Clinical Psychologist

The Ealing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for Learning Disabilities (CAMHS LD) team is a small, expanding, well respected, supportive, hard-working team based at Carmelita House (London W5 2PJ), which is a multi-agency service that provides assessment and intervention for children and young people with disabilities and their families where there are concerns about emotional, behavioural and psychological difficulties, including challenging behaviours, mental health difficulties and social/family difficulties. We have excellent links with our colleagues in Education, Health and Social Care and we work collaboratively and jointly for many of the clients under our care. The team believe strongly in the importance of accessible, equitable, high quality care for the children and young people of Ealing who have a Learning Disability.


Carmelita House is in a convenient central Ealing location, very close to many transport options, shops and green spaces. Ealing CAMHS-LD comes under the organisational management of Ealing CAMHS, which is a well-established multidisciplinary Specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service which is based at 1 Armstrong Way, Southall, UB2 4SA.


You are welcome to apply for full time or part time hours.
As part of this role, the post holder will also offer clinical work in our intensive intervention service (The Intensive Therapeutic and Short Breaks Service, ITSBS), which aims to enable children with Learning Disability and challenging behaviour to remain in the community, preventing family placement breakdown and a move to residential care. This service is a collaboration between Clinical Psychology from Ealing CAMHS-LD team and Social Care for Children with Disabilities (based in ESCAN). It has been running for over 10 years with successful outcomes, and the Local Authority has allocated funding for the continuation of this work.


The successful applicant will form part of the Clinical Psychology Supervision Structure and will offer supervision and line management to more junior staff (where appropriate). As a Highly Specialist CAMH Clinical Psychologist you will have responsibility for supporting the development of junior staff and students.


The ITSBS is continuing to develop as a model in line with the Transforming Care Agenda and so will provide opportunities for the post-holder to significantly contribute to service development. The Clinical Psychologist will be expected to be able to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.


Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). The Trust is rated as 'Good' overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.


The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Qualifications and Training
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or equivalent if trained overseas.
Eligible to work as a Practitioner Psychologist as approved by the Health Care Professions Council
Training in supervision

Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.


Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families across a range of care settings, (e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, in patient settings).
Experience of working with children, adolescents and their families which will have involved maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Experience working with children, adolescents (and their families) with learning disability and/or neurodevelopmental conditions (eg. Experience working as a specialist clinical psychologist in CAMHS.
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience of working in a number of ways i.e. assertive outreach, clinic based settings, home, school or other appropriate environments
Experience of assessing risk and formulating safe and effective risk management plans
Further specialist experience in CAMHS, for example Experience of providing direct and indirect therapeutic support to children, young people or adults (and their families/networks) who present in crisis and have provided therapeutic input to prevent inpatient admission.
Experience working with children, adolescents (and their families) with a suspected or diagnosed eating disorder.
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Experience of working with children/young people with special educational needs and challenging behaviour or mental health difficulties and their families.

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and intervention with children, young people and 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.
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Knowledge of legislation in relation to children/families, mental health and children's social care.
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC (dependent on grade).

Knowledge and skills in specialist psychological assessment and treatment of specific groups e.g. those in crisis, have a suspected or diagnosed eating disorder and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties, or specialist skills in working with children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Knowledge of application of therapeutic models to children who have special educational needs.
Knowledge of application of therapeutic models to children who have special educational needs/Learning Disability/Autism

Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Commitment to provide support to children, their families/carers and linked professionals and maintain high levels of aspiration for the population referred to the service.
Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers

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