Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

at  West London NHS Trust

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Practitioner
(Band 8a 0.6 22.5 hours/week)
Acute Mental Health Services, based at Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health Unit
We are looking for a qualified and experienced psychological professional, with enthusiasm for working in acute mental health services to join the team based at Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health Unit. The post offers the opportunity to work on a male acute ward that is part of Culture of Care, a national quality improvement programme that aims to support wards to provide safe, trauma informed, therapeutic and equity focused.
The post-holder will work collaboratively and proactively with the multi-disciplinary team to manage risk robustly and to provide a psychological perspective to the care provided. Along with providing assessment, formulation and brief interventions to service users and their families. Ref lective practice, team formulation, consultation, and post incident support are an integral part of the psychology service. As a service we provide placements to the North London clinical psychology training courses the post-holder would supervise trainees on placement, as well as Masters level students and MDT colleagues where needed.

The post holder will be part of a welcoming psychology team, consisting of clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists, psychotherapists and trainee clinical psychologists.

• Providing a full and comprehensive psychology service to the acute ward providing assessments, formulation and brief interventions to service users and their families.
• Be an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the approach to care is formulation driven and trauma informed, to support safe discharge from the ward.
• Developing the multi-disciplinary team’s psychological understanding of the service user’s needs through teaching, training, team formulation, consultation and supervision.
• Facilitating reflective practice for one of the wards on the unit.
• Provide post incident support to the ward teams to support staff wellbeing and psychological safety.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding ’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required . Please view as attached .
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed

Please refer the Job description for details