Job summary
This is a really exciting job working with a skilled team and a psychologically-minded client group.
The Club Drug Clinic is a dynamic, cutting edge NHS service for people who are experiencing problems with their use of club drugs and novel psychoactive substances, including 'chemsex'. The successful candidate will have a good understanding of psychosexual therapy and trauma and be able to work non-judgementally, providing psychological treatment to clients with a range of complex presentations as part of the multi-disciplinary team. In addition, the post holder will oversee the clinic's innovative student addictions service at University College London.
Main duties of the job
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical/counselling psychology service to clients of the Club Drug Clinic and students referred to the Changing Unwanted Behaviour (CUBe) Clinic at University College London.
To supervise and support trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists as required.
To provide overall leadership and management of CUBe.
To contribute to the development of new and/or specialist psychological interventions to clients.
To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.
About us
CNWL Addictions Directorate is a large well-established NHS provider offering a wide range of high quality drug, alcohol and stop smoking treatment interventions to diverse and multicultural populations across North West London and Milton Keynes. Our specialist services include a Club Drug Clinic and national Gambling and Gaming clinics. We have an experienced and diverse nursing workforce and continue to expand on specialist roles and advance practice
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the clinics based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological (for clinical psychologists) tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients substance use and/or mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients 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 interventions for individuals 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.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically 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.
- To work specifically with clients of the Club Drug Clinic and CUBe contributing to the delivery of individual and group evidence-based psychological treatment programmes.
Teaching, training, and supervision
1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior Psychologist in Addictions and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical/counselling psychology over and above that provided within the principal service area where the postholder is employed, the amount and nature of such experience to be agreed with the Psychologist supervisor.
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff using psychological approaches, as appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, trainee clinical psychologists as well as any Band 7 psychologists within the team.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as required by the Lead Psychologist or senior Psychologist colleagues within the Directorate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- To provide staff of the Club Drug Clinic with training on MI/CBT and other evidence-based treatment programmes.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
- To provide significant support to the Club Drug Clinic manager through tasks relevant to the lead psychologist role
- To provide leadership and oversee the safe running of the CUBE clinic
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To take responsibility for inputting psychology activity and outcome data into the relevant database to allow for the monitoring of activity and outcomes within this service
- To contribute to the development of group-based psychological treatment programmes for gambling clients in conjunction with the Lead Psychologist for addictions and other Psychologist colleagues.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of assistant and graduate psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the clinics based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological (for clinical psychologists) tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients substance use and/or mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients 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 interventions for individuals 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.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically 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.
- To work specifically with clients of the Club Drug Clinic and CUBe contributing to the delivery of individual and group evidence-based psychological treatment programmes.
Teaching, training, and supervision
1. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior Psychologist in Addictions and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical/counselling psychology over and above that provided within the principal service area where the postholder is employed, the amount and nature of such experience to be agreed with the Psychologist supervisor.
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff using psychological approaches, as appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, trainee clinical psychologists as well as any Band 7 psychologists within the team.
- To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as required by the Lead Psychologist or senior Psychologist colleagues within the Directorate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
- To provide staff of the Club Drug Clinic with training on MI/CBT and other evidence-based treatment programmes.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
- To provide significant support to the Club Drug Clinic manager through tasks relevant to the lead psychologist role
- To provide leadership and oversee the safe running of the CUBE clinic
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To take responsibility for inputting psychology activity and outcome data into the relevant database to allow for the monitoring of activity and outcomes within this service
- To contribute to the development of group-based psychological treatment programmes for gambling clients in conjunction with the Lead Psychologist for addictions and other Psychologist colleagues.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of assistant and graduate psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling 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.
- HCPC registered
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- 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 delivering CBT interventions in a mental health or addictions setting
- Experience of working with the LGBT+ community
- 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
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experiencing of service development/leadership
- Experience of delivering psychodynamic and/or systemic interventions
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in a sexual health setting
- Experience working with young people
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling 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.
- HCPC registered
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- 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 delivering CBT interventions in a mental health or addictions setting
- Experience of working with the LGBT+ community
- 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
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experiencing of service development/leadership
- Experience of delivering psychodynamic and/or systemic interventions
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in a sexual health setting
- Experience working with young people
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
