Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom West London NHS Trust Full time
Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist

Employer West London NHS Trust Location SOUTHALL Salary £49,178 to £55,492 per annum inclusive of HCAS Closing date 16 May 2024

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist/AHPs who have completed their CBT-ED PG Cert to further develop their clinical and leadership skills by joining our Community Eating Disorders Service.
This is an exciting time to join our service as it is going through significant developments and expansion. Apart from developing your clinical skills, you will support the development and delivery of an innovative offer for people with mild eating disorders which is integrated within the core community mental health transformation model. You are encouraged to be involved in supporting the implementation of our FREED service. You will also be offered CPD opportunities relevant to your role. The post is an excellent opportunity to gain the necessary experience to progress further in your career. We welcome applications from 3rd year trainee psychologists (recruited at Band 6 until HCPC registration comes through).

Main duties of the job

To provide highly specialist assessments of patients referred to Eating Disorder service

To formulate and implement treatment plans

To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups

To undertake on-going risk assessment and management of patients

To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services

To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical/counselling psychology

To participate in data collection, audit, service evaluation and clinical research designed to improve the effectiveness of services delivered to patients

To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists

To provide advice, consultation, teaching, training and clinical supervision to staff both within and outside the eating disorder service

To make a contribution to service development projects

About us

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). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is 426m.

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Honours degree (2:i minimum) in Psychology
  • Full registration with the Health Professionals Council
  • Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
  • Qualification level that would allow acceptance as a BPS chartered clinical psychologist status
  • Training in clinical supervision for Doctoral, and equivalent, trainees

Desirable

  • Advanced keyboard skills
  • Other related academic qualifications
  • Evidence of post-doctoral training in psychological therapy techniques

Experience

Essential

  • Experience working as a qualified psychologist including post qualification experience as a qualified psychologist within a setting that provides direct clinical experience with eating disorders.
  • To have an interest in working with people who have an Eating Disorder and their families/carers.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of having facilitated/co-facilitated psychological therapy groups
  • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

Desirable

  • Experience in delivering DBT.
  • Quality improvement training and implementation

Knowledge and skills

Essential

  • Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of psychology, including eating disorders and personality disorders
  • 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 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)
  • Able to plan, prioritise and organise own service user caseload, treatment programmes involving other staff, and other aspects of the work such as research activity
  • Knowledge of SPSS
  • Keyboard skills
  • Psychomotor skills necessary to administer complex psychological tests and video equipment
  • Able to use database, word processing and test administration/scoring software
  • Post-graduate level knowledge of research design and methodology
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Able to function in potentially traumatic circumstances and in highly emotionally distressing circumstances on a frequent basis (e.g. in dealing with service users with serious mental illness, self-harm, histories of sexual abuse)
  • Able to respond adaptably to rapidly changing service demands
  • Knowledge of the professional code of conduct of the BPS
  • Willing to participate actively in CPD in line with BPS guidelines
  • Experience of working within a multicultural framework

Desirable

  • Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books

Employer details

Employer name

West London NHS Trust

Address

Eating Disorder Central

St Bernards

SOUTHALL

UB1 3EU

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