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Principal Clinical or Forensic Psychologist

Employer
West London NHS Trust
Location
SOUTHALL
Salary
£56,164 to £65,262 a year per annum pro-rata plus HCAS
Closing date
23 Feb 2023

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We are seeking an experienced Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist to work as a multidisciplinary team member for two low secure pre-discharge wards for male service users who are preparing to make the transition to living in the community. This is a permanent post for 30 hours per week (0.8wte) but a further 7.5 hours (0.2wte) can be offered to interested applicants on a fixed term basis. This would be up to a one year fixed term period initially, with a strong possibility of renewal.

West London NHS Trust provides a broad range of forensic mental health care in adult male, female and adolescent services, across high, medium and low security settings, as well as in a community and court diversion setting. The Trust provides specialist forensic mental health care across eight boroughs in North West London, in addition to national enhanced medium and high secure services. The posts are based in the low secure service, which provides 72 beds across assessment, rehabilitation, and pre-discharge wards.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for providing a high quality psychology service to two pre-discharge wards in the Men's Low Secure Service. As a core member of the MDT, you will provide specialist psychological assessments and therapies, specialist risk assessment and advice on risk management, and the provision of psychological advice and consultation to others involved in service user care. As such you will be able to utilise varied skills in assessment, formulation and evidence-based intervention, tailored to meet the challenging needs of the inpatient client group. As well as individual ward-based work, the post holder will contribute to a well-established cross-ward group therapy programme.

As well as direct clinical work, the role will involve staff supervision, consultation and training, service development and audit, and collaborative working with MDT colleagues and the psychological therapies department. There are also opportunities for research within WLFS.

About us

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.

We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

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.

Job description Job responsibilities

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK. It provides a broad range of forensic mental health care in adult male and female services, across high, medium and low security settings, as well as in a community and court diversion setting. West London Forensic Service has been rated as outstanding by the CQC.

Psychology plays a valued and integral role within West London Forensic Service. We are committed to providing high quality, evidence-based interventions within a recovery framework. The psychological therapies department, which comprises a team of over 30 psychologists and psychological therapists, is well-established and supportive with high standards of clinical supervision and excellent opportunities for continuing professional development.

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.

You will work as a qualified psychologist on two pre-discharge wards in the Mens Low Secure Service, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to culturally diverse service-users with enduring mental health difficulties and offending histories within secure care.

You will hold a doctorate in clinical, counselling or forensic psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or forensic psychology equivalent, as accredited by the BPS. You will be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

You will have substantial experience of working as a qualified psychologist in a forensic clinical setting or equivalent, providing specialist psychological assessments (including risk assessment and management), individual and group therapies, and psychological advice and consultation to others involved in service user care.

For further information, please contact Dr Yvonne Linney, Psychology Lead for Mens Low Secure & Community, on yvonne.linney@westlondon.nhs.uk

Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS &TRAINING Essential criteria
  • Doctoral level training in clinical/forensic/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developments as accredited by the BPS.
  • Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist.
  • Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training including training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.


Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of post-doctoral training in psychological therapy techniques
  • Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.


EXPERIENCE Essential criteria
  • Substantial post-qualification experience in a forensic inpatient setting or similar
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, such as outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.


Person Specification QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING Essential
  • Doctoral level training in clinical/forensic/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developments as accredited by the BPS.
  • Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist.
  • Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training including training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
Desirable
  • Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
EXPERIENCE Essential
  • Substantial post-qualification experience with the client group of the post or a related client group.
  • Experience and formal training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, such as outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
  • Highly experienced in risk assessment, management and planning.
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client 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.
Desirable
  • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
  • Experience in the assessment and treatment of personality disordered patients.
  • Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
  • Experience in undertaking investigations (including serious untoward incidents, disciplinary incidents and complaints)
  • Experience of consultation and/or supervision within a multi-agency context
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS Essential
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
  • Able to make judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the evaluation of a range of options (e.g. the assessment of specialist clinical conditions and the determination of treatment options)
  • Able to plan, prioritise and organise own patient caseload, treatment programmes involving other staff, and other aspects of the work such as research activity.
  • 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.
  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group, mental health and child protection.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable
  • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
  • Skills in undertaking investigations
  • Knowledge of SPSS


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