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Providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health difficulties to receive a truly integrated and holistic approach to their treatment, regardless of complexity or severity, thanks to the knowledge and expertise of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.
Partnerships in Care Ltd are the leading UK provider of specialised mental health and related services. We aim to deliver quality services which extend the choice and range of provision to patients, clients and purchasers.
Nelson House is a modern and spacious 32 bed locked rehabilitation recovery service for men and women with mental illness. By having a focus on the development of skills for independence the unit provides a positive step for patients, many whose next step will be living in the community. It helps patients learn new ways of managing their conditions and symptoms with the aim of helping to prevent any future relapse. For patients with challenging behaviours, Nelson House helps them to learn skills to change their response to anxiety and distress.
The role:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a member of the multidisciplinary team at Nelson House, providing a high quality, specialist psychology service to the residents at Nelson House.
Nelson House is a 32 bedded locked rehabilitation environment for people with complex and challenging presentations including self-harm, PTSD, challenging behaviour, drug and alcohol addiction and treatment resistant schizophrenia.
The post holder will be responsible for the provision of specialist counselling/clinical psychology as a core member of the Nelson House therapy team. In addition, you will be required to encourage and support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training.
To provide psychological assessment and treatment to patients with a range of diagnoses of moderate to severe mental health problems with mood, anxiety and personality disorder, including depressive illnesses, personality difficulties, adjustment disorders and relationship difficulties.
To collaborate and communicate with colleagues, referrers, multidisciplinary team members and others as appropriate in the treatment planning and provision of services to clients. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of team policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Whilst the post is aimed at qualified individuals, we would consider applications from assistant psychologists with adequate levels of experience and post graduate qualifications in psychological therapies.
Key Responsibilities:
- To provide a specialist psychology service to patients residing at Nelson House Hospital, including provision of specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes. To provide consultation to multidisciplinary team staff as appropriate. To contribute to service evaluation, audit and research as required.
- To provide expertise in a specialist clinical area, which will contribute to the psychological treatment of patients residing at NHH.
- To provide specialist assessment and clinical formulation to clients with mental health needs, including the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To select and deliver evidence-based specialist psychological treatments, monitor outcome and modify interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical options.
- To work as an autonomous professional within BPS guidelines, and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions.
- To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
- To be responsible for psychological interventions with carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients to NHH, where required.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information orally and in writing, concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients to referrers and others involved in the clients care on a need to know basis taking account of sensory and cultural barriers to communication.
- To provide psychological support to clients who are emotionally distressed either due to the serious consequences of
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