Senior Patient Flow Coordinator

This post offers the exciting opportunity to join the Acute Mental Health Services psychology team in West London NHS Trust. The post offers the successful candidate the opportunity to work as a senior clinician in acute care working with service users experiencing a mental health crisis, working with the MDT to hold a psychological formulation about a service user and working in a leadership role. The post will be based in Hammersmith & Fulham Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team.

The post-holder will work collaboratively and proactively with the multi-disciplinary team to manage risk robustly and to provide a psychological perspective to the care provided, along with providing assessment, formulation and brief interventions to service users and their families. The post holder will be part of the AMHS psychology team, which includes clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists, psychotherapists, clinical associates in psychology and assistant psychologists. The team also offers placements for trainee clinical psychologists.

Main duties of the job include:

• Providing a full and comprehensive psychology service offering assessment, formulation, risk assessment and brief evidence-based interventions when indicated.
• Offering indirect work ensuring that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to a psychological framework for understanding the service user’s needs.
• Developing knowledge and skills for the MDT to utilise a psychological framework through teaching, training and supervision.
• Working as a clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the systematic provision and governance of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service.
• Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
• Participating as a senior clinician and being an integral part of the leadership team involved in the development and delivery of a high-quality service.
• Functioning as an autonomous practitioner responsible for their own work within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.

Hammersmith & Fulham Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team provides a service for adult service users experiencing mental health crisis requiring intensive home-based support and treatment. The service aims to prevent service users from requiring a hospital admission; therefore, the post holder will be required to travel to service users’ homes.

Person specification includes:

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology or its equivalent, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Training in clinical supervision for doctoral, and equivalent, trainees.
• Evidence of post-doctoral training in psychological therapies relevant to severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

Experience required includes:

• Post qualification experience of working in mental health settings delivering specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions across a range of settings.
• Experience of working with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course presenting with a range of psychological problems.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to assistant/trainee or qualified psychologists, and/or other professionals.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

Knowledge and skills required include:

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management.
• Well-developed skills in effective communication of complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.