Principal Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist

at  West London NHS Trust

We are seeking a passionate Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist to join the Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (FCAMHS) at West London Forensic Service (WLFS). This is part-time post for 3 days per week (0.6wte) at Band 8B which is fixed-term for 1 year (providing cover for maternity leave).
FCAHMS provides a specialist service for children and young people who present with a high risk of harm towards others and/or who are in contact with the youth justice system in eight boroughs across North West and Central London. FCAMHS will provide expert advice and consultation, specialist assessments and interventions, and will offer support as children and young people make transitions into and out of secure services. The service is a tertiary referral service for CAMHS teams, CAMHS/Youth Offending Team link workers and neurodisability services for young people and other agencies.
The post-holder will work as a member of the FCAMHS clinical team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to children and young people, their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations. In addition, the post holder will support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training.
The post holder will utilise research skills for research, audit, service development and clinical governance skills within the service.
The post holder will provide line management to qualified, trainee and assistant psychologists as delegated by the lead psychologist.
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK. It provides a broad range of forensic mental health care in adult male and female services, across high, medium and low security settings, as well as in a community and court diversion setting. West London Forensic Service has been rated as outstanding by the CQC.
The psychological therapies department, which comprises a team of over 30 psychologists and psychological therapists, is well-established and supportive with high standards of clinical supervision and excellent opportunities for continuing professional development.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
The post-holder will be responsible, as a member of the psychology service, to provide a full and comprehensive specialist clinical psychology service to young people, their families or carers where there are highly complex presentations. Responsibilities will include provision of specialist psychological assessments and therapies, the provision of specialist risk assessment and advice on risk management, and the provision of psychological advice and consultation to others involved in service user care.
The post holder will work as a clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, which will include responsibility for ensuring the systematic provision and governance of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to service users. The post holder will plan, organise and contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit, and to advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
As an autonomous practitioner he/she will be responsible for their own work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies. The post holder will supervise and support the psychological assessment and practice provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists and other clinical members of the service who provide psychologically based care and treatment and to provide clinical and professional leadership to appropriate clinical staff

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