Clinical/counselling Psychologist or Cbt Therapist - 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

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The post-holder will work predominantly within the Complex Mental Health (CMH) pathway, with opportunities to contribute to the Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) pathway.

In their role within the CMH Pathway, the post-holder will be expected to provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy (individual and group interventions) to address the complex needs of our clients and their various systems in support of their ongoing recovery.

Our service is located within a densely-populated borough in North-West London with an ethnically-diverse population, and our clients present with a range of problems requiring formulations and interventions that are tailored to their particular set of needs.

As such, flexibility and creativity are values that are particularly appreciated within the pathway.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users and we will therefore be seeking proof of vaccination or medical exemption during the recruitment process.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

This is an exciting new post that will provide the opportunity to provide psychological services to improve short and long-term outcomes for service users with a range of problems requiring formulation and interventions tailored to their particular need.

The post-holder will be expected to provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions (including formulation and care planning where appropriate) and advice, consultation and training on aspects of psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines as well as advice, family interventions and consultation to non-professional carers.

The CMH pathway is a newly-developed area of service provision and the post-holder will have an opportunity to be involved in shaping and developing its ongoing evolution to ensure it remains flexible and responsive to people's needs.

As a colleague in the CMH pathway the post-holder will be attached to a particular MDT whilst under the management and support of an integrated psychological therapies service.

As such they will have contact with colleagues who deliver individual, group and family therapies from a wide range of interesting theoretical models working within the other two psychological therapies pathways (Complex Emotional Needs and Psychosis).

Our service is committed to investing in the development of excellent clinicians and there are opportunities for career development including post-qualification training in an evidence-based model.

Alongside relevant CPD opportunities, clinical and management supervision is available to support flexible and skilled practice.

The CMH and CEN treatment pathways are newly-developed areas of service provision and the post-holder will have an opportunity to be involved in shaping and developing their ongoing evolution to ensure the service remains flexible and responsive to people's needs.

Clinical responsibilities:

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 evidence-based psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering 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' formul