Job overview

Harrow Psychology is excited to be recruiting for a new Clinical Associate Psychologist to join our expanding psychological therapies team.  This post will be based in our Adult Community Mental Health Hub (Bentley House CMHH) and work integratively with the multi-disciplinary team including psychology, psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy and peer support.  Psychological services are provided to adults experiencing a range of mental health difficulties; including psychosis, complex emotional needs and PTSD as well as difficulties associated with anxiety and mood.

In line with the NHS 10-Year Long Term Plan, CNWL is pioneering in its Trauma-Informed Approach and now influencing national policy (see NHSE Guidelines for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Care for Adults and Older Adults, 2023). Harrow is also leading in its innovative Complex Emotional Needs Pathway, which includes the provision of a full DBT program.

If you are passionate about delivering innovative psychologically-informed care, come and join our established team of psychologists with a diverse range of expertise.  Specialist supervision is available from senior clinicians in a variety of modalities.  Psychology is well integrated and highly valued, with excellent MDT relationships. You must have a strong commitment to teamwork, an ability to facilitate ongoing development of the psychology service and to work sensitively within a culturally diverse environment.

Main duties of the job

The Harrow Community Mental Health Hub, adult inpatient wards and Home Treatment Team work closely together as an integrated system, which provides holistic intervention to adults with mental health difficulties living in Harrow. The post holders will join an expanding therapies team, committed to providing highly specialist and trauma-informed psychological care, integrated across this system. They will work closely with the full range of MDT professionals, including psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy and peer support. They will play a key role in the assessment of service users presenting to community services, the development of creative and multi-disciplinary care plans, and the provision of psychological intervention that follows service users across the whole system.  They will also input into our innovative Complex Emotional Needs pathway following a DBT framework.

The post-holder will be expected to work as a member of the multi-professional team, including the provision of consultation, co-working, teaching, training, supervision and research as well as developing specific training to enhance the systematic provision of psychological interventions offered to service users by all members of the team within a ‘stepped-care’ framework.  They will make a leading contribution to the learning culture of the team and wider service, and play an integral role in the further development and embedding of Trauma-Informed Approaches.

Working for our organisation

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.

There’s a place for you at CNWL.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. 
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.