Job summary
Exciting new opportunity for Clinical/Counselling Psychologists in the MINT teams in Claybrook Centre, Hammersmith & Fulham, West London NHS Trust
We are seeking a Band 8A Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in one of our new Mental Health Integrated Network (MINT) teams. These teams are innovative and cover both primary and secondary care adult mental health provision. The post involves providing psychological assessments and treatment to adults with a wide range of problems, including Personality Disorders, Complex Trauma, Psychosis and other mood disorders. It also involves broader liaison and joint working with services including IAPT and external agencies to deliver on supporting psychological needs in a variety of ways.
Main duties of the job
The post holder would be a member of one of three MDTs in Hammersmith & Fulham, and would be expected to contribute to the development and delivery of treatment pathways within these teams, and to support the teams more generally in formulating and caring for service users.
The psychology team aims to offer a range of evidence-based treatments for the above disorders, including CBT, CBT for psychosis, CFT, ACT, Trauma- Focused CBT, EMDR and DBT. Training in all these therapies is made available, delivered by expert external providers, and supported with the necessary specialist supervision.
As well as working within an MDT, the post holder will be part of the wider MINT psychology team, covering the three MINT teams in Hammersmith & Fulham. This includes clinical and counselling psychologists, CBT therapists, and clinical associate psychologists, assistant psychologists, psychology students and trainee psychologists. We work together in delivering evidence based group therapies and fostering space for reflective practice. You will also develop close working relationships with other local psychologists in related services.
As already mentioned, there is an excellent CPD programme. Time is set aside for CPD, and training is available in therapies such as EMDR, DBT and CBT for psychosis, which can lead to accreditation in these therapies
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What we can offer you:
- The Trust offers a new and unique benefits package which includes lease cars, discount cards for high street stores, supermarkets, holidays and days out.
- As a Trust we will provide you with clinical supervision, on-going professional development, a stimulating and challenging working environment and opportunities for career development within West London NHS Trust.
- We can offer bespoke training in relation to community mental health care.
- A unique opportunity to broaden experience and develop skills in our community services
The post-holder will contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
The post-holder will be responsible, as a member of the psychology service, for the provision of a full and comprehensive specialist psychology service to culturally diverse service users with severe and enduring mental health disorders. They will contribute to meetings where referrals and service users presentations are discussed, providing specialist psychological assessments and therapies and advice on risk management, and consultation to other colleagues involved in service users care. Furthermore, the psychological support includes a well-developed group programme with groups for different levels of mental health and emotional difficulties and the post-holder will have the opportunity to facilitate some of them.
The post holder will work as a clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, including appropriate attendance at team and other service user related meetings. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What we can offer you:
- The Trust offers a new and unique benefits package which includes lease cars, discount cards for high street stores, supermarkets, holidays and days out.
- As a Trust we will provide you with clinical supervision, on-going professional development, a stimulating and challenging working environment and opportunities for career development within West London NHS Trust.
- We can offer bespoke training in relation to community mental health care.
- A unique opportunity to broaden experience and develop skills in our community services
The post-holder will contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
The post-holder will be responsible, as a member of the psychology service, for the provision of a full and comprehensive specialist psychology service to culturally diverse service users with severe and enduring mental health disorders. They will contribute to meetings where referrals and service users presentations are discussed, providing specialist psychological assessments and therapies and advice on risk management, and consultation to other colleagues involved in service users care. Furthermore, the psychological support includes a well-developed group programme with groups for different levels of mental health and emotional difficulties and the post-holder will have the opportunity to facilitate some of them.
The post holder will work as a clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, including appropriate attendance at team and other service user related meetings. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good honours degree (2:1 minimum) in Psychology.
- Eligibility for graduate membership of BPS
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- Training in clinical supervision for doctoral, and equivalent, trainees
Desirable
- Other related academic and post-graduate qualifications
- Evidence of post-doctoral training in psychological therapy techniques (i.e. EMDR, CBT for psychosis, DBT)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified (specialist) psychologist in a relevant clinical setting
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of having facilitated/co-facilitated psychological therapy groups
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of administration, scoring and written interpretation of psychometric / neuropsychological tests
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced specialist knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of psychology applied to clinical practice
- Completion of supervised practice in specialist clinical practice
- Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of the assessment and treatment of complex mental health problems
Desirable
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for work in relevant setting
Skills
Essential
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- Able to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the evaluation of a range of options (e.g. the assessment of specialist clinical conditions and the determination of treatment options), Where expert opinions may differ
- Able to plan, prioritise and organise own service user caseload, treatment programmes (individual or group) involving other staff, and other aspects of the work such as research activity
- Able to use database, word processing and test administration/scoring software
- Able to sit for lengthy periods of time while demonstrating active listening skills
- Able to maintain intense concentration frequently and for prolonged periods
- Able to function in highly emotionally distressing circumstances on a frequent basis (e.g. in dealing with service users with serious mental illness, histories of homicide and serious violence, self-harm, sexual abuse)
Desirable
- Working knowledge of SPSS
Other Requirements
Essential
- Knowledge of the professional code of conduct of the BPS
- Must be capable of being guided by precedent, clearly defined policies, procedures and codes of conduct
- Able to reflect on own professional practice
- Willing to participate actively in CPD in line with BPS guidelines
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good honours degree (2:1 minimum) in Psychology.
- Eligibility for graduate membership of BPS
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- Training in clinical supervision for doctoral, and equivalent, trainees
Desirable
- Other related academic and post-graduate qualifications
- Evidence of post-doctoral training in psychological therapy techniques (i.e. EMDR, CBT for psychosis, DBT)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified (specialist) psychologist in a relevant clinical setting
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of having facilitated/co-facilitated psychological therapy groups
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of administration, scoring and written interpretation of psychometric / neuropsychological tests
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced specialist knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of psychology applied to clinical practice
- Completion of supervised practice in specialist clinical practice
- Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of the assessment and treatment of complex mental health problems
Desirable
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for work in relevant setting
Skills
Essential
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- Able to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the evaluation of a range of options (e.g. the assessment of specialist clinical conditions and the determination of treatment options), Where expert opinions may differ
- Able to plan, prioritise and organise own service user caseload, treatment programmes (individual or group) involving other staff, and other aspects of the work such as research activity
- Able to use database, word processing and test administration/scoring software
- Able to sit for lengthy periods of time while demonstrating active listening skills
- Able to maintain intense concentration frequently and for prolonged periods
- Able to function in highly emotionally distressing circumstances on a frequent basis (e.g. in dealing with service users with serious mental illness, histories of homicide and serious violence, self-harm, sexual abuse)
Desirable
- Working knowledge of SPSS
Other Requirements
Essential
- Knowledge of the professional code of conduct of the BPS
- Must be capable of being guided by precedent, clearly defined policies, procedures and codes of conduct
- Able to reflect on own professional practice
- Willing to participate actively in CPD in line with BPS guidelines
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
