Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	30 Mai 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£70,387 - £80,465 Pro rata per annum incl. HCAS
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	29 Mehefin 2025
Lleoliad:	London, W10 6UX
Cwmni:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Cytundeb
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7241418/333-G-CA-1555

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We are looking for a 0.5 wte Clinical Psychologist at Band 8b to join the Family Assessment and Support Team under a Service Level Agreement.

In joining the Multidisciplinary Family Assessment Service you will be part of a small MDT made up of a manager and two full-time senior practitioners from a social work background, and two-family support workers who bring skills and experience in parenting work and early years. In addition, there is Adult Psychiatric input into the team.

The team is based within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and will accept referrals from the borough’s social workers in locality teams.

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This is post is for the in-house multi-disciplinary family assessment service with complex needs as part of legal proceedings. The focus of the team will be on undertaking in depth assessments of need, parenting capacity and potential for change on families with complex needs.

The clinical psychology role will be to provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology input to the team and contributing to the assessment of individual children and their families from a psychology perspective. It is envisaged that the role will involve undertaking complex assessment work as a component of a wider assessment, but there will be a need to work both independently and as part of a multi-professional team.

The post holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research and support the team to develop a specialised area of practice.

Excellent negotiation, analytical and communications skills will be required to ensure that assessments undertaken enable clear plans to be made for the child/ren to remain with their families or provide sound evidence to inform the decision-making process within legal proceedings.

Provide and contribute to comprehensive reports for courts under the Public Law Outline and, where necessary, attend court for cross-examination at the final hearing.

Our offer to you

Benefits of working at CNWL NHS Trust include:
• Commitment to career development
• Wide range of leadership development opportunities
• Up to 41 days of paid leave per year, depending on length of NHS service, includes bank holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 14.5% of pensionable pay
• NHS pay progression
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption leave over and above the statutory minimum requirements
• Sick pay up to a maximum of six months full pay and six months half pay
• Childcare vouchers– annual savings
• Commitment to flexible working
• 24/7 free confidential advice and support service
• Freedom to speak up ‘Guardian Service’, enabling you to safely discuss any concerns impacting on patient care
• Exclusive health service discounts for NHS staff
• Salary sacrifice cycle scheme
• Access to free recovery and wellbeing courses

The Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) is responsible for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental health Services (CAMHS) to the populations of Brent, Hillingdon, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster, as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to other Trusts and Agencies, and to a wider regional catchment area.

Role and responsibilities

Focus is on assessment, not treatment.

Main focus would be on providing specialist assessments of clients to the team where there is a need for a psychological assessment.

The psychologist’s role is likely to involve undertaking a component of a wider family assessment to which they would also be making a contribution.

This is likely to be in relation to the psychological and emotional needs of children.

Impact of the parental issues/needs on the child/children.

A developmental perspective of the needs of the child/children- now and in the future.

KEY RESULT AREAS



Clinical:


1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data 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.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams 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 treatment 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.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
8. To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging care plan reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
10. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.



Teaching, training and supervision


1. To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
2. To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to recently qualified clinical and/or counselling psychologists attached to the team.
3. To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients’ functioning.
4. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology as appropriate.
5. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.
6. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development
1. To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
2. To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to a team, whether in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of patients.
3. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
4. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees and qualified clinical psychologists.
5. To take responsibility for the work of community psychologists within the tier 3 CAMHS, managing and supervising their work. To take specific responsibility for developing and implementing procedures of the multi-disciplinary service including referrals team, triage assessments, clinical audit, project evaluation and clinical outcomes.
6. To take responsibility for projects to develop existing and new services being delivered out in the community (eg. Education, Primary Care).
Information technology
1. To use computers and computer software to prepare reports and documents relevant to working duties.
2. When required to enter data into Trust patient administration systems and to work using databases in the course of clinical duties.

Research and service evaluation

1. To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the team’s operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.

2. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

3. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.

4. To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families.

General

1. To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.

2. To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.

3. To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.

4. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.


This advert closes on Friday 13 Jun 2025

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