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Form of workAre you an experienced Psychologist looking for a rewarding career, where you can make a difference and change lives for the better? If so, join the team at The Spinney Hospital and enjoy support from a regional network of psychologists as you grow your career.
You will work 37.5 hours a week as the Lead Psychologist at The Spinney, a service that offers medium and low secure rehabilitation wards, a separate rehabilitation service and a psychiatric intensive unit (PICU) for males with personality disorders or mental illness.
With experience from the NHS or the private sector, you will carry a caseload, which includes assessing service users with complex needs, and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatment within mental health care services.
What will you be doing:
As a Lead Psychologist, you will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working and risk assessments. You will support the clinical teams in creating reports with service users to increase engagement through interventions and developing new initiatives.
Working alongside the psychology department, you will enjoy being part of a team that offers a variety of therapeutic approaches to service users, including CBT, EMDR, and DBT. You will provide guidance, support and supervision to a small team of psychologists and assistants, and will be responsible for providing training.
At The Spinney, you'll have the opportunity to work with people from different backgrounds with a range of presentations. The service welcomes creativity, so if you can think outside the box to help develop the service psychology provision then this could be for you.
There is a strong emphasis on teamwork, supervision and CPD, with support from a regional network of Psychologists.
Your responsibilities:
- Attendance and contribution to Clinical Leads and Hospital Governance Meetings
- Working with internal and external agencies in order to enhance treatment pathways for service users
To be successful as a Lead Psychologist, you'll need:
- To be registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist and Charterable status with the British Psychological Society
- Competence in assessing, formulating and working therapeutically with service users
- Ability to identify and proactively resolve problems and challenges within the service
- Ability to supervise junior members of the team
- Knowledge and understanding of working with trauma
- Experience in working with people with complex needs that are relevant to the population in the service area
- Competency in psychological assessments and formulation skills and an aptitude for learning new assessment methods
- Competency in cognitive functioning/management tools and formulation
- Experience in using a range of therapeutic interventions to address a range of clinical and/or forensic issues
The Spinney offers medium and low secure rehabilitation wards, a separate rehabilitation service and a psychiatric intensive unit (PICU) for males with personality disorders or mental illness.
What you will get:
- Competitive annual salary of £62,500 - £67,500
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - (inc Bank Holiday) plus your birthday off!
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more.
About your next employer
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay HealthCare with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over86,000 people globally.
The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.
