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About
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London's population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire.
As a Foundation Trust we involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run and our future development. If you are interested in becoming a member of our Foundation Trust please visit: www.cnwl.nhs.uk
(source: Central and North West London NHS Foundation NHS Trust website)
Principal Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist - HMYOI Feltham A
Accepting applications until: 26-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 26-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- HMYOI Feltham
- Address
- Bedfont Road
- Town
- Feltham
- Postcode
- TW13 4ND
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £64,408 - £73,961 per annum inc. Outer HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Specialty
- Main area
- Psychology
Job overview
Are you looking for new challenges? Do you want to feel that you really make a difference? Are you someone with a passion for trauma-informed work, who wants to be part of changing young people’s lives?
This might be the job for you… We are looking for a Principal Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist to join us as part of the integrated Health and Wellbeing team within HMYOI Feltham.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be part of this innovative model and also to use all of your clinical and interpersonal abilities, develop new skills and work with young people and staff who need and deserve high quality psychological care.
You could make a difference. This is a varied role working within a rich multidisciplinary team using a formulation-driven, trauma systems approach according to the SECURE STAIRS framework, within the YOI.
The post is based primarily on Feltham A (15-18 year-old boys), though may be required to provide some consultancy and support to the wider healthcare team across the site.
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.
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Working within an integrated team affords us the benefit of being able to work in a truly holistic and responsive manner. The post holder will have previous experience in a relevant setting. They will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation to non-psychologist colleagues.
The post holder will be responsible for leading on the provision of a psychologically-informed treatment approach on residential units within the establishment. This will include supporting staff to develop skills in reflective practice and understanding of key theories, such as trauma-informed care and adolescent development. The successful candidate will have excellent oral and written communication skills; and a proven ability to make evidence-based, informed decisions within a complex, rapidly changing and demanding environment.
It takes a very special, dedicated, resilient and caring clinician to provide care in such an intense, dynamic environment and you will be joining like-minded exceptional healthcare professionals in a dedicated and supportive team.
Experience working with children with additional neuro-developmental needs, such as Learning Disabilities (LD), ADHD, social communication and Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) would be beneficial to this role due to the diverse needs of the population.
Working for our organisation
Our motto? Caring not judging.
What we Offer
- Excellent training and development
- Ongoing supervision and appraisals
- Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies
- Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and relocation package. We are also proud to support our employees with continued professional development opportunities and further education subject to service needs.
- We welcome flexible working.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will have excellent oral and written communication skills; and a proven ability to make evidence-based, informed decisions within a complex, rapidly changing and demanding environment. The post-holder will be expected to act as part of the senior leadership team, providing supervision and support to multi-disciplinary team members within the service and contribute to the strategic vision of the service. You will also be expected to contribute to the multi-disciplinary CPD programme.
See attached Job Description for further details.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Education & Quailifcations
Essential criteria
- • An honours degree in Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- • Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling/forensic psychology or equivalent, including specifically models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, equivalent to that accredited by the BPS.
- • Evidence of significant post-qualification specialist training, experience and developing expertise in a specialist area of clinical practice relevant to this role.
- • HCPC Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- • Completion of supervisor training course.
Desirable criteria
- • Other relevant CPD qualifications, pre- or post-training. Especially training in working with people with trauma and/or neurodiverse presentations, research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Other
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work in a secure environment, in line with HMPS policy and procedures and obtain and maintain enhanced security clearance.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Paid/unpaid relevant to job
Essential criteria
- • Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist including at a highly specialist level or an alternative agreed by the Chief Psychologist
- • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- • Experience of teaching and training.
- • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
- • Experience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings.
- • Advanced knowledge, experience and expertise in at least one relevant specialist area of clinical practice gained through specialist training and supervised practice (e.g. psychotherapy, neuropsychology, risk assessment, clinical supervision).
- • Experience of leading on projects of service design or improvement.
- • Experience of leadership, management and supervision of trainees and qualified staff including those from other disciplines.
- • Experience of working together with service users to ensure that they are equal partners in service design, evaluation, research and training
- • Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of institutional dynamics
- Research/publications on relevant issues.
- Experience of working indirectly with staff groups
- Experience of working within secure environments and/or forensic mental health and of supporting and developing psychological services in such
- Experience of working with children
- Expertise in delivering gender sensitive services
- Experience of using a trauma informed approach
- Experience and expertise in in the specialist area of learning disability and/or neurodiversity.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- • Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- • 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.
- • Possesses range of clinical knowledge, skills & information technology expertise relevant to demands of senior post.
- • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- • 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.
- • Broad knowledge of models of assessment, management and treatment of those in the criminal justice system with mental health difficulties and personality disorder.
- • Ability to work intensively with people who present challenges in the complexity of their problems and needs, including sexual and violent offending and self-harming and suicidal behaviours.
- • High level of ability to plan and organise clinical service provision to meet service demands, and to maintain high quality professional practice.
- • Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the forensic population as recommended by the HCPC.
- • An understanding of the social determinates of health inequalities and relevant psychological theory and practice
- • Excellent IT skills.
Desirable criteria
- • Well developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups.
- • Can apply psychological knowledge creatively in developing new initiatives.
- • Ability to write reports for varied audiences, including courts and purchasers of services.
ATTITUDES, APTITUDES PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Essential criteria
- • Excellent interpersonal skills.
- • Ability to work flexibly according to changing demands and to work well within a team.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ellena Cooke
- Job title
- Consultant Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 844 5347
- Additional information
For further information or to arrange an informal visit contact Ellena Cooke, Consultant Psychologist, on 020 8844 5347 or [email protected]
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