Job Summary
An opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to join the Multidisciplinary Team on the Macarthur Centre PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit).
You will join a fast paced MDT environment to work in the least restrictive way to support adult male service users presenting with acute and urgent care mental health needs.
Psychology has been well embedded into the foundations of the PICU, and as the Assistant Psychologist you will be supported by the Principal Clinical Psychologist to develop your skills in an inpatient environment in psychological assessments, formulation, care planning and brief psychological interventions.
There are also opportunities to work with the team to deliver reflective practice and support staff with their development and training needs.
We have strong links with local universities across the clinical, forensic and counselling courses. Relationships have been established with other organisations with connections into a national psychology group for Trauma Interventions in Acute Settings.
The successful candidate will be part of a group of urgent care Psychologists who are based across acute settings including CRHTT, acute in-patients, mental health liaison services and PICU. The successful candidate will be supported with clinical supervision and opportunities for CPD.
Main duties of the job
To support the Principal Clinical Psychologist in the delivery of specialist psychological assessments and interventions to clients with complex mental health conditions which may include challenging behaviours
To support the Principal Clinical Psychologist in the provision of psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff in the MDT
In line with the banding of the post and its service context, and under the supervision of the Principal Clinical Psychologist to be involved in:
- Multi-disciplinary training and development
- Service audit and development
- Service evaluation and research
- Bring an understanding of psychological change processes to own role within MDT
About us
Our Urgent Care psychology service (inpatient, crisis home treatment and mental health liaison services) has a reputation for its cutting-edge, innovative practice. Having been one of the first Trusts nationally to employ dedicated inpatient psychologists in the late-90s, and in the development of Crisis Home Treatment teams, we strive to maintain and continually improve our excellent service and reputation through our commitment to co-production, integrated multi-disciplinary team working, and our recovery-promoting drive. We are highly regarded by colleagues of all professions within our services and are the ‘go to’ people for complex problems and creative ideas to make a difference to our staff and service users.