Job summary
We are inviting applications from dynamic Clinical or Counselling psychologists to join our well-established and respected multidisciplinary HIV, Sexual Health and Sexual Problems services. We are particularly interested to receive applications from psychologists with experience in or relevant to the specialism of HIV, sexual health and psychosexual difficulties.
The role offers a broad range of opportunities including the provision of individual and group therapy to people experiencing sexual health related difficulties, supervision and consultation to MDT colleagues, teaching, as well as service development.The role would suit psychologists who are passionate about supporting people who have experienced social and political marginalisation. It provides opportunities to work critically and systemically with themes including the impact of social stigma and intersectional identities.
The successful candidate/s will be joining a team of experienced psychologists, passionate about delivering high quality and innovative HIV and sexual health services. The team was shortlisted for Team of the Year at CNWL's Therapies Awards in 2023.
The successful candidates will be supported in their professional development with access to high quality CPD from CNWL 's psychological workforce development. The post holders will receive clinical supervision from an experienced senior psychologist and line management from the lead psychologist.
Main duties of the job
- To provide specialist psychological and psychosexual assessments of clients referred to the psychology service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales and semi-structured interviews with clients and others involved in their care.
- To formulate and implement treatment and/or management plans of clients' psychological and psychosexual difficulties, 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 couples, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon evidence-based psychological models and approaches.
- To provide specialist advice and consultation and supervision to psychology and MDT colleagues and other people involved in client's care, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. Part of the role may include staff support, providing debriefs and regular reflective practice to teams, as well as MDT teaching.
- To contribute to routine data collection, audit and evaluation of patient measures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
- To maintain relevant professional registration and individual Accreditation. To comply with HCPC, UKCP, BPC and other relevant professional Accreditation bodies' Codes of Practice.
About us
Working as a qualified psychologist in CNWL
CNWL is responsible for the provision of primary and secondary mental health care, as well as specialist services in addictions, sexual health, prisons, intellectual disabilities, perinatal mental health, acute wards and physical health to diverse populations across London, Milton Keynes and Surrey.
Values
At CNWL we recruit to our values:
We expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Clinical
- To provide specialist psychological and psychosexual assessments of clients, together with their partners and carers as appropriate, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
- To formulate and devise psychological and psychosexual treatment and management plans for referred clients and to provide psychological treatment, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to colleagues and other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
- To provide specialist consultation and guidance to colleagues and other professionals on psychological/psychosexual intervention.
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
- To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
- Teaching, training, and supervision
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, as required, ensuring the trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies. To provide clinical supervision of trainee psychologists and psychosexual therapy trainees as required.
- To continue to develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and clinical supervision.
- To provide advice, consultation, training and supervision to other health and social care staff working with the client group (e.g. nurses, doctors, psychologists) and within the trust, as appropriate.
- To contribute to teaching and training of psychologists and other health professionals within and outside of the service.
- Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need to be addressed.
- To manage the workloads of trainee psychologists and psychosexual therapists, within the framework of the services policies and procedures.
- Research and service evaluation
- To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support and critique evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
- To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop and evaluate service provision.
- General
- To ensure the development and maintenance of the highest personal standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholders professional and service manager(s).
- To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area, by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the HCPC and Trust policies and procedures.
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group.
- To undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of the post, as may be agreed with the Lead Psychologist for HIV and Sexual Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Clinical
- To provide specialist psychological and psychosexual assessments of clients, together with their partners and carers as appropriate, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
- To formulate and devise psychological and psychosexual treatment and management plans for referred clients and to provide psychological treatment, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to colleagues and other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
- To provide specialist consultation and guidance to colleagues and other professionals on psychological/psychosexual intervention.
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
- To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
- Teaching, training, and supervision
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, as required, ensuring the trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies. To provide clinical supervision of trainee psychologists and psychosexual therapy trainees as required.
- To continue to develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and clinical supervision.
- To provide advice, consultation, training and supervision to other health and social care staff working with the client group (e.g. nurses, doctors, psychologists) and within the trust, as appropriate.
- To contribute to teaching and training of psychologists and other health professionals within and outside of the service.
- Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need to be addressed.
- To manage the workloads of trainee psychologists and psychosexual therapists, within the framework of the services policies and procedures.
- Research and service evaluation
- To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support and critique evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
- To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop and evaluate service provision.
- General
- To ensure the development and maintenance of the highest personal standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholders professional and service manager(s).
- To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area, by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the HCPC and Trust policies and procedures.
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group.
- To undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of the post, as may be agreed with the Lead Psychologist for HIV and Sexual Health.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral training in Clinical / Counselling Psychology
- Registration with HCPC
- Evidence of continuous and relevant professional development (CPD).
Desirable
- Training in / experience of supervision
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience across the range of ages and presenting issues and severity
- Clinical experience of working with individuals and groups
- Experience of working effectively with complex MDT
- Experience of working with different cultural contexts and diversity
- Experience of working with HIV, SH or similar e.g. health psychology
- Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
Desirable
- Experience of working with sexual difficulties
Skills
Essential
- Skills in complex assessment and formulation
- Effective communication skills, verbally and in writing
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Well-developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients - service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues in a range of settings within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of legislation and academic literature of the specialism of HIV and sexual health and mental health generally.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, people with additional needs).
Ability
Essential
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to equality & diversity.
Desirable
- An interest in developing some area of clinical expertise.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral training in Clinical / Counselling Psychology
- Registration with HCPC
- Evidence of continuous and relevant professional development (CPD).
Desirable
- Training in / experience of supervision
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience across the range of ages and presenting issues and severity
- Clinical experience of working with individuals and groups
- Experience of working effectively with complex MDT
- Experience of working with different cultural contexts and diversity
- Experience of working with HIV, SH or similar e.g. health psychology
- Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
Desirable
- Experience of working with sexual difficulties
Skills
Essential
- Skills in complex assessment and formulation
- Effective communication skills, verbally and in writing
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Well-developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients - service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues in a range of settings within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of legislation and academic literature of the specialism of HIV and sexual health and mental health generally.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, people with additional needs).
Ability
Essential
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals, in accordance with professional ethics guidelines and Trust policies.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to equality & diversity.
Desirable
- An interest in developing some area of clinical expertise.
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).
