Clinical Psychologist inUxbridge inUxbridge PUBLISHED
WED 8 JAN 2025
Opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of vulnerable children and young adults, helping them transition from care to independence.
Collaborative work with a diverse team of professionals across various agencies, enhancing skill development and interdisciplinary understanding.
Access to a well-established MAPS service that is integrated into the local community, providing a supportive framework for delivering psychological care.
Involvement in innovative projects like 'Staying Close', which aim to provide comprehensive support and stable accommodations for care-experienced individuals.
The role allows for the application of advanced psychological assessments and interventions, using evidence-based practices to formulate tailored treatment plans.
Flexibility in work hours enables a better work-life balance while meeting the needs of the service.
The Clinical Psychologist role with the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust in Uxbridge involves joining the Multi Agency Psychological Support (MAPS) Service, which supports vulnerable children, young people, and young adults who are in or have recently left care. The position entails providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions tailored to the needs of these individuals, including those who have been adopted or are under special guardianship. The psychologist will collaborate with various organisations to deliver comprehensive support, particularly for the 'Staying Close' project, which aims to help care-experienced young people transition into independent living.
Key responsibilities include conducting complex assessments, formulating treatment plans, offering guidance to team members and other professionals, managing risks, and communicating effectively with clients and their support networks. Candidates are required to hold a postgraduate doctoral training in clinical psychology or a qualification in systemic and family therapy and must be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council or relevant professional bodies. The role also requires flexibility to work across various settings, ensuring a cohesive approach to psychological care and support for those in the service.
Key responsibilities include conducting complex assessments, formulating treatment plans, offering guidance to team members and other professionals, managing risks, and communicating effectively with clients and their support networks. Candidates are required to hold a postgraduate doctoral training in clinical psychology or a qualification in systemic and family therapy and must be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council or relevant professional bodies. The role also requires flexibility to work across various settings, ensuring a cohesive approach to psychological care and support for those in the service.
Job Overview
To join the Multi Agency Psychological Support (MAPS) Service - which is located in the local authority (London Borough of Hillingdon) and is part of an existing NHS service. The MAPS service comprises of a team of psychologists, providing a service for children, young people and young adults who are in/leaving care and/or adopted or have special guardianship orders, or who are children in need of protection, children in need, or vulnerable children referred to the stronger families service. We work closely with our Hillingdon CAMHS service.
An additional part of role will be to provide psychological support for the ‘Staying Close’ project. Staying Close aims to provide stable accommodation and comprehensive support to care-experienced young people, aged 18+, who are leaving residential or supported living placements. This will be delivered in partnership with a range of agencies and organisations, including health, education, and employment providers. The aim is to ensure that young people receive joined-up support that meets their needs and helps them to achieve their full potential as they step out of care and transition into adulthood.
To offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues from all disciplines including; social care colleagues; staying close team, and individuals external to CAMHS/ Social care working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological and/or systemic assessments and interventions whilst interpreting and integrating complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, foster carers and others involved in the client’s care, including frontline workers in health, education, social services and the voluntary sector.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of children and young people with mental health difficulties, including those children who are looked after and adopted, or are children in need, children in need of protection, young adults leaving care, or vulnerable children who are part of the stronger families teams. These plans will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological and systemic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Working for our organisation
The Multi Agency Psychological Support (MAPS) Service – Is a service which is located in the local authority (London Borough of Hillingdon) and is part of an existing NHS service. The MAPS service is a well-established team of psychologists, and provides a service for children, young people and young adults who are in/leaving care and/or adopted or have special guardianship orders, or who are children in need of protection, children in need, or children referred to stronger families service. We work closely with our Hillingdon CAMHS service based at Minet Clinic, Uxbridge.
Hillingdon CAMHS consists of five main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team; Neurodevelopmental Team; Enhanced Treatment Team; Learning Disabilities (LD-CAMHS), and; Multi-Agency Psychology Service (MAPS; for children looked after and children in need). The post holder may be required to travel to other parts of the catchment area including working within the community (e.g. schools) and / or wider network outside trust where necessary, The service operates Monday to Friday 09.00 to 17:00 with some flexibility to work extended hours to meet service need.
To find out more about working in CAMHS please CLICK HERE for one of our CAMHS video.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
To join the Multi Agency Psychological Support (MAPS) Service - which is located in the local authority (London Borough of Hillingdon) and is part of an existing NHS service. The MAPS service comprises of a team of psychologists, providing a service for children, young people and young adults who are in/leaving care and/or adopted or have special guardianship orders, or who are children in need of protection, children in need, or vulnerable children referred to the stronger families service. We work closely with our Hillingdon CAMHS service.
An additional part of role will be to provide psychological support for the ‘Staying Close’ project. Staying Close aims to provide stable accommodation and comprehensive support to care-experienced young people, aged 18+, who are leaving residential or supported living placements. This will be delivered in partnership with a range of agencies and organisations, including health, education, and employment providers. The aim is to ensure that young people receive joined-up support that meets their needs and helps them to achieve their full potential as they step out of care and transition into adulthood.
To offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues from all disciplines including; social care colleagues; staying close team, and individuals external to CAMHS/ Social care working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological and/or systemic assessments and interventions whilst interpreting and integrating complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, foster carers and others involved in the client’s care, including frontline workers in health, education, social services and the voluntary sector.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of children and young people with mental health difficulties, including those children who are looked after and adopted, or are children in need, children in need of protection, young adults leaving care, or vulnerable children who are part of the stronger families teams. These plans will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological and systemic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Working for our organisation
The Multi Agency Psychological Support (MAPS) Service – Is a service which is located in the local authority (London Borough of Hillingdon) and is part of an existing NHS service. The MAPS service is a well-established team of psychologists, and provides a service for children, young people and young adults who are in/leaving care and/or adopted or have special guardianship orders, or who are children in need of protection, children in need, or children referred to stronger families service. We work closely with our Hillingdon CAMHS service based at Minet Clinic, Uxbridge.
Hillingdon CAMHS consists of five main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team; Neurodevelopmental Team; Enhanced Treatment Team; Learning Disabilities (LD-CAMHS), and; Multi-Agency Psychology Service (MAPS; for children looked after and children in need). The post holder may be required to travel to other parts of the catchment area including working within the community (e.g. schools) and / or wider network outside trust where necessary, The service operates Monday to Friday 09.00 to 17:00 with some flexibility to work extended hours to meet service need.
To find out more about working in CAMHS please CLICK HERE for one of our CAMHS video.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To collaborate with colleagues in devising appropriate psychological and systemic interventions for children, young adults, families and groups.
- To provide specialist psychological/ systemic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals who comprise of the team around the child/young adults contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically and or systemic based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate doctoral 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 BPS. Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council Or Have completed a training on a postgraduate course which must be accredited by the Association for Family Therapy and be registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) as a Systemic and Family Psychotherapist Post -qualification training in Supervision of Clinical Psychologists/ systemic therapists
- Post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or relevant area of practi
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To work as a Clinical Psychologist in the UK, several key skills and qualifications are essential. Here’s an overview:
Educational Requirements
1. Undergraduate Degree: A degree in psychology that is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) is required. This usually includes a Bachelor’s degree with the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) from the BPS.
2. Postgraduate Training: You must complete a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) or an equivalent qualification that is also accredited by the BPS and approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Key Skills
1. Clinical Assessment: Ability to conduct assessments using a range of psychological tests, interviews, and observational methods.
2. Therapeutic Skills: Proficiency in various therapeutic modalities (e.g., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, humanistic approaches) to effectively work with clients.
3. Research Skills: Capability to understand and conduct research, as clinical psychologists often engage in evidence-based practice and may be involved in research projects.
4. Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey complex psychological concepts clearly and build rapport with clients.
5. Empathy and Emotional Intelligence: Ability to understand and relate to clients’ feelings and experiences, providing compassionate and supportive care.
6. Problem-Solving Skills: Competence in identifying problems, formulating hypotheses, and developing treatment plans tailored to individual clients.
7. Teamwork and Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with other healthcare professionals.
8. Cultural Competence: Understanding and respecting diverse backgrounds, ensuring that treatment approaches are sensitive to cultural differences.
9. Professionalism and Ethical Practice: Adherence to ethical guidelines and professional standards as set by the HCPC and BPS.
10. Continuous Learning: Commitment to ongoing professional development and staying current with new research, therapies, and best practices in the field.
Additional Experiences
- Work Experience: Gaining relevant experience in clinical or healthcare settings prior to training, such as assistant psychologist roles, mental health support worker positions, or voluntary work in related fields.
- Supervision Experience: Engaging in regular supervision during training and practice to reflect on work and improve skills.
Registration
- HCPC Registration: After completing the necessary training and qualifications, you must register with the Health and Care Professions Council to practice as a Clinical Psychologist in the UK.
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