Job responsibilities
Clinical Psychologist Job Description
Role Summary
Reporting To: Hospital Director
Location: The Langford Centre, 55 - 65 De La Warr Rd, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 2JE
Type: Full time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 (Working 5 days, between Monday and Friday)
The company mission
We aim to continually deliver quality, innovation, and value for money for our service users and their family members. We ensure that our services are safe and effectively regulated. We measure our success by providing objective, quantitative and auditable data that measures outcomes, effectiveness, and user experience to continually drive improvement. Our aspiration is to be a beacon of consistently good practice for other health and social care providers by being transparent about safety, quality, compliance, and governance.
About the role
The Langford Centre is a highly acclaimed 75 bedded mental health hospital, which provides Low Secure, High Dependency Inpatient Rehabilitation and Acute services. We support our patients from the point of admission to engage in their recovery pathway to promote successful reintegration back in to the community.
Ward Name
Beds
Description
Pevensey
16 bed male
Low secure mental health unit
Fairlight
16 bed female
Acute mental health unit
Cooden
15 bed male
Acute mental health unit
Arlington
10 bed male
Acute mental health unit
Bluebell
10 bed female
Acute mental health unit
Seaford
8 bed male
High dependency rehabilitation service with complex and enduring mental health conditions
Aim of the post
- To provide a clinical psychology service to patients in the Langford Centre to include assessment and treatment of patients who have mental health difficulties
- To undertake clinically related administration, conduct audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work.
- To consistently achieve agreed standards of face-to-face contact with our service users.
- Contribute to multi professional working within the team and the referring agencies through multi-disciplinary ward round reviews/CPAs
- Contribute to professional and service developments.
Key Tasks Clinical To undertake psychological assessments of service users applying psychological, tests (including neuropsychological), self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users and others involved in the service users care.
Provide psychological treatment to individual service users who have an identified need for specific psychological input.
To develop a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
To coordinate and facilitate therapeutic groups
To contribute to the risk assessment/risk management processes
To review and evaluate effectiveness of interventions offered.
To provide psychology reports to evaluate and communicate clinical work as required.
To attend and contribute to appropriate professional, multi-disciplinary and CPA meetings.
In consultation with medical staff and other professionals ensure that therapeutic interventions are implemented.
Be aware of and work within the confines of any relevant legislation, e.g. The Mental Health Act 1983 etc.
Ensure the development and maintenance of a safe secure therapeutic environment for patients and staff.
Be involved in ensuring that the patients are routinely involved in decisions affecting their care.
Key Tasks Management - Participate in Team meetings as required and provide a psychological perspective to matters under discussion when relevant.
- Contribute to and participate in staff training.
- Participate in the promotion of an active learning environment within the team.
- Participate in clinical supervision.
- Participate in and undertake performance appraisals as required.
- Participate in the selection and requirement of staff as required.
- Ensure that all policies and procedures are always adhered to and ensure the effective management and administration of the home completing written reports and records in accordance with relevant procedures.
- Ensure good professional relationships with all external agencies and within the local community.
- Contribute to the development of quality assurance, audit and standard setting as required.
- Provide statistical and activity data as necessary.
- Ensure that resources are effectively and efficiently used.
- Supervision of psychology assistants, trainee psychologists and Graduate Psychology Therapeutic Care Workers
- To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes
Key Tasks Professional
- Maintain accurate, factual, and contemporaneous records.
- Abide by the relevant Code of Professional Conduct.
- Work and operate within an equal opportunities policy and anti-discriminatory practices.
- Draw to the attention of the Manager any areas of concern relating to professional or clinical practice.
- Maintain professional competence by self-directed study and keep up to date on clinical developments within sphere of responsibility.
- Ensure that practice is evidence based.
About you, the successful applicant
Essential
- Professional Registration as a Psychologist with the HCPC
- Experience of assessing Challenging Behaviour, formulating underlying functions and needs, and designing behavioural or treatment plans accordingly.
- Proficiency in and experience of administering psychometric testing, and incorporating results into assessment and formulation, and the design of care packages.
- Familiarity with the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
- Experience of indirect clinical work, such as consultation with multi-disciplinary teams to support their therapeutic interventions with service users.
Desirable
- Post qualification training in one or more therapeutic approaches, such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, or Systemic Psychotherapy.
- Experience of working with Service Users from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervising members of other professional groups, such as Nurses and Therapeutic Care Workers.
- Experience of running therapeutic groups for service users with mental health problems.
- Experience of working with adults within a rehabilitation setting.
We offer an excellent benefits package including:
- 25 days holiday including 8 bank holidays
- Up to 50% off cinema tickets at Vue, Odeon, etc.
- Up to 50% off with activities such as Paintball
- Up to 25% off at restaurants such as Prezzo
- Up to 10% off at retail stores such as Topman
- Up to 5% international and domestic travel discounts
- Competitions to win £250 supermarket vouchers
- Free mobile phone insurance
- Free movies and TV shows to stream
- Free coffee
- And More!