Crynodeb o'r swydd
- Prif leoliad
- Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Gradd
- NHS AFC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Cyfnod Penodol: 6 mis (6 months fixed term, with possibility of extension, ending by 31/3/26)
- Oriau
- Rhan-amser - 18.75 awr yr wythnos
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 333-D-AD-0523-A
- Cyflogwr
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- RISE (Recovery Intervention Service Ealing)
- Tref
- London
- Cyflog
- £59,490 - £66,239 per annum pro rata inc HCAS
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist
NHS AFC: Band 8a
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist –Part time (2.5 days) 6 month Fixed term post with possibility of extension.
Are you interested in playing a key role in the development of addiction services as part of the national over-hall of drug and alcohol services?
We are keen to recruit a dynamic, compassionate and experienced clinical or counselling psychologist to join RISE in Ealing. RISE is an established partnership substance misuse service between CGL (Change Grow Live), CNWL and BOB. RISE specialises in supporting recovery for drug and alcohol difficulties and caters to a wide range of service users including those with co-occurring mental health, physical heath difficulties, criminal justice involvement and service users who are sleeping rough, across clinical bases in West Ealing and Southall.
We welcome applications from psychologists outside of the addictions field who are looking to develop a new specialism and welcome applications from Band 7 psychologists ready for career progression.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
This post will play a key role in the development of the local addiction services as well as our mental health pathways and will have involvement in our high quality stepped care provision across the addictions directorate. We are seeking someone who will work well with a range of professions, both within the established MDT and also with the wider staffing group, respecting and integrating a range of opinions and approaches to provide the best outcome for our service users and promote trauma informed care across the service. At RISE you will be fully supported by a Consultant Psychologist and work alongside assistant psychologists and MDT colleagues. We have a larger team of psychology and therapy staff providing a wide range of therapies (CBT, MBT, EMDR, Schema & Psychodynamic therapy) across CNWL Addictions Directorate. We are seeking someone who will offer clinical supervision and reflective practice and consultation as well as providing direct clinical psychological interventions to service users.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
CNWL’s Addictions Directorate is led by a highly motivated team with vast experience in healthcare within community environments. We employ a range of psychologists and psychological therapists with clinical, counselling and generic trainings. Psychologists also work within the mental health services in a variety of sites and locations. Our psychologists also lead specific specialist services such as the National Problem Gambling Clinic, the Gaming Clinic and the Club Drug Clinic.
Joining a large, forward-thinking Trust will bring successful candidates excellent development opportunities, an exciting career structure, and job satisfaction. Psychologists from across the Addictions Directorate and the wider Trust come together for professional and clinical development and supervision and continuing professional development is integral to our trauma informed and stepped care model.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
This is a post which requires leadership skills and a forward-thinking attitude to help drive the service forward. An enthusiasm to explore new and innovative ways of providing evidence-based treatments is most welcome.
Please see job description and person specialisation.
Manyleb y person
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Doctoral level training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- • HCPC registration
Meini prawf dymunol
- Post-graduate training in an evidence-based therapeutic technique of use to the service
- Post-graduate training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient 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.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology and psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of the treatment of substance or behavioural addictions populations
- Experience of attending management meetings and of being the senior psychologist in service
Knowledge and Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- 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.
- Doctoral-level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Other
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-medial 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
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
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Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Dr Alina Galis
- Teitl y swydd
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 020 8567 4772
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