Principal clinical/lead psychologist Brent LD Service

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NHS AfC: Band 8b Main area Principal clinical/lead psychologist Brent LD Service Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

22.5 hours per week Job ref 333-J-BR-0713-A

Site Appletree, Kingswood Center Town Brent Salary £67,950 - £78,028 per annum pro rata inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 19/03/:59

Job overview This post aims to provide clinical expertise and lead a high-quality clinical psychology service aimed at improving the quality of life for adults with a learning disability in Brent.

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 in our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job The psychological provision in the Brent Community Learning Disability Team includes assessment of learning disability, direct and indirect therapeutic work with individuals and systems, behaviour support, loss and bereavement counselling, and assessment of autism. Supervision and consultation with non-specialist staff and families are an important part of the service.

The post holder will provide supervision and clinical leadership to psychological professionals and the multi-disciplinary team alongside their caseload. They will facilitate the development of pre-qualified staff (Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists) and contribute to Continuing Professional Development across the service.

The post holder may be required from time to time to deputise for the service manager in their absence.

Working for our organisation We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care in a community setting or in the patient's own home.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.

With every new employee, we are hoping to find our future leaders and will support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

You will work from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm (with flexibility), providing a service for adult people experiencing learning disabilities in the Brent area.

The post will be based at Appletree, Kingswood Centre.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To work as a senior clinician providing an advanced, highly specialist clinical psychology service within the Brent Community LD Team.
2. To provide specialist psychological assessments of referred clients, using interviews, formal psychometrics and other assessment methods as appropriate.
3. To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients and to provide psychological treatment, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate for individuals, families and services referred to the team.
4. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
5. To provide specialist consultation and guidance to colleagues, other professionals, carers and families on the use of psychological interventions and especially positive behaviour support plans.
6. To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
7. To provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological and neuropsychological care by all staff within the service.
8. To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
9. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.

Person specification TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctoral (or equivalent) level training in Clinical/ Counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Pre or post-qualification training in a relevant area, such as systemic psychotherapy or Positive Behaviour Support.

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of psychometric assessment/ assessment of learning disability.
• Experience of Positive Behavior Support and functional assessment. Experience of working with ASD.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Demonstrate further specialist training/experience across a range of abilities, including service users presenting with mental health problems, autistic spectrum disorders, and other challenging behaviors.
• Understanding and experience of adapting communication and therapeutic approaches to work with people with learning disabilities.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of clinical/ counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of work as a psychologist in community settings.
• Experience of working with interpreters.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Experience and knowledge of behavioural assessment and intervention methods in people with challenging behaviour.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc). High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialized psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

OTHER

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Car driver and access to use of a car.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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