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Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Specialist Post
Colegio Santa Teresa del Niño Jesús - Martínez - Buenos Aires
London
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GBP 51,000 - 59,000
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Job summary
A leading NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a passionate Clinical Psychologist to join their team in Harrow. The successful candidate will provide psychological services within acute mental health settings, contributing to the assessment and treatment of individuals with complex psychological needs. This role offers opportunities for professional development, including funded training in EMDR.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with complex needs.
- Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
- Knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis.
Responsibilities
- Provide psychological services to Adult Acute Mental Health Inpatient Wards.
- Develop multi-disciplinary care plans for service users.
- Lead the development of Trauma-Informed Approaches in mental health services.
Skills
Education
Job description
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London's population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire. . As a Foundation Trust we involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run and our future development. If you are interested in becoming a member of our Foundation Trust please visi www.cnwl.nhs.uk it: (source: Central and North West London NHS Foundation NHS Trust website)
View job detailskeyboard_arrow_downHide job detailskeyboard_arrow_upHarrow Adult Mental Health is looking for a highly motivated and passionate Psychologist to join our psychological therapies team. This specialist post is offered within the acute pathway, and sits across the Inpatient Psychology Team and Mental Health Emergency Assessment Centre (MHEAC). The Inpatient Psychology Team provides psychology services to two Adult Acute Mental Health Inpatient Wards (Eastlake & Ferneley) based at Mental Health Centre, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow.
The Acute Psychology Pathway provides integrated and high quality psychologically-informed care to service users with acute mental health presentations; including psychosis, complex emotional needs and PTSD. The successful candidate will play a key role in the urgent assessment of service users presenting to acute services, and the development of creative, multi-disciplinary care plans to support these service users outside of hospital. They will be involved in the provision of psychological intervention that follows service users from acute to community services, under our continuity pathway.
Harrow is committed to the continued development of our staff. In line with this, the post-holder will be funded to complete EMDR training in 2025/26.
The post-holder will also be expected to take a leading role in the ongoing development of Harrow's Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) model for the adult mental health services. This approach has been established in Harrow acute services over the last six years, recently published (Nikopaschos et al. 2023) and now also influencing National Policy (see NHSE Guidelines for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Care for Adults and Older Adults, 2023).
The Harrow Inpatient Psychology Team and Mental Health Emergency Centre work closely together with Home Treatment Team (HTT) and Community Mental Health Hub as a cohesive system, which provides holistic intervention to adults with mental health difficulties in Harrow.
The post-holder will be expected to work as a senior member of the multi-professional team, including the provision of consultation, co-working, teaching, training, supervision and research as well as developing specific training to enhance the systematic provision of psychological interventions offered to service users by all members of the team within a 'stepped-care' framework.
Specialist supervision is offered in EMDR, DBT, NET, CBT, Open Dialogue, CAT, systemic and psychodynamic models .
CNWL provides NHS services throughout a person's life, in physical and mental health and everything in between, at GPs and hospitals to the community and in their own home.
The majority of our services are provided in the community, which means treating people in their homes or from clinics close to home. In this sense we are a very modern part of the NHS, something the new Long Term Plan wants to see more of, with better integration and coordination of care, delivered as close to home as possible
Where community care is not possible we offer a number of facilities to treat people in hospital or residential environments. We also provide healthcare in prisons in London and the surrounding areas.
Partnerships are central to what we do here - with patients and their families, with staff and with other organisations, especially commissioners and providers but also with local authorities, GPs, universities and the voluntary sector. We envisage more in the years to come.
We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specifications for the details.
The post-holder will also be expected to take a leading role in the ongoing development of Harrow's Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) model for the adult mental health services. This approach has been established in Harrow acute services over the last six years, recently published (Nikopaschos et al. 2023) and now also influencing National Policy (see NHSE Guidelines for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Care for Adults and Older Adults, 2023).
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff. We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see ourBenefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
- • Entry-level qualification in Applied Psychology (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level additional training) that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration.
- • Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist.
- • Further training and or qualifications in other fields of applied psychology
- • Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs
- • Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- • Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience
- • Experience of developing and carrying out research projects
- • Experience of working with adults in crisis services or acute states of distress, in Inpatient settings, PICU or forensic setting.
- • Experience of teaching, training and/ or supervision
- • Experience of working as a qualified psychologist under supervision
- • Theoretical knowledge of psychological presentations and the evidence base for the relevant treatment
- • Knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics
- • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities
- • Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis
- • Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care
- • To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences
- • To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
- • To communicate skillfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information
- • To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers, and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews
- • To plan allocation of tasks to assistant psychologists
- • To be skilled in the administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials
- • Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data
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