Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Health Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (It may be possible to extend contract beyond 12 months)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 333-J-KC-0860-A
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kensington & Chelsea Mental Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 pa (pro rata P/T) inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist interested in Staff Psychology Support? We are looking for someone to work in our ground-breaking Staff Psychology Service that supports NHS staff with the emotional impact of work by working systemically across all levels of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. The service within a supportive Clinical Health Psychology service.
As part of our commitment to address inequalities in healthcare, we are particularly keen to hear from applicants with lived experience relevant to the diverse communities we work with, and from those with particular skills in understanding and promoting anti-discrimination associated with protected characteristics. The Trust has the following active Staff Networks: BAME Staff Network, Disabled Employees Network (DEN+), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Staff Network (LGBT+), Carers at Work Network, Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues Stigma Transformation (LEMHIST) Network and Women’s Network. The post-holder will be supported to access and contribute to the work of these networks as a member or ally.
If the date of the interview falls on a religious holiday then please make us aware so we can reschedule your interview.
Main duties of the job
Responsibility for delivery and evaluation of a high quality, evidence based and effective staff psychological support service to support Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust staff across both the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex Hospital sites. The post-holder will be working within a team of psychologist colleagues, scoping, delivering interventions, and utilising research and audit skills. The service offers limited individual assessment and brief interventions but typically concentrates on work at the team, manager and organisational level. This work includes consultation, training, psychological debriefs and reflective practice sessions.
Working for our organisation
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage & support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients & service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy & policy, & many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. With us, you will get -
A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.
An opportunity to work for one of the top 10 NHS employers
Flexible working
Variety of work
Access to a variety of CPD opportunities.
As a Trust we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation wide. Psychological professions staff are able to access a range of trust-wide CPD initiatives. We have partnered with Bespoke & Contextual Consulting to provide some of the profession specific CPD, alongside additional CPD sessions we commission as part of CNWL CPD programme for Psychological Professions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for someone to work in our ground-breaking Staff Psychology Service that supports NHS staff with the emotional impact of work by working systemically across all levels of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. The service within a supportive Clinical Health Psychology service.
Please see the job description for full details on the role and responsibilities of the job.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence
- Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate qualification in Occupational Psychology.
- Further Systemic training or training linked to understanding system/organization aspects of workplace wellbeing. (A)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
- Experience of working in a clinical health psychology setting.
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or providing clinical supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience in group work
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- 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 non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of delivering psychological interventions to specific groups and communities (e.g. individuals who identify as BAME, NHS staff)
- Knowledge of workplace wellbeing
- 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.
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
- Owen Thompson
- Job title
- Co-Lead Staff Psychology Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Owen Thompson
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