Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Ealing Crisis Assessment and Home Treatment Team. The team works closely with inpatient and community services to support individuals experiencing a mental health crisis outside of hospital, offering care in people's homes and within the Crisis Recovery House run by our VCSE partners at Waythrough.

This newly developed post will work alongside an established Psychologist already embedded in the team. Ealing has recently launched a borough-wide commitment to becoming a trauma-informed service, supporting staff to deliver stabilising and psychologically informed interventions.

The post-holder will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, providing a psychological perspective on care, supporting risk management, and delivering assessment, formulation and brief interventions to service users and families. They will also help develop psychologically informed approaches across the MDT and contribute to reflective practice, team formulation and post-incident support.

The service is working towards accreditation with the Quality Network for Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams, and the post-holder will support meeting and maintaining psychological standards.

Regular supervision will be provided by a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist experienced in acute and crisis mental health, and the post-holder will be fully integrated into Ealing psychology services.

Main duties of the job

• Provide psychological therapies 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.
• Develop the MDT's knowledge and skills to deliver a range of psychological interventions to service users care through teaching, training and supervision.
• Work as an integrated clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, which will include responsibility for ensuring the systematic provision and governance around the delivery of psychological interventions.
• Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development as appropriate.
• Participate as a senior clinician and be an integral part of the leadership team involved in the development and delivery of a high-quality service.
• Function as an autonomous practitioner and be responsible for their own work; working within their professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

Person Specification

• Qualifications:

+ Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology or its equivalent. + Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.

• Experience:

+ Post-qualification experience of working in mental health settings. + Experience of working with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course. + Experience of providing clinical supervision to assistant/trainee or qualified psychologists.

• Knowledge/Skills:

+ Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management. + Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues. + Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis.

Benefits

• Competitive salary: £53,751 to £60,651 per annum.
• Regular supervision with a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and supportive team environment.

Other Requirements

• Ability to work independently and under pressure.
• Adaptable and able to work flexibly to respond to the service needs/priorities.
• Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.