Job summary
Job Title: Home Treatment Team
Psychology graduate
Grade: 5
Trust: South London & Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust
Location: Bethlem Royal Hospital,
Monks Orchard Rd, Beckenham BR3 3BX
Hours: Monday Friday 9.00am
17.00pm
This is a Split role capacity as a Psychology Assistant (2 days a week) and as a Home Treatment Team practitioner (3 days a week).
Main duties of the job
The South London & Maudsley NHS Trust provides a full range of
mental health services to people of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth, and Croydon
as well as substance misuse services for people in Bexley, Greenwich, and
Bromley. The Trust provides specialist services to people from across the UK.
It has approximately 4,800 staff and a budget of £300 million. The trust
also works closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and
Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health
Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in
the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness.
Their scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and
treatment, science and research, and training
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Job description
Job responsibilities
You
will assess the needs of service users and plan and evaluate care using a collaborative
approach with service users, their families, and carers. You will work alongside other members of the
multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective care delivery, including the use of
evidenced based time-limited psychological interventions, risk assessments and
management, and safe discharge processes.
You
will ensure the physical health care needs of service users are appropriately
addressed and monitored. You will liaise effectively with other professionals
and services to ensure good communication is maintained and care is transferred
seamlessly.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You
will assess the needs of service users and plan and evaluate care using a collaborative
approach with service users, their families, and carers. You will work alongside other members of the
multi-disciplinary team to ensure effective care delivery, including the use of
evidenced based time-limited psychological interventions, risk assessments and
management, and safe discharge processes.
You
will ensure the physical health care needs of service users are appropriately
addressed and monitored. You will liaise effectively with other professionals
and services to ensure good communication is maintained and care is transferred
seamlessly.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in people with crisis in community and wards
- Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions
Desirable
- In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
- Relevant Qualifications
- Registration with the relevant Registration Body
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in people with crisis in community and wards
- Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions
Desirable
- In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:
- Relevant Qualifications
- Registration with the relevant Registration Body
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
