Assistant Psychologist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an Assistant Psychologist to provide psychology provision to the adult wards within the St Charles Mental Health Centre based in North Kensington. The service has four open acute wards, two Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs). The service primarily works with patients who are resident in Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster (KCW).

The post holder would be expected to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service. They would help provide psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist drawing on their supervisor’s expertise and intervention as and when advised and directed. This might include joint and individual direct work with clients and families, group work, indirect interventions on the ward and consultation to other MDT members. They would work according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. They would assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

· To assist practitioner psychologists in the delivery of a specialist applied psychology service in adult acute psychology inpatient services.

· To provide clinical work as required by the service, under the direct guidance, close clinical and professional supervision of a practitioner psychologist.

· To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

Some of the main duties include: facilitating daily DBT-informed group programmes on the wards; and delivering structured 1:1 interventions using the Stabilisation manual or other evidence-based resources.

Offering structured 1

1 interventions to carers and family members. Supporting the clinical psychologists in delivering case team formulation sessions. Attending MDT meetings and representing the psychology department in multidisciplinary discussions. Attending regular training and supervision sessions and completing administrative duties. All of your clinical work should only be completed under the direct supervision of a clinical psychologist. We are supportive of any ideas involving the local communities in Kensington and Westminster, and of helping us build partnerships with other local organisations.

The Acute Psychology Pathway in Kensington & Chelsea provides integrated psychological care to services users from our six adult inpatient wards at the St Charles Mental Health Unit and other parts of the urgent care pathway including Home Treatment Teams (HTT) and Mental Health Crisis Assessment Services. Continuity of psychological care is delivered across the whole system, with intervention from this pathway following service users’ treatment journey from acute services to the community Hubs and other community support.

The post-holder will provide psychology provision to the Adult wards based within the St Charles Mental Health Centre based in North Kensington. The service has four open acute wards, a male-only Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and a female only PICU. The unit primarily works with patients who are resident in Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster (KCW).

Work includes liaison and working with both client systems and professional networks involved in working with clients with enduring organic and/or functional mental health difficulties which may involve emotional and behavioural disturbance, acute and chronic physical and mental illness, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities (autistic spectrum disorders), some progressive (e.g. dementia) where the resolution of the problem is not possible.

• · To provide psychological assessments for clients in the adult acute psychology inpatient services under the close supervision of a practitioner psychologist including development and implementation of the trauma informed approach within KCW acute and urgent care mental health service
• · To provide protocol based individual psychological interventions for clients in the KCW acute and urgent care mental health services including trauma informed approach
• To arrange, schedule and provide protocol-based group psychological interventions for clients in the adult acute psychology inpatient services including trauma informed approach interventions and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy-informed skills groups.
• To support the carer support interventions, including the carer support group, the 1:1 carer interventions and the delivery of skill-based groups for carers at the local Recovery College.
• To assist the psychologists in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials.
• To support the administration of psychological and neuropsychological tests. To collect feedback forms and outcome measures.

This advert closes on Friday 22 May 2026

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