Priory Lakeside View cares for adults of working age with acute mental health care needs within a safe, therapeutic environment in Willenhall, West Midlands.

We aim to provide a person-centred approach that promotes collaborative care planning to optimise treatment goals. From the point of admission into our acute services, we aim to support service users' safe discharge back into the community where they can continue to progress towards recovery in a less restrictive environment.

The aim of our service is to act as an extension to NHS care pathways during times of fluctuating capacity and flow, allowing many service users' to receive care and treatment closer to home. This will provide continuity of care and aim to minimise disruption to service users' and their loved ones.

The hospital has 28 beds comprising of:

* 2 Male acute mental health service - 20 beds

* Female acute mental health service - 8 beds

Our acute service provides dedicated mental health treatment for males and females of working age, across the three units.

Our aim is to:

*Act as an extension to NHS care pathways during times of fluctuating capacity and flow

*Allow more people to receive care and treatment closer to home

*Provide continuity of care

*Allow for minimum disruption to service users and their loved ones

Each of our wards provides service users with excellent space and facilities, including en-suite bedrooms and large living spaces furnished with activity equipment such as game consoles.Outside of the wards, a purpose-built therapy suite contains a rehabilitation kitchen for patient cooking sessions, and a sessional therapy room. The hospital is set in the centre of an extensive nature reserve, which also houses an abundance of fauna and flora.

The clinical team at Lakeside View encourage full involvement of each individual, their family and external professionals throughout their stay. Individuals are invited to attend ward reviews and care planning approach (CPA) meetings to ensure clear communication throughout the care pathway in order to promote their recovery and facilitate discharge

The Principle Psychologist will work closely with the hospital director/director of clinical services/medical director to implement an innovative and evidence-based psychology pathway across the hospital, and ensure the implementation of a high quality psychology department.

You will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working, risk assessments, facilitate staff reflective practice sessions and will be requested to design and deliver training.

As a Principle Clinical Psychologist, you will have experience and knowledge in carrying a service users caseload, including assessing service users with personality disorders, autism and associated challenges, and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatment within a mental health setting.

You will work be working with a dynamic multi-professional team leading the development of individual formulations and psychological assessment. This will be done with the support of other members of the psychology team, you will support the development and delivery of behavioural and other psychological interventions for service users and provide appropriately guidance to reduce risks, aid recovery and independence.

You will be working for an organisation where there is a strong emphasis on teamwork and personal development, where you will have continuous access to a range of training opportunities to move your career forward.

You must be a confident leader who is keen to support the development of others, understand the dynamics of working in both

About us
As one of the UK's leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services to adults and young people, Priory Group promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development.

Priory maintains that vaccination remains our very best line of defence against COVID-19 and believes that our colleagues working with vulnerable individuals have a professional duty to be vaccinated. As part of our wider infection control efforts, and to meet our commissioner and customer requirements, we continue to record vaccination status for all colleagues and we therefore request that you disclose this information as part of your application. Your vaccination status will not affect any offer of employment and will be held in line with GDPR requirements.

Disclosure
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory Group will cover the cost of a DBS check.