Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | West London NHS Trust

Every child has the right to a safe and supportive family life and Adopt London West aspires to promote best practice across its adoption and special guardianship support services. We are seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to support the team to excel and whom is committed to innovative practice and building empathic, respectful and trusting relationships to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and adoptive families.

The clinical psychologist will join the existing Adopt London West Clinical Psychologists who are themselves part of the wider Brighter Futures Psychology Service based in Ealing's Childrens Social Care. The role is based in Ealing, with across London travel and hybrid working is encouraged. The post holder will be supported and supervised by the Principal Clinical Psychologist for Brighter Futures.

The team values are a committed, empathic and trauma-informed approach to the work with children, their carers, families and the professional network. Applicants must be keen to facilitate service development and be open to develop new ways of working, demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in their approach to their work and team life and be willing to practice in a collaborative way. A key aspect of this work is a committed, empathic and trauma-informed and responsive approach with children young people and their parents and the team, building on strengths and resiliencies.

Offering consultation to develop reflective thinking and sharing complex psychological formulation in an accessible way is a key skill within this role. The role will also include delivering training and skills development sessions for social workers, supporting therapeutic parenting approaches, facilitating groups and providing a specialist and intensive assessment, support and intervention service for the children, young people, adoptive parents and the network around them. The Adopt London West Team have been trained in Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) and the post holder will be expected to attend this and any available trainings to support the development of an attachment and trauma-informed model of practice, as well as offering a range of other interventions suitable for adopted children and their families. This a varied role which offers the opportunity for service development, leadership skills and working with teams/ systems around adopted children, young
people and their families.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.

The Trust is rated as 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.