Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist - #144658

Are you an experienced psychologist or psychological practitioner with an enthusiasm for working in a crisis service? Do you have the skills and experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team and providing a psychological perspective to the care provided? Do you have experience in supervising and managing members of the psychology team?

This post offers the opportunity to be part of our crisis and home treatment services in West London. The post holder would be joining the psychology team comprising of a Principal Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Associate in Psychology based in the Hounslow team.

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. Reflective practice, team formulation, consultation, and post incident support are an integral part of the psychology service.

The post holder will be the supervisor and line manager for the Clinical Associate in Psychology. There will also be opportunities to provide placements for trainee clinical psychologists from the North Thames courses and students from the MSc in Early Intervention in Psychosis at the IOPPN

Hounslow Crisis Assessment and Home Treatment Team provides a service for adult service users experiencing mental health crisis requiring intensive home based support and treatment. The service aims to prevent service users requiring a hospital admission. Therefore, part of the role will entail providing assessments and brief interventions in service user’s homes.

MAIN DUTIES

• Providing a full and comprehensive psychology service providing direct care to service users and their families offering assessment, formulation, risk assessment and brief evidence based interventions when indicated.
• Offer indirect work ensuring that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to a psychological framework for understanding the service user’s needs. This will be provided by giving psychological advice, consultation, contributing in clinical meetings and team formulation.
• Developing the MDT’s knowledge and skills to use a psychological approach to a service user’s care through teaching, training and where needed supervision.
  
  

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gemma Allison Job title: Head of Psychological Services - Acute Mental Email address: [email protected]