Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Harrow Psychology is expanding and excited to offer several specialist adult mental health posts in Trauma Informed Approaches (TIA) and Complex Emotional Needs (CEN). Posts come with opportunities for funded training in EMDR, DBT and Open Dialogue, and specialist supervision in DBT, CAT, NET, systemic and psychodynamic approaches.
The Psychology Pathway is integrated across our Community Mental Health Hub, inpatient wards and Home Treatment Team to provide continuity of care. Psychological services are provided for a broad range of presentations; including psychosis, CEN and PTSD.
Come join our innovative psychology team, pioneering new and exciting projects influencing national policy. Our work in TIA has been published (Nikopaschos et al., 2023) and recommended in latest NHSE Guidance for Inpatient Mental Health. Our innovative CEN Pathway includes the provision of a full DBT program. Newer projects include Community Psychology approaches, improving outcomes for young black men (see Finding Rhythms) and psychologically-informed Young Adult Pathways.
If you are passionate about delivering innovative psychologically-informed care, come join our established team of psychologists with a diverse range of expertise. Psychology is well integrated and highly valued with excellent MDT relationships. You must have a strong commitment to teamwork, an ability to facilitate ongoing development of the psychology service and to work sensitively within a culturally diverse environment.
The Harrow Community Mental Health Hub, adult inpatient wards and Home Treatment Team work closely together as an integrated system, which provides holistic intervention to adults with mental health difficulties in Harrow. The post holders will join an expanding therapies team, committed to providing highly specialist and trauma-informed psychological care, integrated across the system. They will work closely with the full range of MDT professionals, including psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy and peer support. They will play a key role in the assessment of service users presenting to both acute and community services, the development of creative and multi-disciplinary care plans, and the provision of psychological intervention that follows service users across the system. Opportunities are available for specialism within the Complex Emotional Needs pathway and Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) project.
The post-holder will be expected to work as a senior member of the multi-professional team, including the provision of consultation, co-working, teaching, training, supervision and research as well as developing specific training to enhance the systematic provision of psychological interventions offered to service users by all members of the team within a ‘stepped-care’ framework. They will make a leading contribution to the learning culture of the team and wider service, and play an integral role in the further development and embedding of TIA.
There’s a place for you at CNWL
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. 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 BE NOTED:

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.
The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information, clinical governance including research governance

IT RESPONSIBILITIES (OTHER THAN THOSE USED FOR RESEARCH):

The post holder will input and maintain appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data and provide this to the Senior Managers when necessary.
The postholder will engage in relevant computer and IT training as required.