Assistant Psychologist Southall, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist with both a strong interest, and demonstrable experience of working with young people with mental health difficulties or neurodevelopmental conditions, to join West London CAMHS Service. We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Psychologist in our Adolescent Team at Ealing CAMHS. The post holder will support the team in delivering psychological services to children and young people and their families. This may include assisting with assessments, co-delivering therapeutic interventions, supporting the team with Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs), providing check-ins to families on our waiting lists, supporting audit, service evaluation, research and Quality Improvement (QI) projects, and being part of service-user involvement and co-production activities across CAMHS.
The post holder will support the local team in delivering psychological services to children and young people and their families who are referred into the locality team. This may include assisting with assessments and/or appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to the specific service (e.g. child & family, neurodevelopmental). The post holder will also contribute to any ongoing Quality Improvements Projects within the team. The post holder will work under the supervision and receive some supervision from a Specialist or Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologists within the team who will support adherence to professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental health concerns.
Please see our Candidate information pack for a comprehensive job description and person specification for this role. We welcome enquiries about the post to Dr Rob Brindley, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Joint Head of Psychology for CAMHS [email protected] 07355 028297.
