An exciting opportunity has arisen for motivated and creative individuals, who are looking to develop specialist skills in an innovative and expanding service:

Band 8a Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist in the Tri-Borough Perinatal Service

This is an innovative award winning service delivering new models of specialist care within in West London NHS Trust. Perinatal Mental Health services have received significant new funding from NHS England, with the largest expansion of posts being within psychological therapies. This is in recognition of the choices and preference for psychological interventions of women accessing perinatal mental health services. It is due to this large expansion that we are looking to fill the current posts.

The role will be based in Hounslow with the need to flexibly/attend meetings at the other team locations across the Trust.

This would be an ideal opportunity for an excellent clinician who has experience at Band 7 or 8a previously to work in a new area and to gain exposure/enhance their knowledge and skills with the support of a highly specialised team which will help the post holder to develop their own specialist skills in Perinatal Mental Health.

We will support successful candidates to develop a bespoke training programme to facilitate their development within the post.

Main duties of the job

Provide assessments of patients referred to the Perinatal Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.

To provide a comprehensive psychological therapy service to patients within the perinatal service who may have a wide range of psychological needs. This will include the provision of evidence-based treatments for trauma (Trauma focussed CBT or EMDR).

To provide evidence based interventions to women, couples and families, where appropriate, considering the specific needs of families who are pregnant or have a young baby.

Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both the evidence base, theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have shaped the individual, family or group.

To be responsible for implementing a range of time-limited psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of a range of theoretical approaches.

Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to women's formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To provide supervision to more junior psychology colleagues including assistant and trainee psychologists.

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 over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

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

• oPost-graduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent) in Clinical Psychology OR Counselling Psychology
• oEligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society
• HCPC registered or, for those outside the UK, eligible and will be registered by the time of taking up post.

Desirable

• oPost-doctoral training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• oTraining in trauma focussed interventions
• oTraining in couples interventions
• Advanced keyboard skills and computer literacy

Experience

Essential

• Relevant post qualification experience in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
• oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
• oExperience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• oExperience of working with people with mental health problems
• oExperience of facilitating therapeutic groups
• oDemonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical / counselling psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Psychology and Psychological Therapies Services

Desirable

• oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• oExperience of the application of clinical /counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
• oExperience of working with parent infant attachment focused interventions e.g. video interaction guidance.
• oExperience of using structured techniques for promotion of health behaviour change such as motivational interviewing
• oExperience of running structured psycho-educational group-based interventions

Knoweldge

Essential

• oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• oWell-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• oSkills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• oDoctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
• oEvidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• oFormal training in supervision of other psychologists

Desirable

• oKnowledge of NHS primary and secondary care structures
• oKnowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• oHigh level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• oKnowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)

Employer details

Employer name

West London NHS Trust

Address

West Middlesex Hospital

Isleworth

TW7 6AF

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