This is an exciting opportunity to join Lewisham Crisis Plus, a High Intensity User (HIU) service, as an assistant psychologist within Lewisham Community Mental Health Services.
The service offers time-limited sessions to co-create management plans that allow services to better understand the needs of our SUs when in distress or experiencing crisis. We work specifically with those SUs who have a history of frequently using acute and crisis services. These SUs typically present with challenging and complex needs, a range of diagnoses and an increased risk of harm to self and others.
This role is predominately onsite, based at Lewisham CMHTs (Deptford and Bromley) as well as working across adult mental health services in Lewisham.
You will be part of a small team linked to a CMHT. Your role will include assisting Crisis Plus in the delivery of a specialist, applied psychological intervention. You will work with SUs who present in crisis with acute risks, by delivering high level assessment and formulation to guide psychologically-informed interventions.
An important part of the role will be using service use data to support in the identification of HIUs. This will also include assisting in clinically related administration, conducting audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
You will be based across a number of sites in Lewisham including two Community Mental Health centres and the Ladywell Unit, based in University Hospital Lewisham.

OTHER BENEFITS INCLUDE:

Counselling services
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants
Work with SUs who present with a range of diagnoses, challenging behaviours and acute risk in crisis.
Contribute to the co-creation of effective multi-agency crisis plans with the highest-use service users and their care teams.
Use a range of psychological skills including assessment and formulation, and working in a systemically-focused approach.
Offering guidance to service users, their carers, mental health and external agencies on how best future crises can be more effectively managed and to support the SU’s recovery.
Attend MDT meetings, ward rounds, etc; follow and contribute to multi-disciplinary clinical discussion.
Developing the function of Crisis Plus, including supporting the development of new interventions that proactively engage service users.
Collection of qualitative and quantitative outcome data from SUs and their network of professionals, and developing and maintaining a number of databases linked to identification of HIUs.
Support the wider work in Lewisham and the trust in relation to HIUs.
Key responsibilities are detailed in the Job description and person specification

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