Practitioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist

Key Responsibilities

Clinical and Client Care To plan, organise and ensure the delivery of Psychology in Hostels (PIH) services in Westminster - working creatively and flexibly, in line with Community Psychology principles to meet the needs of our third sector partners and the people they support. To provide a high level of clinical expertise in supporting the psychological needs of rough sleepers and homeless people in supported accommodation with histories of complex trauma, personality disorder, addiction, brain injury. This includes specialist assessment, clinical formulation and delivery of evidence-based models (e.g.: MBT, DBT, Systemic, Narrative, Integrative) for clients with a wide range of complex mental health needs. To provide and oversee the delivery of evidence based and culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required. Delivery of case consultations and formulation spaces to a wide range of hostel and outreach front line workers and managers to support psychological understanding of and approaches to support clients with complex and multiple needs. Partnership Work To develop and maintain effective partnership working with our third sector hostel, supported housing or outreach partner services, as well as other community services and local commissioners. To develop and maintain partnership working with the Westminster Drug & Alcohol service (Turning Point) and provide psychological input into existing MDT case discussion spaces and support front line Turning Point staff and managers. To lead on quarterly PiH data reporting for the OHID Rough Sleepers Drug & Alcohol Treatment Grant Contract in Westminster and present data at quarterly meetings. Teaching, Training, and Supervision To be responsible for planning, organising, and the delivery of teaching and training of pre- and post- qualification psychologists and specialist training to other professions in the PiH team. To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the PiH teams by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology, psychological therapies, Homelessness, PIEs, Mentalisation-Based Treat (MBT) and by implementing knowledge gained in practice. To provide clinical, professional and managerial supervision to junior members of the team for all aspects of their work. To deliver training in psychological and trauma-informed approaches to care and working with different mental health difficulties for other professionals and third sector partners across Westminster Team and Service Clinical Functioning To work with other SLaM services and other agencies services (particularly the homeless sector) to plan and deliver joint services that are integrated around the needs of service users. To support recruitment of staff including the psychology and psychotherapy staff in the PiH teams. To support the wellbeing of the PiH team through formal and informal systems and spaces used to attend to and address issues. Clinical and Client Care Policy and Service Development Support on winning bids, grants, tendering and commissioning, and support recommissioning, funding management and contract delivery. Support on developing service sustainability models, recommissioning and grant applications, including working with relevant SLaM Corporate, Legal and Contracts teams and directorate leadership as required To initiate, implement and ensure appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of PiH services and in partnership organisations and services. To support the PiH service to be national leaders in service design and delivery for working with homeless people and those experiencing multiple disadvantage through the continued development of innovative Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) practice. To take a lead role in ensuring that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards and local authority commissioners and direct provider contracts. Leadership To provide leadership to psychologists, psychotherapists and other professionals in the PiH team. Support and maintain a service culture and values in line with Trust values as well as the teams' vision of addressing health inequalities and multiple disadvantage of people experiencing homelessness, and the value of cross-sector partnership working as ways of improving clinical practice and service delivery. Research and Service Evaluation To provide expertise in the highly specialist research area which contributes to PiH and PIE more broadly. To develop and maintenance of a strong research culture that values the use of outcome measures and mix-method evaluations as a way of improving clinical practice. Professional Responsibilities To receive regular clinical and professional supervision according to HCPC, BPS, or other relevant professional requirements and in-line with Trust guidelines. To ensure professional registration with the HCPC (for psychologists). For other therapists, to ensure professional accreditation with their relevant registry body is maintained. To ensure that all psychology and psychotherapy staff for whom the post-holder has leadership or management responsibility, maintain professional standards and continuing professional development.