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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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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)
Cysylltu
- Address
- 350 Euston Road
- Regent's Place
- London
- London
- NW1 3AX
- Contact Number
- 02032145700
Clinical Psychology Lead for MTLCS
Closed for applications on: 17-Medi-2024 00:01
Statws y swydd wag: Closed
Closed for applications on: 17-Medi-2024 00:01
Manylion allweddol
Lleoliad
- Gwefan
- St Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing
- Cyfeiriad
- Exmoor Street
- Tref
- London
- Cod post
- W10 6DZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Llundain
Math o gontract a phatrwm gwaith
- Contract
- Cyfnod Penodol: 12 mis (12 months fixed term for full time 1.0 WTE post)
- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos (Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm)
Cyflog
- Cyflog
- £70,387 - £80,465 per annum inc HCAS
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Arbenigedd
- Prif leoliad
- Clinical Psychologist
- Dyddiad y cyfweliad
- 17/10/2024
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. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
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.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are pleased to offer this opportunity for a 1 year fixed term 8b Principle Clinical Psychologist to experience leading our Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Team. This is a therapy led team of qualified therapists, trainees/assistant therapists and midwives who work together to support women and birthing people during the perinatal period who are experiencing symptoms related to trauma, loss or tokophobia. This post offers a balance between clinical work, supervision, service development, senior management team working, leadership, line management and areas of specialist interest for the service.
We are a close team who work supportively of each other. The successful candidate would be warmly welcomed and supported in this role by both the team and the professional leads and senior managers of the CNWL Perinatal Mental Health Services. We would see this both as a much welcomed support to our MTLCS service for the year contract and an opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to develop their skills and experience in an 8b leadership post.
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The post holder will be responsible for the provision of a specialist clinical/counselling psychology service for patients under the care of the Maternal Mental Health Service. Responsibilities will include the provision of specialist psychological assessments and therapies, the provision of specialist risk assessments, and the provision of psychological advice and consultation to others involved in patient care. They will also be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision and governance of psychology services within the service.
The role will encompass managerial, clinical, professional, financial and developmental aspects, requiring the post holder to work in collaboration with local maternity services and the directorate clinical and management team and others to use resources in the most effective way, to free up capacity for clinical work and ensure an optimum level of care is achieved.
As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will be responsible for their own clinical and non-clinical work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies.
Please see attached documentation for a broader overview of the main duties of this role.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Service launched in 2021 to offer a perinatal mental health service that specifically focuses on supporting women and birthing people who have and are experiencing trauma, loss, complex grief and anxiety related to tokophobia in relation to the perinatal period. The service recently celebrated their third birthday and are now a well established and supportive team of therapists and midwives.
Our services operate Monday-Friday; 9.00am-5.00pm and we are looking for someone to join our MTLCS service full time.
Values
COMPASSION: contribution to a caring and kind environment and recognition that what you do and say can help to improve the lives of others.
RESPECT: acknowledge, respect and value diversity of each individual, recognition of uniqueness.
EMPOWERMENT: continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. The Trust endeavours to support all staff to enable them to develop and grow.
PARTNERSHIP: work closely with others and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and fund our work.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
The post-holder will:
· Hold clinical responsibility for the women under the care of the Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Service (MTLCS).
· Oversee and lead the delivery of psychological interventions within the MTLCS, ensuring adherence to the evidence base.
· Provide operational leadership and management to the staff within the MTLCS, in collaboration with the MTLCS Lead Midwife for NWL.
· Provide psychological leadership within the MTLCS, in collaboration with their counterpart in CNWL, including clinical supervision for all clinical staff in the service.
· Provide clinical and line management supervision to the psychological therapists and non-clinical staff within the MTLCS.
· Ensure psychological and trauma informed perspectives form part of service development and delivery.
· Ensure that psychological interventions are in line with local and national guidance for the client group.
· Provide data reporting on psychological interventions and their outcomes within the service to managers, commissioners and to NHSE at regular intervals as required.
· Develop and sustain the psychological therapy pathways between the MTLCS and Perinatal Mental Health Services, third sector organisations and other local services including IAPT, Primary Care and Recovery Services.
· Lead on the provision of training to Maternity colleagues in trauma informed approaches to maternity care.
· Lead on research, audit and clinical governance tasks for the service.
· Co-lead, in collaboration with their counterpart in West London and MTLCS Lead Midwife for NWL and any relevant others, in formulating a report of the formal evaluation of the MTLCS.
Vaccination
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.
- 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.
- Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system
- 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.
Gofynion yr ymgeisydd
Manyleb y person
Training and Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Educated with a psychology degree awarded with a minimum 2:1. Eligibility for graduate membership of BPS (A)
- Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS (A)
- Post-doctoral qualification or training in an evidence-based treatment for trauma such as CBT for PTSD or EMDR (A)
Meini prawf dymunol
- Evidence of post-doctoral training in training related to tokophobia, complex grief/loss, birth trauma or similar related area.
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of working with grief, trauma and phobias.
- Experience of having facilitated/co-facilitated psychological therapy groups (A/I)
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision (A/I)
- Experience working as a qualified (specialist) Psychologist for a minimum of three years, including at least one year's post qualification experience as a qualified Psychologist within a Clinical Psychology setting (or equivalent) (A/I)
- Experience in the clinical supervision of trainee Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and/or qualified Psychologists (A/I)
- Experience of working with women in the perinatal period as a qualified clinician (A/I)
- Experience or working with diversity, promoting inclusion and diversity and enhancing equity and access to services
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working in PMHS services
- Experience of having facilitated/co-facilitated psychological therapy with families and couples (A/I)
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts (I)
- Experience of line management (A/I)
- Experience of delivering psychological interventions to people experiencing trauma (A/I)
- Experience of supporting or leading a QI project
- Experience of working within a Trauma Informed Care framework
Knowledge and Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Advanced specialist knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of psychology applied to clinical practice (I)
- Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of the assessment and treatment of people experiencing complex trauma, grief, loss and phobia
- 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 (I)
- Able to make judgements involving highly 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), where expert opinions may differ (I)
- Advanced level use of databases, word processing and test administration/scoring software. Good experience of using Excel.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of the assessment and treatment of families and partners of women in the perinatal period (A/I)
- Knowledge of the experiences of women during the maternity journey including the socio-political narratives around childbirth and motherhood (A/I)
- Knowledge of recent research and papers of influence related to the perinatal journey and trauma and loss during this period e.g. MBRRACE report and the birth trauma report
Dogfennau
- MTLCS 8b CP Lead Job Description (PDF, 432.4KB)
- MTLCS 8b CP Lead Person Specification (PDF, 320.4KB)
- CNWL Staff Networks (PDF, 320.0KB)
- CNWL Values (PDF, 182.9KB)
- CNWL Reward and Wellbeing Handbook 2020 (PDF, 1.1MB)
- CNWL Staff Charter (PDF, 684.7KB)
- CNWL Culture SCARF Behaviour Framework (PDF, 710.2KB)
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Nicole Stokoe
- Teitl y swydd
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07791613754
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