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The post holder will support the local team in delivering psychological services to children and young people and their families who are referred into the locality team.

This may include assisting with assessments and/or appropriate therapeutic interventions within the H&F neurodevelopmental and learning disabilities team.

You would be joining a large and welcoming psychology team in West London NHS Trust who are committed to service improvement, staff well-being, and who value diversity in our workforce.

Staff are currently working in combination from home and our specific borough bases. Annual Leave starts at 27 days per year plus Bank Holidays.

The job is located in Hammersmith. The post-holders will be based at 48 Glenthorne Road, where CAMHS is based. Remote working is possible.

Post holder will work flexibly from the clinic base and from home or through outreach work in the community, schools and clients' homes if required.

• To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological intervention and/or management of a client's difficulties, under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist.
• To undertake consultation with multi-agency professional colleagues in supporting their understanding of how to use outcome measures in their clinical practice, interpreting outcome measures in the context of a formulation for that client, and how to use outcome measures to support the development of a therapeutic intervention and to track progress through the intervention.
• To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and/or multi-agency meetings

Research and service evaluation

• To assist in the design and implementation of evaluation, audit and research projects
• To develop systems for collecting data from children, parents, teachers and clinicians prior to, and following, intervention, and for ensuring the highest possible return rates
• To undertake data entry, analysis, the production of evaluation reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes

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're rated 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.

The regulations mandating vaccination for in-scope roles in the NHS have now been removed.

The Trust does however continue to encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

Vaccination data will be collected by our recruitment team during your on-boarding if you are happy to provide a copy of your COVID pass.

The post holder will be working within the Neurodevelopmental and Learning Disabilities (NDLD) Team in H&F CAMHS.

They will join an excellent and well-established NDLD team staffed by experienced multi-disciplinary workers, including Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Mental Health nurses, Consultant Psychiatrist, specialist psychiatric doctors, and professionals from child psychotherapy and family therapy as well as another Assistant Psychologist, a recruit to train mental health worker and a Trainee Clinical Psychologist.

They will attend NDLD team meetings, wider CAMHS multidisciplinary meetings and psychology meetings in line with their job plan.

They will be part of the thriving psychology team based in H&F CAMHS compromising of Tier 2/Tier 3 Clinical and Counselling Psychologists.

The post holder will offer a range of psychological services and support to children, young people and their families in the neuro-developmental/learning disabilities (NDLD) team, embedded within Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS (Tier 3).

This will include undertaking and contributing to psychological and neuro-psychological assessments, developmental assessments, home and school based observations, and contributing to diagnostic assessments including ADHD under clinical supervision.

This will include administering and scoring standardized measures such as the CONNERS questionnaires for ADHD assessments. The post-holder will have a key role in helping to administer the QB computer based tests as part of wider diagnostic ADHD assessments and for both administering and manag

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