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    Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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    Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
    Employer Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Location Harrow Salary £49,178 to £55,492 a year pa inc HCAS Closing date 29 May 2024

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

    (should be inpatient ward) 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.

    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 Psychological Professions community.
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    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.

    Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

    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.

    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.

    Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

    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.

    upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of

    rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

    To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

    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 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 experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service as agreed with the professional psychology manager
    To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate
    To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists
    To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate

    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
    To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service valuation and audit
    To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures
    To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists
    To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision

    The post holder will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual statistical data and provide this to the service manager/Head of speciality when necessary.

    To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s)

    To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop 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.

    To maintain 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 HPC standards, professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, and Trust policies and procedures.

    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.

    The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, proceduresand guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safetyand Confidentiality of Information, clinical governance including research governance

    Training and Qualifications

    Doctoral level training in clinical Psychology, or BPS Chartered Status for counselling psychologists, including specifically models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS or equivalent psychotherapy training.

    Training in clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology.
    Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

    Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
    Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.

    Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

    Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.

    Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

    Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

    Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc). High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
    Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
    High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.

    Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

    Hold a current full driving license and have access to a car or other suitable transport for use at work.

    Ability to identify and articulate own training needs


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