health Psychologist and will work alongside doctoral clinical psychology trainees, MSc health psychology trainees, and psychology undergraduates.


You will be excited about supporting our mission to be a visible, accessible, high quality service that takes a patient-centred, evidence-based, and needs-led approach to providing psychological support to patients with blood disorders and their families.

A large proportion of our patients come from global majority backgrounds. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and/or with an interest in haematological conditions such as sickle cell disease.


Key aspects of the role:


  • Providing psychological therapy to individuals
  • Completing triage assessments, signposting/referring onwards and conducting thorough risk assessments
  • An opportunity to cofacilitate patient groups
  • Using complex databases and undertaking analyses to support the team to audit and research their workContributing to multidisciplinary meetings and discussions

Benefits:


  • Weekly individual supervision and fortnightly peer supervision
  • Opportunities to attend monthly CPD workshops and training events
  • Opportunities to shadow qualified psychologists within the trust
  • Opportunities for skill development e.g. presenting research at conferences
  • Service has strong links to the local Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme


In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.


  • Main

Responsibilities:

Clinical

  • To assist in the delivery of psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Health or Counselling).
  • To assist in the organisation and facilitation of psychological support and therapy groups, some of which may be in the evening.
  • To work within a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to enhance the quality of care to individuals, carers and families affected by haematological disorders.
  • To attend and contribute as appropriate to multi-disciplinary meetings, specifically to the weekly psychology team meeting and to multi-disciplinary review meetings and discharge planning meetings for individuals within the service.
  • To help develop clinical resources for use by individuals seen within the service.
Teaching, Training and Supervision

  • To provide support and contribute to the supervision of undergraduate and MSc student psychologists on placement within the HPS.
  • To contribute to the training and support of other staff providing psychological care including preparation of teaching resources and other materials.
  • In common with all Practitioner and Assistant Psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
  • To gain an experience of professional psychology within the NHS through attendance at training workshops/meetings, departmental psychology meetings and by attending regional assistant psychology meetings.
  • To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
Management, Recruitment and Service Development

  • To assist in the implementation of service development projects within the service as required.
  • To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.
  • To support placement students in undertaking their tasks.
Research and Service Evaluation

  • To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.
  • To undertake data collection, entry and analysis and assist in the presentation of reports and summaries, using IT and computerised statistical programmes.
  • To undertake evidence-based literature searches and research to assist qualified clinical psychologists in evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
Professional Development

  • To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the psychologists in HPS.
  • To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping (in both medical notes and psychology case notes) and report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice of the BPS and Trust policies and procedures.
Additional Duties

  • To assist in organising patient information/engagement events.
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