Joint Lead Psychologist for Staff Psychology service

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The Staff Psychology Service (SPS) supports Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust to be trauma-informed, compassionate and psychologically-safe through supporting and promoting staff mental wellbeing across all levels of the organisation. We provide evidence-based psychological consultation, assessment, therapy and sign-posting to staff on a one-to-one basis. Our work with teams and staff groups includes facilitating Post Event Team Reflections (aka cold debriefs) following an extremely stressful incident; PITSTOP Hot Debrief Training; psychoeducational workshops and reflective spaces. Our work at the organisational level involves partnership working with key stakeholders; organisational consultation and development; support for managers and support for wider wellbeing initiatives (such as Schwartz Rounds) across the trust.
The SPS sits within the wider Clinical Health Psychology service that consists of Bariatric Surgery, Burns, HIV & Sexual Health, Intensive Care Unit, Irritable Bowel Disease and Pain within Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex Hospital.
As part of our commitment to address inequalities in healthcare, we are particularly keen to hear from applicants with lived experience relevant to the diverse communities we work with, and from those with particular skills in understanding and promoting anti-discrimination associated with protected characteristics.
The post-holder will work closely with the existing 8b Lead Psychologist to ensure the development, delivery and evaluation of a high quality, evidence based and effective staff psychological support service to support Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust staff across both the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, West Middlesex Hospital and other community sites. They will work in conjunction with senior staff from the Clinical Health Psychology service and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in order to determine strategy and agree an overall direction for service development. They will prioritise and deliver on agreed milestones within the Health and Wellbeing strategy and ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychological support service to the staff of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The SPS offers flexibility by delivering face to face and virtual options for service users. The postholder will be expected to work in person across both sites as required. A hospital shuttle bus connects these two sites. Hybrid working will be according to the service’s needs.
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.
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.
The post-holder will work closely with the existing 8b lead Psychologist to ensure the development, delivery and evaluation of a high quality, evidence based and effective staff psychological support service to support Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust staff across both the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex Hospital sites. They will work in conjunction with senior staff from Chelsea & Westminster Clinical Health Psychology team and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in order to determine strategy and agree an overall direction for service development. They will be expected to prioritise and deliver on agreed milestones within the Health and Wellbeing strategy and ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychological support service to the staff of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This will include:
scoping and mapping the needs of staff
providing interventions
supervising and supporting the psychological interventions provided by other psychologists and members of the team
working autonomously within professional guidelines
exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service
utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development, and research
proposing and implementing policy changes within the area served by the team/service

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