Clinical/counselling Psychologist Harrow Memory - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

To provide a qualified psychology service primarily to Older Adults with complex and enduring mental health problems living within the London Borough of Harrow; providing highly specialist psychological assessment, neuropsychological assessment, and therapy in the contexts of a multidisciplinary community mental health team (CMHT).

To offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development, and research within the area served by the team.

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Clinical:

To provide specialist quality psychological practice for older adults, their families and associated services within the Harrow Memory Service and the Harrow Older Adult Home Treatment Team.

CNWL has a strong culture of support and CPD within our OA Psychology community.

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.

Clinical:

To provide specialist psychological 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 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 based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
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
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
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 psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
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 according to Trust Policy
To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care
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 ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the clients of diverse community backgrounds.

Teaching, training, and supervision

To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues
To gain additional highly specialist exper