Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Practitioner (Band 8a 37.5hours/week)

Acute Mental Health Services

Based in Ealing Crisis Assessment and Home Treatment Team

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 a tri-borough crisis assessment and home treatment service with the post being based in the Ealing team. The service is working towards accreditation from the Quality Network for Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams, and the post holder would be actively involved in ensuring the psychological standards are met and maintained.

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. Reflective practice, team formulation, consultation, and post incident support are an integral part of the psychology service.

Main duties of the job

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

About us

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is �426m.

The Trust is rated as 'Good' overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 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 CBT therapist with the BABCP with at least 3 years of experience.
• Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council and/or equivalent registering body.

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• 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.

Desirable

• Experience of working in acute mental health services (inpatient wards, HTT, crisis intervention services, psychiatric liaison).
• Experience of teaching/training.
• Post qualification experience and/or training in working with adults affected by psychological trauma

Employer details

Employer name

West London NHS Trust

Address

ECHATT

SOUTHALL

UB1 3EU

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