Assistant Psychologist

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom West London NHS Trust Full time

The post holder will support delivering psychological services to children and young people and their families who are referred to the locality team. This may include assisting with assessments and/or appropriate therapeutic interventions within the H&F ITBSS 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 values diversity in our workforce. West London employs psychologists in a full range of settings including primary care, secondary care, inpatients and forensic services. This means there is ample opportunity for networking with colleagues and sharing expertise. You will receive Clinical Supervision from one of our Specialist Clinical Psychologists. You will be encouraged to join relevant borough Psychology Meetings and other relevant meetings. We have good links with the North London Clinical Psychology training courses and offer placements to trainees within our service.

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

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 post holder will be working within the ITBSS Team in H&F CAMHS. They will join an excellent and well-established wider 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 other Assistant Psychologists, 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. This will include undertaking and contributing to psychological assessments and home and school-based observations.

The post-holder will work closely and liaise with the client’s network, including with multi-agency professionals from education, social care, the voluntary sector, and the local child development services. They will also be involved in delivering therapeutic and evidence-based interventions in line with their level of experience, with children, young people and families with NDLD and comorbid mental health difficulties, and co-running groups for parents and children.



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