Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Transformationunitgm; Southall; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join West London NHS Trust as a psychologist within the crisis and home treatment services. This role involves working with a multi-disciplinary team, providing psychological assessments and interventions to adults experiencing mental health crises, with opportunities for supervision and training within the team.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training with experience in mental health settings.
• Professional registration required.
• Post qualification experience in delivering psychological assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments and interventions to service users.
• Supervise and manage a Clinical Associate in Psychology.
• Participate in clinical meetings and contribute to a multidisciplinary approach.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Psychological assessment

Psychological formulation

Interventions

Team collaboration

Teaching and training

Communication

Crisis intervention

Reflective practice

Knowledge of research methodology

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology

Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council

Training in clinical supervision

Post-doctoral training in psychological therapies

Job description

West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.

We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.

Job overview

Are you an experienced psychologist or psychological practitioner with an enthusiasm for working in a crisis service?Do you have the skills and experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team and providing a psychological perspective to the care provided? Do you have experience in supervising and managing members of the psychology team?

This post offers the opportunity to be part of our crisis and home treatment services in West London.The post holder would be joining the psychology team comprising of a Principal Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Associate in Psychology based in the Hounslow team.

The post-holder will work collaboratively and proactively with the multi-disciplinary team to manage risk robustly and to provide a psychological perspective to the care provided.Along with providing assessment, formulation and brief interventions to service users and their families. Ref lective practice, team formulation, consultation, and post incident support are an integral part of the psychology service.

The post holder will be the supervisor and line manager for the Clinical Associate in Psychology.There will also be opportunities to provide placements for trainee clinical psychologists from the North Thames courses and students from the MSc in Early Intervention in Psychosis at the IOPPN

Main duties of the job

Hounslow Crisis Assessment and Home Treatment Team provides a service for adult service users experiencing mental health crisis requiring intensive home based support and treatment.The service aims to prevent service users requiring a hospital admission.Therefore, part of the role will entail providing assessments and brief interventions in service user’s homes.

MAIN DUTIES

· Providing a full and comprehensive psychology service providing direct care to service users and their families offering assessment, formulation, risk assessment and brief evidence based interventions when indicated.

· Offer indirect work ensuring that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to a psychological framework for understanding the service user’s needs.This will be provided by giving psychological advice, consultation, contributing in clinical meetings and team formulation.

· Developing the MDT’s knowledge and skills to use a psychological approach to a service user’s care through teaching, training and where needed supervision.

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information including the job description, please see the attached recruitment pack in attachments

Person specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology or its equivalent, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS and/or Accredited psychological practitioner with at least 3 years of experience.
• Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council and/or equivalent registering body.
• Training in clinical supervision for doctoral, and equivalent, trainees
• Training in the supervision of psychological therapies
• Evidence of post-doctoral training in psychological therapies relevant to severe and enduring mental health difficulties including for example DBT/ CBT-P/ Systemic Practice.

Experience

• Post qualification experience of working in mental health settings delivering specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions across a range of settings including community, primary care, inpatient, crisis services.
• Experience of working with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course presenting with a range of psychological problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to assistant/trainee or qualified psychologists, and/or other professionals.
• Experience of working in acute mental health services (inpatient wards, HTT, crisis intervention services, psychiatric liaison).
• Experience of teaching/training
• Experience of facilitating reflective practice to teams
• Post qualification experience and/or training in working with adults affected by psychological trauma.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge and awareness of the trauma informed approach
• Knowledge of QN-CRHTT standards and accreditation process.
• Knowledge of quality improvement methodology
• Knowledge of quality improvement methodology

As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.

We reserve the right to close adverts prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to West London NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, you will be required to undergo a pre-employment checks which can take between 4-8 weeks . After which your information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system (ESR ).

Please ensure you include email addresses for your referees which MUST be at supervisory or managerial capacity covering the last 3 years of employment to date to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We encourage the thoughtful use of technology as a demonstration of strong time management and a commitment to innovation. However, we encourage applicants to personalise their recruitment application to showcase their unique skills and experiences.

While AI-generated content can be a helpful tool, relying solely on generic responses instead of highlighting your own strengths and achievements may impact the success of your application. The success of an application will always be assessed against the essential and desirable criteria for the role, so it is important to ensure that your application and any supporting information clearly demonstrate how you meet these requirements.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Name Gemma Allison Job title Head of Psychological Services - Acute Mental Email address [e-mail]

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Address West London NHS Trust
Trust HQ, 1 Armstrong Way
Southall, UB2 4SD
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