Highly Specialised Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

Are you looking for an exciting and varied role where you will be able to work across a range of settings, as part of a well-established and supportive multi-disciplinary team? The Hillingdon Community Learning Disability Team have a Band 8A role available for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. Psychology is a valued part of the team and you would be joining an 8A psychotherapist, and Assistant Psychologist, who have strong connections to Learning Disabilities Services across the trust and in the NW London region.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the delivery of high-quality psychological services for adults with learning disabilities, their families, and carers.

You will play a key role in providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, as well as consultation and training to colleagues across health and social care.

In CNWL, psychological professions have a strong sense of leadership and a distinct professional identity. There is an emphasis on Continuing Professional Development and developing your skills in line with your career progression goals. As a Trust, we are committed to staff development and will work with you to identify your development goals and support you to access training to enhance your role.

Main duties of the job

The psychology provision within the Hillingdon Community Learning Disability Team includes assessing for learning disability, assessing service-users’ psychological needs, developing formulations to help individuals, families and systems to understand their needs and difficulties, and offering intervention at the appropriate level for the person referred (individual, family, system). As part of the multi-disciplinary team, psychologists also routinely work jointly with other professionals within and external to the service, to improve the quality of life and care for the person referred.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Deliver specialist psychological assessments and interventions for adults with learning disabilities accessing the Hillingdon Community Learning Disability Team including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• Provide consultation, supervision, and training to multidisciplinary colleagues functioning as a lead specialist in Learning Disability
• Contribute to service development, research, and audit activities.
• Work collaboratively with families, carers, and partner agencies to promote person-centred care.
• Support the team in embedding trauma-informed and evidence-based practice.