Assistant Psychologist

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

North West London Intensive Care Unit Psychology is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist to join this sector wide project.
This part time (0.8wte) Assistant Psychologist post will be a vital clinical and administrative component of designing and delivering the project to scope current ICU Psychology Services, discover how psychology might best support the multi-disciplinary team, and co-design psychoeducation and supervision guidance for the sector.
There is the possibility for hybrid working arrangements.
The NWL ICU Psychology services offers psychological assessment and support to patients and relatives, to improve both short-term and long-term outcomes from ICU, including quality of life. Support, consultation and training are needed for ICU clinical staff, who are known to be at high risk of work-related stress or burnout, especially in the wake of the pandemic. Consequently, a professional psychology team to provide psychological assessment and support for patients, families and critical care staff is essential. Currently, there is great variation in the provision of ICU psychology services across the sector. The North West London Critical Care Network Group have commissioned this project to scope out what services currently exist, to liaise with the various multidisciplinary teams about how best psychology might support their work, and to co-design psychoeducation and supervision guidance for the sector.
The Assistant Psychologist will collate and manage data streams relevant to the project, liaise with colleagues across the sector and support the project lead in designing and developing a psychoeducation programme for healthcare professionals. There will be some scope for direct clinical work supervised by the ICU Psychology Lead.
This work will be supervised by the Interim Deputy Head of Clinical Health Psychology and there will be the opportunity to network with the group of Assistant Psychologists already working in Clinical Health Psychology in the Trust.
CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy. Many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. With us, you will get -
A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.
An opportunity to work for one of the top 10 NHS employers
Flexible working
Variety of work
Access to a variety of CPD opportunities.
As a Trust we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation wide. Psychological professions staff are able to access a range of trust-wide CPD initiatives. We have partnered with Bespoke & Contextual Consulting to provide some of the profession specific CPD, alongside additional CPD sessions we commission as part of CNWL CPD programme for Psychological Professions.

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