Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Psychologist
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Job Overview
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of children, young people, and their carers across all sectors of social care; providing psychological assessment and interventions under the supervision and direction of a qualified clinical psychologist, working according to the plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist and within the overall framework of the Service’s policies and procedures.
To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work.
Please note that this post will close once we have received sufficient numbers of applications, please apply at your earliest convenience.
The post holder will work on the Goal Based Intervention Project, ADHD pathway, local SEND team, and ongoing QIs.
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe, and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic, or in the patient’s own home. Wherever you wish to work and whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
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Main Duties of the Job
- To undertake direct and indirect structured observations of clients.
- To assist the qualified clinical psychologists by developing resources for use with children, young people, and their families.
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the supervision of qualified clinical psychologists.
- To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups where required.
- To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
- To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
Working for Our Organisation
Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS is a well-established multi-disciplinary team.
We aim to provide an accessible, flexible, and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area. We use a diverse range of therapeutic interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, systemic and family therapies, psychotherapy, psychoeducation, therapy groups, and multi-family work. Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS consists of five main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team; Neurodevelopmental Team; Enhanced Treatment Team; Duty team; and under 5s Team.
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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 patients and colleagues.
Our clinic is opened from 8am to 5pm. Although the standard working hours are 9am to 5pm, we will always consider applications for flexible working and compressed hours. There will be opportunities for home working, but clinicians will be expected to be in the clinic at least 60% of their working hours.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Beside clinical work, the post holder will collaborate in:
Research and Service Evaluation
- To assist in the design and implementation of audit and service evaluation projects.
- To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.
- To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist qualified clinical psychologists in evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
Administration, Clinical Recording
- To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s professional and team/operational manager(s).
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, report writing, and consultation records in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
- To prepare test materials and visual aids as required.
- To undertake specific administrative duties as required.
- To perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade, which may be required from time to time by their Psychology Manager.
- To contribute to gathering information in order to develop comprehensive formulations with the Clinical Psychologist.
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Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in Psychology.
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, and/or research design and analysis
Experience
Essential criteria
- Work with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities.
- Experience of working within a CAMHS Service
Desirable criteria
- Experience of work in direct care provision.
- Experience of working with children who are looked after or on the edge of care with mental health problems and/or other disabilities.
- Experience of working within a Social Services setting.
Knowledge And Skills
Essential criteria
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers, and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of running groups.
- Experience of collecting and analysing routine outcome measures.
- High standard of report writing.
- Experience using microcomputers for databases or data-analysis.
Personal
Essential criteria
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- An ability to interact with people with mental health problems and learning disabilities.
- Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
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