Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Job Overview

We are excited to offer two posts for psychologists to work on our adult acute psychiatric wards. One of these is part of new investment as our organisation is enhancing the therapeutic environment and interventions on our wards where some wards will benefit from having full time qualified psychology input for the first time.

Responsibilities

• Direct assessment and intervention for service users on a mixed gender adult acute psychiatric ward.
• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy within professional guidelines and the acute and urgent care pathway.
• Train and supervise ward staff, facilitate reflective practice groups and promote trauma‑informed care across two admission wards.
• Lead research activities for audit, policy development and service improvement.
• Take professional responsibility for attached doctoral trainee practitioner psychologists (8a role only), assistants and/or graduate psychologists.
• Support the multidisciplinary team through advice, consultation, training and supervision on psychological care.

Benefits

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to support a positive, welcoming environment for our people and their careers.

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