Assistance Psychologist

Job summary

This post is part of the innovative City & Hackney Primary Care Mental Health service for patients with complex biopsychosocial needs including medically unexplained symptoms sometimes co-morbid with personality disorder and frequent attendance or difficulties in relationships to health services. The service works with a diverse community in East London using an applied Psychoanalytic model with notable systemic aspects relating to the impact of the environment as well as psychological, relational and inter-generational life. The primary tasks of the service are to offer; skilled psychological assessment, treatment and consultation with patients as individuals and sometimes in 'joint consultation'together with their GP. Provision of a range of brief evidence-based treatments, including brief dynamic psychotherapy, supportive counselling, couples work, occasionally family therapy and a lively and well-developed range of focused group therapy including a Turkish-speaking Horticultural therapy project. The service operates on a hub-and-spoke model providing services in local surgeries. The team works within the borough's GP surgeries and as such is Primary Care centric in its thinking and relationships with other professionals. It is currently jointly managed by Dr Gabriella Rubino, Principal Clinical Psychologist/Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Lola Barbour, Principal Nurse in Psychotherapy

Main duties of the job

The role offers the opportunity to be involved in a creative service development commissioned by the Camden and City and Hackney CCGs and provided by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. You will be a member of a well supported, multi-disciplinary clinical team receiving regular and reliable supervision as well as weekly academic and clinical seminars. The post-holders central role will be to assist the services in monthly and quarterly reporting to commissioners, as well as ongoing audit and service evaluation projects. There will be some opportunities to help develop and contribute to ongoing research projects in the service. Key responsibilities will include data collection, input and analysis, as well as report writing. Additional tasks include extracting andsummarising data for management on an as-needed basis. You would be expected to assist the Service Lead in attending high level commissioning meetings and presenting service reports.The post-holder will also have a role in service user involvement strategies, as well as supporting the teams with their own evaluation and feedback data to improve service provision. There will be scope for professional development within the teams' CPD programmes. The successful applicants will hold an upper 2:1 or 1st class Psychology degree and will have previous experience in mental health services and research, audit, data management and analysis.

About us

The Tavistock Clinic is a National Health Service post-graduate training institution for a wide range of caregivers in the field of mental health. It provides multi-disciplinary services for adults, adolescents and children and their families; these cover a spectrum of psychoanalytic, psychotherapeutic and systemic approaches. PCPCS is also a resource for a consultation with professionals in other centres and in the community, within both the public and voluntary sectors, covering health, social services and education.

TRAINING

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has a national brief for training in the mental health professions and is a national centre for psychoanalytic and systemic training.

ADULT AND FORENSIC SERVICES

In terms of clinical services, the Trust is divided into 3 main directorates: Adult and Forensic Services (AFS); Children, Young Adults and Families (CYAF), and Gender Services for Adults and Young Persons.

Adult and Forensic Services consists of three main service lines - Adult Complex Needs, Portman Clinic and Primary Care Services.

The Portman Clinic is an assessment and psychotherapeutic treatment service for children, adolescents and adults who are troubled by their delinquent, criminal, violent or and/or compulsive sexual behaviours.