Consultant Clinical/ Counselling PsychologistinUxbridgeinUxbridgePUBLISHED MON 10 MAR 2025

Job Overview

A new and exciting vacancy has arisen for a Specialist Consultant Psychologist in the Hillingdon Sector of Central and North-West London Addictions Directorate. We are looking for a dynamic candidate who would like to help take this service forward through innovation and service design as part of the New Drug Strategy. You will work with the Senior Management Team to develop the service in line with our new contract agreements and local initiatives.

The Service provides specialist therapeutic input to adults whose use of alcohol, other drugs and addictions cause problems.

The applicant will have a high level of expertise in working with the client group – or will be interested in developing this as a new specialism - and he or she will join an experienced and growing team of Chartered Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Family and other therapists in the Addictions Directorate.

We would encourage applicants from outside the Addictions field and those at 8b level wishing to advance and develop their careers.

This is a one-year contract with potential to extend.

For further information, and to arrange an informal visit, contact Andre Geel, Lead Psychologist for Addictions, e-mail

Closing date: March 2025

Main duties of the job

Lead the psychology team locally.

Play a key role in developing the New Drug Strategy.

Membership of Senior Management Team, Trust Consultants Group.

Lead locally on Psychosocial Interventions, Trauma Informed Care, Psychological Safety.

Liaise and consult with local stakeholders.

Represent the profession of Psychology outside of service and CNWL.

Working for our organisation

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 7,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. 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.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The Psychology Service aims to enhance treatment outcomes through evidence-based interventions direct to clients as well as through consultation, training and research. The priority will be to provide comprehensive psychology services to clients with addictions in the wider service as well as those attending the group Recovery Day Programme (RDP).

See Attached Job Description For Full Details.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• HCPC registration to practice in the UK
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
• Equivalent experience (within a related specialty) may be agreed with the Lead Psychologist, and with the postholder undertaking additional training in substance misuse
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co- ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of professional management qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
• Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty
• Experience of representing the profession in local policy forums
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
  
  

Knowledge And Skills

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat group (e.g. personality disorder dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and severely challenging behaviours etc.)<