Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/ CBT Therapist
Posted 8 days 21 hours ago by CNWL
Permanent
Part Time
Healthcare & Medical Jobs
England, United Kingdom
Job Description
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Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
There's a place for you at CNWL.
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/ CBT Therapist NHS AfC: Band 8a Main area Psychologist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours
Site Stowe Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 Pro rata per annum incl. Inner HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 03/11/:59
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the CNWL eating disorders service. We are offering a fixed term part time Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/ CBT Therapist post within the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service.
Main duties of the job This position involves providing specialist therapies to clients across all sectors of care, although the majority of the work will be with outpatients.
This includes the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, whilst also offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues and to other non professional carers. The post holder will be responsible for line management and clinical supervision to attached supervisees while working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams' policies and procedures. In addition, the post will require skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service. The post holder will work as part of a multi disciplinary team providing assessment and treatment to adults with eating disorders.
Working for our organisation The post holder will be based at the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service and will provide clinical and other services across the inpatient, day patient and outpatient programmes. Depending on service need, you may be expected to work flexibly across sites (Paddington, Chelsea and Harrow on the Hill clinics). Service provision within this scope may at times involve travelling to different sites within the catchment area.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities Clinical:
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
There's a place for you at CNWL.
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/ CBT Therapist NHS AfC: Band 8a Main area Psychologist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Compressed hours
Site Stowe Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 Pro rata per annum incl. Inner HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 03/11/:59
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the CNWL eating disorders service. We are offering a fixed term part time Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/ CBT Therapist post within the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service.
Main duties of the job This position involves providing specialist therapies to clients across all sectors of care, although the majority of the work will be with outpatients.
This includes the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, whilst also offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues and to other non professional carers. The post holder will be responsible for line management and clinical supervision to attached supervisees while working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams' policies and procedures. In addition, the post will require skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service. The post holder will work as part of a multi disciplinary team providing assessment and treatment to adults with eating disorders.
Working for our organisation The post holder will be based at the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service and will provide clinical and other services across the inpatient, day patient and outpatient programmes. Depending on service need, you may be expected to work flexibly across sites (Paddington, Chelsea and Harrow on the Hill clinics). Service provision within this scope may at times involve travelling to different sites within the catchment area.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities Clinical:
- To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex 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).
- To diagnose patients' eating and related psychiatric problems.
- 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. To employ methods based upon evidence of efficacy across inpatient, day patient and outpatient settings.
- To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. This occurs 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.
- 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.
- To integrate (with the psychological formulation) an understanding of the medical aspects of the eating disorders and associated medical conditions.
- To liaise with other clinicians involved in the patient's care, in order that appropriate physical checks and interventions are carried out to ensure the patient's physical safety.
- To understand the role of relevant physical treatments (e.g. nutrition, pharmacology).
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi disciplinary care.
- To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
- To lead on psychological thinking and psychological treatment provision in our inpatient ward and day programme.
- To receive regular clinical and operational supervision from the team's Lead Psychologist and where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To attend Staff Group with other colleagues in the service.
- To develop skills in the area of professional post graduate teaching, training and supervision
- To provide line management to attached band 7 therapists.
- To provide clinical supervision to band 7's and other MDT staff's psychological work, as appropriate.
- To provide clinical placements for appropriate trainees, ensuring that they 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.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainees and assistants.
- To contribute to the pre and post qualification teaching of other professionals, as required by the head of specialty.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. . click apply for full job details