Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | West London NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 28 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £59,490 - £66,239 Per Annum Inclusive of 15% HCAS |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 27 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, UB2 4SD |
| Cwmni: | West London Mental Health Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7240654/222-LS-CAMHS-622A |
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If you’re already an 8a in general CAMHS and looking for a different kind of role or a band 7 looking for a development opportunity, this exciting role in Adopt London West may be for you! We are seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist for an innovation project to developa therapeutically informed social work intervention model across Adopt London’s support teams.The role will be focus on enhancing the quality and consistency of social work practice and provide a high quality clinical psychology offer. There is a strong emphasis on trauma-informed and relationship based practice and this role offers the opportunity to develop and utilise skills outside of direct 1:1 therapy (although there will still be opportunity for this) including; providing case consultation with social work teams and wider networks, deliver training and workshops to support therapeutic thinking and practice, co-delivering therapeutic parenting groups and providing a brief intervention model to families. There will be excellent training opportunities, including Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) and the post will be supervised and supported by the Lead Psychologist for the project. The role is based in Ealing, with some across London travel and hybrid working is supported and encouraged
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. Offering consultation to develop reflective thinking and sharing complex psychological knowledge 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, developing psychologically informed plans and collecting and presenting qualitative and quantitative evaluation data. 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 to support a therapeutically informed social work model. 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. The post holder will be supported and supervised by the Principal Clinical Psychologist.
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’re rated 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.
See full job description in supporting documentation
Clinical:
1. To provide specialist psychological services to adopted children and their carers referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complexdata from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, including foster carers, school staff, other staff of the Education Authority and other workers in health, social services and the voluntary sector.
2. To formulate and implement plans for psychological support for adopted children who have emotional or behavioural difficulties or a mental health disorder, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. Support and plan for a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and network, within and across services employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about psychological support options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Jun 2025