Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist
1 month ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Clinical Health Psychologist to join our team at NELFT North East London Foundation Trust. As a Clinical Health Psychologist, you will play a vital role in providing specialist psychological therapy services to adults with long-term conditions, including diabetes, cardiac, and respiratory conditions.
Key Responsibilities- Conduct specialist psychologically informed assessments of patients presenting with psychological concerns in relation to their long-term health conditions.
- Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological therapy treatment and/or management of the cognitive, emotional, behavioural, physical, and psychological health of people with psychological distress in relation to their physical health.
- Implement a range of psychological interventions, both therapeutic and psycho-educational, for individuals, families, and groups, using at least two-three evidence-based interventions and best practice guidelines.
- Liaise closely with other disciplines responsible for a patient's care, when necessary, and be flexible in offering joint assessments of patients and carers with other key members of MDTs.
- Enhance the psychological profile of long-term conditions by attending and contributing to regular MDT meetings at Porters Avenue, as well as in-house clinical health psychology meetings and external specialist interest groups.
- Have a robust knowledge base of mental health presentations, as well as experience and knowledge of how to manage clinical risk within community settings.
- Discriminate between treatment alternatives and recommend appropriate evidence-based treatment programmes.
- Be responsible for undertaking specialist psychological assessments and treatment of patients to the service.
- Communicate skilfully, highly complex, and sensitive information to patients, their carers, families, and other professionals, taking account of sensory and cultural challenges to communication.
- Deliver a culturally and ethically sensitive, equitable psychological therapy service to all minority groups, regardless of race and ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, culture, religion, and disability.
- Provide specialist assessment and therapy to non-English speaking patients with the use of an interpreter, when necessary, communicating with a high degree of clarity and sensitivity to cultural and linguistic differences.
- Assess and manage clinical risk and mental health conditions, where appropriate, and liaise with other mental health services to be able to signpost patients to such services when indicated.
- Provide written reports to update referrers and inform planning/professionals meetings, as the need arises.
- Actively participate in the setting of quality standards, including auditing, monitoring, and reviewing treatment interventions and outcomes.
- Liaise and sit on a stepped-care panel with other psychological professionals in the Barking & Dagenham, TT/Secondary Mental Health Wellness teams, and provide updates as appropriate.
- Support and offer consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues and team members of the Long Term Conditions Teams as a resource for specialist psychological advice, consultation, and training about the psychological treatment and management of long-term conditions.
- Have an interest and ability to run clinical health psychology groups, especially psycho-education groups related to specific physical health conditions such as diabetes, respiratory, and cardiac conditions.
- Attend review meetings, clinical health psychological services meetings, and away days, CPAs, other professional, and network meetings as appropriate in order to share information and provide clinical health psychology advice.
- Maintain adequate clinical documentation in electronic (RiO) systems and written documentation as directed of all work undertaken in line with trust policies and ensure appropriate communication is maintained with GPs, referrers, etc.
- Plan and prioritise own workload within the priorities of the clinical health psychological service and the needs of patients and their families/carers.
- Be accountable for own professional actions and seek advice and supervision from the line manager/supervisor where needed over clinical, ethical, and policy issues.
Clinical
- Registration with UK professional body as HCPC clinical/counselling psychologist or counsellor/psychotherapist with a UK body (e.g. BABCP, UKCP, BACP)
- Experience working in at least 2 to 3 evidence-based therapeutic interventions
Desirable
- Additional specialist training in advanced therapy skills, such as CBT, mindfulness, group, couples, and family interventions
Professional/Clinical
- Experience working with complex mental health presentations and risk
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy in physical health services
Desirable
- Experience working with specific conditions-diabetes, cardiac, and respiratory
Clinical/Professional
- Experience working as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience with triage and signposting referrals
Desirable
- Experience in undertaking audits, QI projects, and/or service development
- Experience in providing supervision and consultation
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