Highly Specialised Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Uxbridge is seeking a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist to join their Community Learning Disability Team. You will be responsible for delivering specialist psychological assessments and interventions, providing training and consultation to colleagues, and developing best practice in a supportive environment. The role focuses on adults with learning disabilities, and offers opportunities for professional development within a committed team.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive multi-disciplinary team

Career progression support

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering psychological assessments and interventions for adults with learning disabilities.
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist psychological assessments and interventions for adults with learning disabilities.
• Provide consultation, supervision, and training to multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Work collaboratively with families and partner agencies.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Intervention planning

Consultation

Collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Job description

Job overview

Are you looking for an exciting and varied role where you will be able to work across a range of settings, as part of a well-established and supportive multi‑disciplinary team? The Hillingdon Community Learning Disability Team have a Band 8A role available for a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist. Psychology is a valued part of the team and you would be joining an 8A psychotherapist, and Assistant Psychologist, who have strong connections to Learning Disabilities Services across the trust and in the NW London region.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the delivery of high‑quality psychological services for adults with learning disabilities, their families, and carers.

You will play a key role in providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, as well as consultation and training to colleagues across health and social care.

In CNWL, psychological professions have a strong sense of leadership and a distinct professional identity. There is an emphasis on Continuing Professional Development and developing your skills in line with your career progression goals. As a Trust, we are committed to staff development and will work with you to identify your development goals and support you to access training to enhance your role.

Main duties of the job

The psychology provision within the Hillingdon Community Learning Disability Team includes assessing for learning disability, assessing service‑users’ psychological needs, developing formulations to help individuals, families and systems to understand their needs and difficulties, and offering intervention at the appropriate level for the person referred (individual, family, system). As part of the multi-disciplinary team, psychologists also routinely work jointly with other professionals within and external to the service, to improve the quality of life and care for the person referred.

Working for our organisation

Here at CNWL we encourage our psychological professions staff to pursue leadership opportunities in senior roles. Various prominent leadership roles within the Trust are currently held by Psychologists including : Director of Strategy and Integration, Chief Information Officer, 3 Clinical Directors. We try to facilitate the development of our psychological professions staff across all areas.

What we can offer you :

CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, 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.

A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Deliver specialist psychological assessments and interventions for adults with learning disabilities accessing the Hillingdon Community Learning Disability Team including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• Provide consultation, supervision, and training to multidisciplinary colleagues functioning as a lead specialist in Learning Disability
• Contribute to service development, research, and audit activities.
• Work collaboratively with families, carers, and partner agencies to promote person-centred care.
• Support the team in embedding trauma-informed and evidence-based practice.

Vaccination

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

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