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' overall by 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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

We are looking for someone to offer maternity cover in Adopt London West RAA (Regional Adoption Agency). This is an established partnership service comprising the London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and Hounslow and hosted by the London Borough of Ealing. The service recruits' adopters and 'family finds' for children across the partner agencies and will offer support services to adoptive and special guardianship families.

Every child has the right to a safe and supportive family life and Adopt London West aspires to promote best practice across its adoption and special guardianship support services. We are seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to support the team to excel and whom is committed to innovative practice and building empathic, respectful and trusting relationships to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and adoptive families.

The clinical psychologist will join the existing Adopt London West Clinical Psychologists who are themselves part of the wider Brighter Futures Psychology Service based in Ealing's Childrens Social Care. The role is based in Ealing, with across London travel and hybrid working is encouraged. The post holder will be supported and supervised by the Principal Clinical Psychologist for Brighter Futures.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The team values are a committed, empathic and trauma-informed approach to the work with children, their carers, families and the professional network. Applicants must be keen to facilitate service development and be open to develop new ways of working, demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in their approach to their work and team life and be willing to practice in a collaborative way. A key aspect of this work is a committed, empathic and trauma-informed and responsive approach with children young people and their parents and the team, building on strengths and resiliencies.

Offering consultation to develop reflective thinking and sharing complex psychological formulation in an accessible way is a key skill within this role. The role will also include delivering training and skills development sessions for social workers, supporting therapeutic parenting approaches, facilitating groups and providing a specialist and intensive assessment, support and intervention service for the children, young people, adoptive parents and the network around them. The Adopt London West Team have been trained in Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) and the post holder will be expected to attend this and any available trainings to support the development of an attachment and trauma-informed model of practice, as well as offering a range of other interventions suitable for adopted children and their families. This a varied role which offers the opportunity for service development, leadership skills and working with teams/ systems around adopted children, young people and their families.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society
• Eligible to work as a Practitioner Psychologist as approved by the Health Care Professions Council
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, (e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, in patient settings)
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Child Clinical Psychology Lead
• Experience working with children and young people in a CAMH setting

Desirable

• Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Experience of teaching, training
• Experience of offering supervision to other psychologists
• Experience of working with other agencies
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working with adopted children or care experienced children
• Experience of working in Social Services settings

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently 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 clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS (dependent on grade)

Desirable

• Knowledge and skills in specialist psychological assessment and treatment of specific groups (e.g. looked after children, adopted children, children with disabilities)
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and families and mental health
• Knowledge of application of therapeutic models to care experienced children who may have a history of trauma, loss and/or attachment difficulties

OTHER

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• material and challenging behaviour. Commitment to provide support to children, their families/carers and linked professionals and maintain high levels of aspiration for LAC population
• Willingness to work flexibly when necessary
• Commitment to working flexibly and collaboratively with team colleagues and to support innovative ways of working
• To approach clients with empathy and adaptability and to be open to development of new approaches to work with clients

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework

Employer details

Employer name

West London NHS Trust

Address

Ealing CAMHS

1 Armstrong Way

London

UB2 4SD

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222-LS-CAMHS-580