Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 18.75 hours per week (Part time)
- Job ref
- 222-LS-CAMHS-625
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ealing MHST CAMHs
- Town
- Ealing
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 pa including 15% HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 to 8a Clinical Psychologist / Team Lead Preceptorship
Band 7
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 to 8a Clinical Psychologist (0.5WTE) to lead on the development and management of the high intensity pathway of Ealing Mental Health Support Team (MHST+). This role sits within our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) offer, providing early intervention mental health input directly into mainstream Primary and Secondary schools.
The MHST+ team was established in 2021, to provide evidence-based early intervention support in mainstream schools, for children diagnosed with a Learning Disability (LD) or Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC), or awaiting assessment for an ASC diagnosis. Recently, the MHST+ pathway has expanded to develop a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) pathway, and is constantly developing and evolving in response to feedback and evidence. The team has been praised for its innovative ASCLD offer, and are often invited and contacted to present or share learning for MHSTs nationally. We strive to continue to develop an offer that is meaningful for the people we work with.
This is a preceptorship programme designed to support people working at a Band 7 level, to move into a Band 8a position upon completion of 8a preceptorship criteria. Please note that this post is also being advertised as a Band 8a, however, we will consider a Band 7 with some leadership experience, on a preceptorship route working towards the essential criteria needed as an 8a.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide senior leadership for the clinical functioning of the MHST+ team. You will contribute to providing early intervention mental health support for children/young people with Autism and/or LD, or who are on the waiting list for an Autism diagnosis, in mainstream schools, as well as the CBT pathway within the team. This may expand to include other enhanced offers.
You will contribute to identifying gaps and generating potential ideas for developing the service. You will develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders to enable joint working to best meet the needs of children and young people, including those with ASC/LD and the systems around them.
You will contribute to developing and implementing a range of interventions and projects within schools and may be invited to contribute to developing borough-wide strategies for young people, including those specifically with ASC/LD.
You will hold a small caseload, offering high quality evidence-based interventions to support children and young people, as well as provide clinical supervision for trainee and other psychological therapies staff within the team.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental health concerns.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This job is ideal for someone who is looking for a part time work arrangement, either as a standalone or alongside another role.
Please see our Candidate information pack for a comprehensive job description and person specification for this rol
The link below will also provide useful information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or equivalent if trained overseas
- Eligible to work as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical) as approved by the Health Care Professions Council.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post-doctoral/graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice with children and young people.
- linical training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach i.e. CBT, Parenting Skills or other.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families across a range of care settings, (e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, in patient settings).
- 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.
- Experience of working with children, adolescents and their families
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with other agencies.
- Experience of the application of clinical / counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of assessment and intervention around Neurodiversity
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision/reflective practice
- Experience of working with evidence -based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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 non -professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and skills in specialist neuropsychological assessment and treatment with children and young people with neuro -developmental difficulties
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. children with challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media 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.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
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
- Dr Roya Afsharzadegan
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
If you have any enquiries about the post, please do get in touch with Dr Roya Afsharzadegan, Principal Clinical Psychologist & MHST Manager via [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
West London NHS Trust
Trust HQ, 1 Armstrong Way
Southall, UB2 4SD
- Telephone
- 07732824250
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