NHS LANARKSHIRE

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

The Psychological Services Staff Support Team (PSSST) provide expert psychological care for Lanarkshire’s health and social care (H&SC) workforce, consulting with managers and Occupational Health to identify reasonable adaptations to support mental health and wellbeing at work, prevent sickness absence or facilitate early return to work.
PSSST’s One-to-One Service provides a clinical service for staff with mental health difficulties where high intensity psychological therapy is indicated AND where the presenting mental health difficulty has been directly caused or precipitated by their experience in work, such as work related psychological trauma OR the primary focus of intervention relates to work. PSSST also provides assessment and intervention to staff members who cannot be seen in local services due to confidentiality concerns, even if their difficulties are not work related.
PSSST’s Consultation and Teams Service works in collaboration with managers, teams, services and other organisational supports to promote workforce wellbeing through bespoke psychologically informed systemic interventions.
The core focus of this role will be the psychological assessment and treatment of members of the H&SC workforce working in Lanarkshire, within PSSST’s one-to-one service.
This post may also involve consultation and training with colleagues from the other support services, including Occupational Health, Health Improvement and Staff Care & Wellbeing. There may also be the opportunity to co-facilitate the ‘Compassion Starts with You’ 5 session compassionate mind group delivered by the service.
Ideally the post-holder will be able to draw upon additional training achieved post-qualification relevant to the service, to a level of a working knowledge as a minimum. This may well be one or more of the following: TF-CBT, EMDR, CFT, Schema etc.