Psychologist-staff Support Service - Reading, United Kingdom - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
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Reading, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical psychologist to join our Occupational Health team as part of our new staff psychology support service for the Trust.


The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Lead Psychologist as we set up the new service and engage with key stakeholders across the Trust to provide regular psychological support as required as well as providing a direct, face-to-face sessions for staff who are referred into the service.


The post-holder will be responsible for undertaking assessment and treatment work with staff members as part of the wider Occupational Health and staff Health and Wellbeing teams.

To undertake highly specialist psychological assessment of individuals and teams referred to the staff psychological support service (SPSS)


Communicate a clinical opinion in order to inform and/or develop a case formulation based on analysis and interpretation of knowledge from a variety of sources including clinical interview, direct observation, questionnaire measures, up-to-date literature review, psychological assessment, psychometric assessment and with regard to other medical investigations if relevant.


To develop specialised plans for formal psychological intervention, based on the individual / team assessment and formulation, and making use of an informed judgment of evidence of treatment efficacy and psychological principles.


To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, teams and groups, within and across staffing teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.


To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice and consultation to other professionals in relation to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care (for example advising Occupational Health colleagues on psychological principles and research, or acting as consultant to allied health professional (AHP) colleagues in understanding and managing challenging behaviour).


The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust places the health and wellbeing of it over 5.500 staff as a key priority for the trust.


Significant investments have been made to support our staff health and wellbeing agenda including our newly opened Oasis staff health and wellbeing as well as establishing this new Staff Psychological Support Service (SPSS).

These new services complement the existing Occupational Health team which includes a staff health and wellbeing team.


Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton.

With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.


Our values:

Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Please see the attached Job description and person specification for more detailed information about this role.
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