Assistant Psychologist

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

To support and enhance the psychological care of children across the Wellbeing Service in HMYOI Feltham. This includes providing mental health assessment and interventions under the supervision of a qualified psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist, and within the overall SECURE STAIRS framework.
To participate in clinical governance and utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the multi-disciplinary team
To undertake clinically-related administration and project work
To provide assessments and mental health interventions to clients under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist
To work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the clinic’s policies and procedures
To liaise with other professional services (resettlement workers, youth offending services, CAMHS, Social Care) sharing information where appropriate
To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you’re at, there’s always a place for you at CNWL.
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.
To support psychologists in the assessment of children within HMYOI Feltham. This may include using self-report measures, risk assessment, rating scales, direct and indirect observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. Assessments will involve making judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options, as well as requiring prolonged concentration
To work in a highly emotive atmosphere with clients with offending histories and / or mental health problems on a regular basis, and be able to communicate sensitive and complex information, whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times
To attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings
To support psychologists in preparing for and conducting psychological interventions, both group and individual. To co-facilitate groups with both psychology and non-psychology colleagues when appropriate
To work closely with senior colleagues to ensure information in relation to risk is collected and communicated sensitively and comprehensively
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording
To attend and contribute to other prison meetings, and to present the view of Mental Health Team for relevant clinical issues. To ensure any actions taken from these meetings are met or that the appropriate individual to carry out the action is informed
To ensure that efficient pathways of care are being created for the clients, including collecting collateral information for new clients and making appropriate referrals into the community when they are approaching discharge
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific patient group and mental health.
To ensure that all aspects of professional activity (e.g. communication with patients, relatives, colleagues as well as in the assessment, development/delivery of interventions) issues of diversity such as race, culture, identity, gender and sexuality are sensitively considered and incorporated to reflect individual differences appropriately

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