Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The aim of this role is to provide a psychology service to adults with a Learning Disability as a part of the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team. This will include providing psychological assessment, formulation and interventions directly and indirectly to service users, their families and wider systems. The post holder will also provide teaching, training, consultation and supervision to the wider team to facilitate a psychologically informed approach to service users and contribute to the ongoing training and development strategy. The post holder will supervise trainee and assistant psychologists and may supervise the psychological aspects of MDT work. The post holder will engage in audit, policy and service development and research.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for people referred to the service, including assessing people’s eligibility for a learning disability service. The psychologist will be expected to deliver services based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, the MDT and others involved in the client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological, mental health or behavioural problems, including autistic spectrum disorders, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To carry out Functional Assessments and formulate Positive Behaviour Support plans in addition to carrying out systemic work with care homes and families.
The post-holder will work closely with local multi-disciplinary teams, other key stakeholders within the Boroughs, the Division and the Trust, and high-level external stakeholders.
The post holder will be passionate about driving the local and trust quality agenda and supporting and enhancing the regional and diverse workforce with a financial and performance framework. This role will foster strong partnerships with patients and their families to define a personalised approach to patient care support.
The post holder requires high-level analytical and judgement skills. They will receive highly complex and sensitive information about patient care.
The successful applicant will 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, patients, and service users when working in our healthcare settings.

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