Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

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Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist NHS AfC: Band 8a Main area Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 333-J-KC-0892-A

Site St Charles Centre for Health Town London Salary £64,156 - £71,148 per annum inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 27/10/: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

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Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Home Treatment Teams across Westminster & Kensington and Chelsea. The teams works alongside inpatient and community mental health services to offer an increased level of support to those experiencing a mental health crisis outside an inpatient setting. The team supports service users living in their own homes and step down accommodation across the boroughs.

The post-holder will work collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) and colleagues from other services to manage risk and to provide a psychological perspective to care, along with providing assessment, formulation and brief interventions to service users and their families. The post-holder will also support and work with the team to develop a range of psychologically informed interventions. The post holder will also be integral to decisions and delivery about reflective practice, team formulation/consultation and post incident support.

The service is proud to be accredited by the Quality Network for Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (QNCRHTT) with the Royal College of Psychiatry; The post holder would be actively involved in ensuring the psychological standards are met and maintained.

The post holder will be the supervisor for the Assistant Psychologists and other psychological professionals in the team. Along with providing a placement for a trainee clinical psychologist from the North London training courses.

Main duties of the job Providing a full and comprehensive psychology service providing direct care to service users and their families offering assessment, formulation, risk assessment and brief evidence based interventions when indicated.

Offer indirect work ensuring that all members of the MDT have access to a psychological framework for understanding the service user's needs. This will be provided by giving psychological consultation, contributing in clinical meetings and team formulation.

Developing the MDT's knowledge and skills to use a psychological approach to a service user's care through teaching, training and where needed supervision.

Work as an integrated clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, which will include responsibility for ensuring the systematic provision and governance of a high quality specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychology service.

Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.

Working for our organisation The population served by Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster Mental Health Services is ethnically diverse with significant ethnic minority, immigrant and refugee communities. Parts of the catchment area are characterised by extensive socio-economic deprivation and high rates of psychiatric morbidity. There is a disproportionate provision of supported accommodation for people with mental health problems with associated demands for psychiatric and psychological support and treatment. There are also significant levels of psychiatric co-morbidity in the area, with in particular high levels of substance misuse with associated difficult treatment and management issues.

The post holder will be expected to travel across the Boroughs, liaising closely with other operational managers and psychological services.

Clinical assessments and intervention may be carried out in a number of physical settings including, inpatient wards, other community bases and patients' homes. Work includes liaison and working with both client systems and professional networks involved with a range of complex issues such as those involving clients with significant severe and enduring organic and/or functional mental health difficulties which may involve emotional and behavioural disturbance, acute and chronic physical and mental illness, some progressive (e.g. dementia) where the resolution of the problem is not possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post-holder will be based in the Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Home Treatment Teams and will be part of both the boroughs' Mental Health Services and acute mental health psychology teams, supervised by the Acute Psychology Lead. Home Treatment Teams provide a service for adult service users experiencing mental health crisis requiring intensive home-based support and treatment. The service aims to enable clients to be cared for at home during crisis, rather than needing to go into Hospital. The service also supports clients in their transition from hospital back to their homes.

Therefore, the post holder will be required to travel to service users' homes.

The post-holder will be responsible for providing a psychological therapy service providing direct care to service users and their families offering assessment, formulation, risk assessment and brief evidence-based interventions when indicated. This will include providing recommendations for psychological therapy to support service user's recovery.

The post-holder will also offer indirect work ensuring that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to a psychological framework for understanding the service user's needs. This will be provided by giving psychological consultation, contributing in clinical meetings and team formulation. Thus, contributing to the formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans of service users.

The development of the psychological framework in the multidisciplinary team will be supported by teaching, training and supervision provided by the post-holder and the wider crisis and borough psychology teams.

The post holder will work as an integrated clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, which will include responsibility for ensuring the systematic provision and governance of a high-quality specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychology service.

The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The post holder will participate as a senior clinician and be an integral part of the leadership team involved in the development and delivery of a high-quality service. Supervision of the two assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists will be included as part of this role. It will also include being present and contribute to clinical and senior team meetings . click apply for full job details