Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist- CAMHS-LD

CNWL; London; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in London, providing high-quality psychological care to children and young people with learning disabilities. You'll work in a multidisciplinary team, focusing on innovative and evidence-based interventions. This role offers opportunities for professional development and a commitment to diversity and inclusion in healthcare.

Benefits

Generous relocation package

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Significant experience as a qualified clinical psychologist.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment.
• Act as care coordinator for children with learning disabilities.
• Liaison and consultation with various stakeholders.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Clinical Supervision

Research Skills

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology

Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist

Job description

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We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist- CAMHS-LD

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area Allied Health Professionals Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 333-G-CA-1550

Site Monks Park Health Centre Town London Salary £59,490 - £66,239 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T) Salary period Yearly Closing 23/05/2025 23:59

Job overview

The post-holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team, embedded within the Brent CAMHS Learning Disability Pathway that delivers a high quality, evidence based and effective psychological care to individuals being treated under the team pathway. The role includes the provision of specialist psychological assessment, therapy, advice and consultation on children and young people psychological care. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post-holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service providing high level clinical leadership across the service, working closely with the team, families and multi-agency professionals to improve emotional and holistic well-being delivering highly innovative and adaptive evidence based psychological interventions. The post-holder will develop opportunities to offer consultation to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals and carers within the young people’s network, working autonomously within professional guidelines . Working alongside services involved in the children and young people to coproduce creative activities and person centre care plan. Embracing new ways of working will be key to respond to the needs and aspirations of children and young people it serves.

Main duties of the job

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.

The responsibilities of this role are diverse and there are multiple levels to the work including:

• Direct work with children, young people with learning disabilities and autism and their families/cares
• Liaison and consultation work with a wide range of stakeholders, including special education school, 0-25 children with disabilities team, SENCO, SENDAS, and commissioners
• Teaching and training
• Providing clinical supervision
• Working strategically with senior leads within the team and Trust to improve the quality of treatment and intervention given to the children and young people with learning disabilities and autism, and their families and carers

Working for our organisation

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. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook on our website

The Brent CAMHS team has a strong multi-disciplinary approach and thrives on innovative practice to meet the local population needs. The Team has robust links with neighbouring borough CAMHS teams as well as universities and local partners

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please see full job description for further information**

• To act as care coordinator for a caseload of children and young people with learning disability and autism and significant mental health needs.
• To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist assessment and treatment for children and adolescents with severe/profound learning disabilities and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
• To formulate and implement plans for formal clinical treatment and management of behaviours difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of these problems employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy within modality and with reference to appropriate clinical guidelines and care pathways (e.g. NICE, CEG).
• In liaison with colleagues and in response to an identified need, to provide specialist systemic psychological and clinical autonomy drawing on a range of models and wherever possible brief intervention. To practice in a way which is inclusive and considerate of the needs of each individual in the system including family members and their varying network.
• Regularly monitor and evaluate therapeutic interventions and progress using routine outcome measures and include family members as appropriate.
• To evaluate and make decisions about the treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, environmental and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

Person specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence
• Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Post-doctoral training in a relevant field

EXPERIENCE

• Significant experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist, including experience of working in a health care setting
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment (A&I) Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams (A&I) in physical health
• Strong professional interest in the link between physical and mental health
• Knowledge of specialized assessment and therapeutic approaches in learning disability
• Experience of working with learning disability and autism and mental health Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with mental health and learning disability, autism and other neurodevelopmental disorder (inpatient/outpatient)
• A knowledge of the mental health difficulties
• Experience in the application of psychological approaches for different social and cultural groups
• Experience in group work
• Experience of supervising psychologists (including trainees) and having completed the relevant training.
• Experience of providing teaching and training to psychologists and other professional groups.
• Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity including experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Experience of proposing and Experience of liaison with other health professionals. (A & I) Experience of community engagement and use of feedback to adapt psychological service provision (I) Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit and other service evaluation projects (A) Experience of successful development of business cases leading to the commissioning of new services (A&I) Experience of staff recruitment and selection A&I implementing service development projects within own service area
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC
• Experience of liaison with other health professionals
• Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit and other service evaluation projects
• Experience of successful development of business cases leading to the commissioning of new services
• Experience of staff recruitment and selection

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, relevant individuals from their wider systems, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of delivering psychological interventions to specific groups and communities (e.g. individuals who identify as BAME, NHS staff)
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team setting at a high level, hold leadership role and contribute to effective team functioning Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data and for teaching purposes
• Ability to develop and use complex multimedia material for presentations in public, professional and academic meeting
• A capacity to establish priorities and organise workload effectively and efficiently
• Experience of leading specific projects within a clinical service
• Experience of providing day to day management and support to junior psychologists
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical health psychology

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 our Benefits, 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.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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