17 Oct
University College London Hospitals
London
Job description
Job overview
Are you a psychology graduate looking to further their career to enter on to clinical / counselling psychology training?
Are you enthusiastic, dedicated, and hard working?
We are looking for a compassionate, creative and highly motivated psychology graduate to join the UCLH Staff Psychology & Welfare Service (SPWS).
We seek a psychology graduate who is aiming to pursue a career in Psychology and who is working towards the doctorate programme for Clinical or Counselling Psychology.
Candidates considering applying for these training courses are expected to achieve at least a 2 : 1 degree in Psychology with Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) eligibility.
SPWS is well-established within the Trust and the post-holder will join a friendly and diverse multi-disciplinary team of clinical and counselling psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, conflict coaches and mediators.
This is an exciting and critically important time to work in this area, helping to support our diverse hospital workforce to cope with the impact of, and recover from the pandemic as well as the on-going nature of healthcare work in acute hospital settings.
This service has been in place for over 20 years at UCLH with this post a recent addition to enhance the service.
Main duties of the job
The main responsibilities of the post :
- To develop resources to support the embedding of the sexual safety charter.
- To support the SSC Psychologists to develop and undertake a new pathway supporting staff reporting sexual violence.
- To support triages, assessments and groups with staff affected by sexual violence and abuse.
- To support the Pathway Lead in communicating across the Trist the new support pathway for staff reporting sexual violence and abuse.
- To assess and support Acute health NHS Staff with common mental health problems in the self-management of their recovery.
- To assist with the provision of information / self-help material and support for self-help groups.
- To provide low-intensity interventions, such as psycho-educational interventions, guided self-help and holding spaces’ for staff accessing the service.
- To develop training packages for staff teams.
- To attend multidisciplinary meetings about referrals or clients in treatment
- To be involved in mapping demand, lead in monitoring outcomes for staff support work and contribute to the development of evaluations, newsletters, resources and updating on progression.
- To provide a range of information and support for evidence based low intensity psychological treatments which will include guided self-help, CBT, ACT.
This may be face-face, telephone or via other media.
Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population.
We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.
Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites :
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease.
It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service,
embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH.
We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
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🖊️ University College London Hospitals
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