Psychologist - Hammersmith & Fulham

Job Introduction

At Turning Point, we are recognised leaders in helping people recover from addiction and regain control of their lives. By providing the right support at the right time and making sure that people can find all the help they need through a single point of contact, we have grown into one of the largest providers of substance use services in England and Wales.

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic and talented trauma-informed Practitioner Psychologist or accredited Psychotherapist, who is passionate about helping people with enhanced vulnerability and multiple disadvantage difficulties achieve positive change, to champion and oversee the effective development, management and delivery of the Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) strategy within our Substance Use Services in Turning Point Central London in the London borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, a free and confidential service for adult residents who would like support with their drug and alcohol use.

The Turning Point Hammersmith & Fulham Service is a well established service integrated within the local health and social care treatment system with robust multiagency partnership working.

You will be working directly within hostel and outreach settings in Hammersmith & Fulham, empowering frontline staff teams and supporting vulnerable individuals experiencing co-occurring substance use and mental health difficulties with complex needs.

Role Responsibility

• Develop PIE: implement and evaluate the PIE framework to meet the psychosocial, psychological and emotional needs of service users in the Hammersmith & Fulham Turning Point Assertive Outreach pathway
• Support staff: provide reflective practice, consultation, and PIE psychological training as well as other psychologically informed training sessions for staff teams within the Hammersmith & Fulham Turning Point Assertive Outreach pathway and partner agencies
• Provide clinical Interventions: use your expertise to offer psychological assessment and formulation, deliver evidence-based, trauma-informed psychological interventions within the structured clinical management model framework for clients with complex needs within the Hammersmith & Fulham Turning Point Assertive Outreach pathway
• Work systemically: collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, local authority, and partner agencies to ensure the offer of a psychological perspective in care management and design psychologically safe service delivery for service users within the Hammersmith & Fulham Turning Point Assertive Outreach pathway
• Ensure the highest levels of safeguarding and risk management for our service users
• Line manage staff such as Advanced Practitioners, Group Leads, Assistant Psychologists, MHWPs and provide clinical supervision and practice supervision to staff offering psychological and psychosocial interventions
• Contribute to the development of integrated care pathways with secondary mental health partner agencies
• Oversee the use of outcome measures for psychological interventions and lead on the management of databases, audit and evaluation related to psychological provision
• Continuously improve our services by participating in national psychology service development in response to needs analysis, supporting the development and governance of psychosocial and psychological interventions and training and coaching in psychosocial and psychological approaches for local Turning Point staff and external partner agencies
• Work with our national team of Clinical, Counselling and Forensic Psychologists and Psychotherapist to lead selected national psychology teamwork streams.
• Have a small caseload of service users with complex needs, providing specialist psychological assessments and therapies

The Ideal Candidate

You will hold a doctorate and have current registration through the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist, or be registered with the UKCP, BPC, or BACP as an accredited Psychotherapist.

You will be interested in working within the Assertive Outreach sector, with people with enhanced vulnerability and multiple disadvantage, co-occurring substance use and mental health difficulties and the psychologically informed environment (PIE) approach. You will have experience of working with complex needs inc. substance use, mental health and homelessness, offering psychological therapies to people with mental health and/or substance use difficulties and providing practice, managerial or clinical supervision. Formal training in supervision, whilst not essential, would be desirable. You will have the ability to prioritise and manage workload, working both autonomously and seeking appropriate clinical supervision as required. Excellent communication skills, adaptability and commitment to the Recovery Agenda, knowledge of IT systems, passion, energy and enthusiasm to be an advocate for change and support staff teams through change, to be person centred in your approach to colleagues and people we support and to add to the delivery of positive outcomes, will all contribute to you becoming a vital member of our clinical leadership team.

About us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

26 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 28 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees 

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

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