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This is the Consultant Psychologist/Psychological Practitioner post for Lakeside Mental Health Unit. The role involves both leadership of an adult inpatient psychology team and direct clinical work on the acute ward. Lakeside Mental Health Unit is based in the borough of Hounslow, comprising five acute mental health wards and a health-based place of safety. Service users present in acute mental health crisis with a diverse range of psychological needs and risk concerns and are in need of intensive treatment, with most service users detained under the Mental Health Act.

We are seeking a passionate and committed candidate to work in partnership with the Associate Director for Psychological Professions based in Acute Mental Health Services to provide clinical and strategic leadership to the inpatient psychology team. The team consists of a clinical psychologist, counselling psychologist, clinical associate in psychology, and an assistant psychologist. The team also provides placements to trainee clinical psychologists from the North Thames courses and students from the MSc in Early Intervention in Psychosis.

This role will include the delivery of a comprehensive psychology service to one of the acute wards, delivering evidence-based psychological interventions and proactively working with the MDT on a psychologically informed approach to care and management of risk concerns.

Lead on the provision and delivery of a comprehensive psychology service including direct and indirect psychological interventions, facilitate team formulation for MDT colleagues, facilitate reflective practice, consultation, and provision of post-incident support.

To supervise and line manage other qualified staff and oversee supervision and line management in the team. Where appropriate, provide clinical supervision to psychology colleagues in other Trust services and/or MDT colleagues.

Work in partnership with the Associate Director for Psychological Professions based in Acute Mental Health Services and senior management colleagues working on the unit.

Be responsible for the good clinical governance, quality, and appropriateness of the work of the inpatient psychology team.

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 the 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 over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

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.

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. Please view as attached.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology and/or accredited psychological practitioner with extensive experience working as a band 8b.
• Formal training in the supervision of psychological staff.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in accordance with professional registration requirements.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.

• Significant clinical experience, including a significant period of post-qualification experience within acute services.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient, and residential care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care.
• Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of professional management of qualified psychologists/psychological practitioners and pre-qualified psychology staff.
• Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.
• Experience in the assessment and treatment of service users with interpersonal and relational difficulties.

• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the patient group and mental health system.
• Knowledge of and a good understanding of the framework of government and national policy.
• A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical, and highly sensitive clinical information or highly contentious information to service users, their families, carers (where there are significant barriers to acceptance in a hostile, antagonistic, or highly emotive atmosphere), and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS. This includes communication to the Courts and Mental Health Tribunals as an expert witness.
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for service users that have specific needs and are groups for which there are barriers to engagement.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and, as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.