Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | West London NHS Trust

The post-holder will contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. They will ensure that all members of multidisciplinary teams have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding clients of the service through the provision of advice, consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.

The post holder will undertake neuropsychology assessment of people who may have dementia as part of the diagnostic process if needed. They will contribute to research, audit and clinical governance tasks within the hospital.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the CIDS teams including suitability for admission, diagnosis, general and forensic risk, progress and route for discharge.
• Developing assessment procedures that identify unmet need and barriers to active engagement with agreed care pathways.
• Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
• Implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

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 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.

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.