Job summary
Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist interested in working with people with Learning Disabilities within the London Borough of Brent?
This will be an excellent opportunity for a newly qualified Clinical/Counselling psychologist to join a supportive and diverse multidisciplinary team, which will provide opportunities to consolidate their training as well as develop their professional competencies.
We are looking for someone who will provide a specialist clinical psychology service to people with learning disability and their families/carers including assessment, development and implementation of specialist psychological interventions.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. 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.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for completing comprehensive specialist assessments and evidence based therapeutic interventions to adults with learning disabilities, their families and paid carers .
Responsible for carrying out specialist face to face cognitive psychometric assessments as necessary and interpret the results of these, in order to make appropriate formulations, recommendations and planning appropriate evidence based interventions
Demonstrate that they are able to plan and prioritise own clinical workload and work within a multi- disciplinary setting
To ensure that the needs for patients are met while taking into consideration a holistic person -centred approach and create a therapeutic setting which is most appropriate to the client and/or service needs.
Responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. service users, families, carers, other professionals, and statutory and voluntary organisations) orally, in writing and electronically, and as specified by the service.
About us
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CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy & policy, & many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. With us, you will get -
A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.
An opportunity to work for one of the top 10 NHS employers
Flexible working
Variety of work
Access to a variety of CPD opportunities.
As a Trust we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation wide. Psychological professions staff are able to access a range of trust-wide CPD initiatives. We have partnered with Bespoke & Contextual Consulting to provide some of the profession specific CPD, alongside additional CPD sessions we commission as part of CNWL CPD programme for Psychological Professions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Roles
- Ensure a high standard of clinical care to adults with learning disabilities and provide a comprehensive and appropriate psychological input directly to clients, families and carers
2. Play a key role in the advanced assessment and treatment of clients who may have acute, chronic or complex presentation and determine clinical diagnosis and intervention required
3. Assess clients needs and direct to other services as appropriate
4. Maintain records as an autonomous practitioner
5. Communicate effectively with health and social care professionals and outside agencies regarding client care and progress
6. Communicate with other members of the Team regarding policies, service development and management plans
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Roles
- Ensure a high standard of clinical care to adults with learning disabilities and provide a comprehensive and appropriate psychological input directly to clients, families and carers
2. Play a key role in the advanced assessment and treatment of clients who may have acute, chronic or complex presentation and determine clinical diagnosis and intervention required
3. Assess clients needs and direct to other services as appropriate
4. Maintain records as an autonomous practitioner
5. Communicate effectively with health and social care professionals and outside agencies regarding client care and progress
6. Communicate with other members of the Team regarding policies, service development and management plans
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level of training in either clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent), as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence
- Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Post-doctoral training in a relevant field
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical/ counselling psychologist, including experience of working in a health care setting
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment.
- Experience of working with multidisciplinary team
- Experience in the application of psychological approaches for different social and cultural groups.
- Knowledge of specialized assessment and therapeutic approaches in learning disability
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of liaison with other health professionals
Desirable
- Strong professional interest in the link between physical health, intellectual abilities and mental health
- Experience of working with learning disability and autism and mental health
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with mental health and learning disability, autism and other neurodevelopmental disorder (inpatient/outpatient)
- Experience of providing teaching, training or clinical consultations to psychologists and other professional groups.
- Commitment to continuing professional development, to partnership working and to reflective clinical practice.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessments & interventions with CYPs with complex Mental Health, Neurodiversity and Learning needs, as well as their families.
- 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
- Well-developed skills in adapting communication, assessment and intervention skills to meet the specialist needs of the client group
Desirable
- Good knowledge of theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media material for presentations in public, professional and academic meeting
- A capacity to establish priorities and organise workload effectively and efficiently
Other
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of contributing to service development initiatives
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level of training in either clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent), as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence
- Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Post-doctoral training in a relevant field
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical/ counselling psychologist, including experience of working in a health care setting
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment.
- Experience of working with multidisciplinary team
- Experience in the application of psychological approaches for different social and cultural groups.
- Knowledge of specialized assessment and therapeutic approaches in learning disability
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of liaison with other health professionals
Desirable
- Strong professional interest in the link between physical health, intellectual abilities and mental health
- Experience of working with learning disability and autism and mental health
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with mental health and learning disability, autism and other neurodevelopmental disorder (inpatient/outpatient)
- Experience of providing teaching, training or clinical consultations to psychologists and other professional groups.
- Commitment to continuing professional development, to partnership working and to reflective clinical practice.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessments & interventions with CYPs with complex Mental Health, Neurodiversity and Learning needs, as well as their families.
- 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
- Well-developed skills in adapting communication, assessment and intervention skills to meet the specialist needs of the client group
Desirable
- Good knowledge of theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media material for presentations in public, professional and academic meeting
- A capacity to establish priorities and organise workload effectively and efficiently
Other
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of contributing to service development initiatives
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).
