Job summary
A full-time, fixed-term 18-month apprenticeship role, Band 5 in training, with potential progression to Band 6 on qualifying.
- Are you a talented psychology graduate who is passionate about using your psychological knowledge to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people in Central and North West London?
- Are you looking for an alternative to the Clinical Psychology doctorate training route to become a qualified applied psychologist in the mental health of children and young people?
- Do you have at least a 2:2 psychology degree eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) with the British Psychological Society (BPS)?
- Can you bring knowledge and experience of the local communities CNWL NHS Trust serves to your work?
- We especially welcome applications from Black Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as we are seeking to ensure our psychology staffing has greater diversity and better represents local communities
Vaccination
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment process. Vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an exemption applies.
Main duties of the job
As part of our commitment to address social inequalities in health, we are particularly seeking to employ psychology graduates with the drive to make a significant contribution to this key priority. These posts are explicitly intended to support the increased access to psychological interventions for children, young people and their families in the community, including people from black and minority ethnic communities, who may be less well served by existing services. Candidates with the valuable experience of the diverse social and cultural communities the Trust serves, which are currently under represented in our psychology staff groups (including those with the ability to provide care in any of the languages of local communities) will be supported to develop their careers and flourish as valued members of our services. There are a number of support systems within the Trust including staff peer networks.
This new psychologist role will be central in helping services meet the planned significant increase in psychologically underpinned high-quality health care as envisaged in the NHS Long Term Plan. As an apprentice you will receive supervision from a qualified clinical psychologist while you are working in our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, delivering interventions in line with your developing skill and competence.
About us
CNWL is excited to be offering some of the first opportunities in England for talented and passionate psychology graduates to join NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health services as Apprentice Clinical Associates in Psychology (Child CAPs). This is a completely new route into practising as an applied psychologist in the NHS and offers psychology graduates another valued route into clinical practice. As an apprentice you will be working and being paid full time while you complete a Masters qualification at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), the full fees for this will be paid.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On qualification you will be eligible to work as a (Band 6) Clinical Associate in Psychology in one of our CAMHS teams, delivering psychologically based interventions both directly with service users and their families and supporting other colleagues in the team to do so.
You will have 2 days off the job training over a period of 18 months to complete the RHUL Masters Programme and the related Masters research project. Across the Trust there will be up to 3 apprentice clinical associates in psychology who we will support to develop through the apprenticeship into qualified members of our wider psychology professional group.
This will be a highly rewarding opportunity to train as an applied psychologist in CAMHS while working full time and learning though the apprenticeship. Providing valuable care for service users in our communities, you will have an influential role in the delivery and development of services that will make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families.
Successful candidates must be able to begin their employment with the Trust no later than 03.01.2022 in order to start the RHUL MSc in latter part of January.
Interview date: tbc - via zoom
Candidates will be enrolled on the Clinical Associate in Psychology Masters programme at RHUL the fees for which will be paid, and must therefore be eligible for University UK Home Fees
Job description
Job responsibilities
On qualification you will be eligible to work as a (Band 6) Clinical Associate in Psychology in one of our CAMHS teams, delivering psychologically based interventions both directly with service users and their families and supporting other colleagues in the team to do so.
You will have 2 days off the job training over a period of 18 months to complete the RHUL Masters Programme and the related Masters research project. Across the Trust there will be up to 3 apprentice clinical associates in psychology who we will support to develop through the apprenticeship into qualified members of our wider psychology professional group.
This will be a highly rewarding opportunity to train as an applied psychologist in CAMHS while working full time and learning though the apprenticeship. Providing valuable care for service users in our communities, you will have an influential role in the delivery and development of services that will make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families.
Successful candidates must be able to begin their employment with the Trust no later than 03.01.2022 in order to start the RHUL MSc in latter part of January.
Interview date: tbc - via zoom
Candidates will be enrolled on the Clinical Associate in Psychology Masters programme at RHUL the fees for which will be paid, and must therefore be eligible for University UK Home Fees
Person Specification
Education and Training
Essential
- An approved qualification in psychology conferring eligibility for graduate basis for chartership (GBC) with the British Psychological Society, with either a Bachelor's degree (Class 2.2 or higher)
- Attained at least Level 2 Maths and English (equivalent to GCSE grade 9-4 (A*-C))
Desirable
- Attendance at specialist short courses relevant to the post (e.g. MBT or DBT, Trauma Informed Care, Group approaches)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of work in the NHS or outreach work, or local engagement work (e.g. youth worker, mentoring, peer support etc), experience of working in voluntary sector, working in community groups.
- Work with client groups with serious mental health problems: omental health care and/or oworking with carers and/or odelivering therapeutic group interventions and/or oworking in MDTs and/or oAudit, evaluation or research.
- Work in multi-cultural settings
Desirable
- oExperience that supports working with the local communities of the Trust / Borough / Service. (This may be gained in an employment, voluntary, educational or research capacity).
- oWork with voluntary / community organisations.
- oWork with interpreters
- oLived experience of mental health issues as a service user or carer
- oWork with behaviours that challenge services
- oWork with people with complex emotional needs (personality disorder)
- oConducting service-related research
Person Specification
Education and Training
Essential
- An approved qualification in psychology conferring eligibility for graduate basis for chartership (GBC) with the British Psychological Society, with either a Bachelor's degree (Class 2.2 or higher)
- Attained at least Level 2 Maths and English (equivalent to GCSE grade 9-4 (A*-C))
Desirable
- Attendance at specialist short courses relevant to the post (e.g. MBT or DBT, Trauma Informed Care, Group approaches)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of work in the NHS or outreach work, or local engagement work (e.g. youth worker, mentoring, peer support etc), experience of working in voluntary sector, working in community groups.
- Work with client groups with serious mental health problems: omental health care and/or oworking with carers and/or odelivering therapeutic group interventions and/or oworking in MDTs and/or oAudit, evaluation or research.
- Work in multi-cultural settings
Desirable
- oExperience that supports working with the local communities of the Trust / Borough / Service. (This may be gained in an employment, voluntary, educational or research capacity).
- oWork with voluntary / community organisations.
- oWork with interpreters
- oLived experience of mental health issues as a service user or carer
- oWork with behaviours that challenge services
- oWork with people with complex emotional needs (personality disorder)
- oConducting service-related research
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).
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).
