Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-AMHS-305
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lakeside MHU (West Mid)
- Town
- Isleworth
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Band 8c
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
This is the Consultant Psychologist/Psychological Practitioner post for Lakeside Mental Health Unit, the role involves both leadership of an adult inpatient psychology team and direct clinical work on acute ward. Lakeside Mental Health Unity is based in the borough of Hounslow, comprising of five acute mental health wards and a health based place of safety. Service users present in acute mental health crisis with a diverse range of psychological needs and risk concerns and are in need of intensive treatment with most service users detained under the Mental Health Act.
We are seeking a passionate and committed candidate to work in partnership with the Associate Director for psychological professions based in Acute Mental Health Services to provide clinical and strategic leadership to the inpatient psychology team. The team a clinical psychologist, counselling psychologist, clinical associate in psychology and an assistant psychologist. The team also provides placements to trainee clinical psychologists from the North Thames courses and students from the MSc in Early Intervention in Psychosis.
This role will include the delivery of a comprehensive psychology service to one of the acute wards delivering evidence based psychological interventions and proactively working with the MDT on a psychologically informed approach to care and management of risk concerns.
Main duties of the job
Lead on the provision and delivery of a comprehensive psychology service including direct and indirect psychological interventions, facilitate team formulation for MDT colleagues, facilitate reflective practice, consultation and provision of post incident support.
· To supervise and line manage other qualified staff and oversee supervision and line management in the team. Where appropriate to provide clinical supervision to psychology colleagues in other Trust services and/or MDT colleagues.
· Work in partnership with the Associate Director for Psychological Professions based in Acute Mental Health Services and senior management colleagues working on the unit.
Be responsible for the good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of the inpatient psychology team
Working for our organisation
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 over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology and/or accredited psychological practitioner with at extensive experience working as a band 8b
- Formal training in the supervision of psychological staff.
- Evidence of continuing professional development in accordance with professional registration requirements.
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience, including a significant period of post-qualification experience within acute services.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of professional management of qualified psychologists/psychological practitioners and pre- qualified psychology staff.
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
- Experience in the assessment and treatment of service users with interpersonal and relational difficulties
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group and mental health system.
- Knowledge of and a good understanding of the framework of government and national policy.
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and highly sensitive clinical information or highly contentious information to service users, their families, carers, (where there are significant barriers to acceptance in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere), and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS. This includes communication to the Courts and Mental Health Tribunals as an expert witness.
Desirable criteria
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for service users that have specific needs and are groups for which there are barriers to engagement.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gemma Allison
- Job title
- Senior Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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