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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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)

Contact

Address: 350 Euston Road; Regent's Place; London; London; NW1 3AX
Contact Number: 02032145700

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Jobs Website

Open

Ref: 333-G-CA-1592 Vacancy ID: 7456745

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Accepting applications until: 22-Sep-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 22-Sep-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Brent CAMHS
Address: Monks Park Health Centre, Monks Park
Town: Wembley
Postcode: HA9 6JE
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible Working can be negotiated in line with CNWL's Flexible Working Policy)

Salary

Salary: £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum Incl. HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Clinical/counselling psychology

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, environmental and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

The post holder will be providing care to clients to liaise and work with family members and others involved in the client’s care, including CAMHS colleagues, frontline workers in health, education, Social Services, inpatients services and the voluntary sector. The applicant will exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. You will be expected To provide specialist psychological and / or mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

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.

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 and Qualifications

Essential criteria

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro- psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist: Clinical, Counselling Psychologist or Health Psychologist

Desirable criteria

Post Doctoral training in CYP-IAPT Therapy Training
Post Doctoral training in ADOS-2/ 3Di
Post Doctoral training in TF-CBT/EMDR

Previous Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity around mental health concerns across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Supervised experience of evidence based treatment in relation to children with mental health concerns
Experience of working within a multidisciplinary Specialist CAMHS team and of proving specialist CAMHS assessment and intervention.
Experience of delivering evidence based treatment using a range of modalities in a number of cultural contexts.

Desirable criteria

Experience of assessing for Neurodevelopmental disorders incl. ASD and ADHD
Experience of providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other therapies to young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and other neurodevelopmental differences (e.g. Learning Disabilities)
Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including diagnoses and formulations to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance and as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Experience of assessing mental health risk and safeguarding concerns.
Training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy acquired during Doctorate Qualification and / or trained to minimum diploma level
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology

Desirable criteria

High level knowledge of the theory and practice of other specialised psychological CAMHS or family treatments
Knowledge and experience of research methodology
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Experience of planning and delivery group treatments.

Personal

Essential criteria

Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by psychology services within the context of multi - disciplinary mental health services
Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others
Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills .
Treating service users with respect and dignity at all times
Enthusiastic, flexible , confident and ethical approach to working .
Able to prioritise own workload and meet performance requirements for the role
Willingness and ability to learn new skills ; adapt flexibly to change and support others’ upskilling journey.