Practitioner Psychologist

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist interested in HIV and Sexual Health Psychology? We are recruiting to two roles within our well-established and respected HIV and Sexual Health team that provides specialist psychological services to patients and staff of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. This team sits within a diverse and supportive Clinical Health Psychology service., We are looking for passionate, committed and pro-active Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who are ableto manage the challenges of working in an environment which can be demanding, as well as hugely rewarding. We prioritise collaboration within our immediate team, with the MDTs with which we work, and with the wider sexual health and HIV community. We are thereforehoping to find candidates who have the required communication and interpersonal skills that willallow them to thrive when working across all these relationships in order to provide a meaningful service to the diverse populations we serve.Our team demonstrate an interest in providing a high level of service for service users and carersas well as an interest in service development.You will join a friendly, highly experienced and supportive team of clinicians, with opportunities to offer specialist psychological assessment and therapy to individuals and groups; provide supervision to assistant psychologists, trainee clinical /
counselling psychologists, and other health professionals; consult with service users and our MDT colleagues; work autonomously within professional guidelines and adhering to the team's policies and procedures; and conduct audit, service improvement initiatives and research within the field, including developing innovative ways of working to enhance patients' access to, experience of and outcomes from HIV and Sexual Health Psychology.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage & support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients & service users when working on our healthcare settings., CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy & policy, & many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. With us, you will get -

A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.

An opportunity to work for one of the top 10NHS employers