Research Development Lead - Psychological Professions

Are you an experienced clinician and with a research interest looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to work across CNWL and Royal Holloway University of London?

We have an exciting opportunity for an innovativeClinical Psychologistto lead a number of workstreams developing research activity in the Trust and at RHUL. This post is a joint post with the RHUL Doctoral training course in Clinical Psychology and so the candidate will be working with the course for 2.5 days (secondment) and with CNWL for 2.5 days.

The successful candidate will work with the Trust Chief Psychologist, Director of Therapies, RHUL Programme Director, senior Psychologists and leaders across the Trust to support the development, implementation, training, and delivery of this very important project. We are looking for applications from highly motivated and enthusiastic candidates who are committed to diversifying and exploring the various opportunities for supporting research activity within Psychology services and teams as well as supporting Doctoral level research.

Psychology in CNWL has strong leadership and a distinct professional identity. TAs a Trust, we are committed to staff development and as such we are keen to invest in the development of practitioners who join our teams so we will work with you to consider how to enhance your knowledge, skills, clinical practice, leadership and confidence in working in this area further.

Mapping any current research projects underway at CNWL including those specific to psychological services.

Co-ordinating a Trust wide research special interest group & links between CNWL & RHUL staff to enable the development & delivery of an expanded portfolio of research.

Develop & deliver research training to trainee & qualified clinical psychologists for Psychology staff.

Supervising trainee clinical psychology research projects; both service-related research and Doctoral level theses.

As part of our commitment to address social inequalities in health, we are particularly seeking to employ psychologists with the drive to make a significant contribution to this key priority. We especially welcome applications from candidates with the valuable experience of the diverse social and cultural communities the Trust serves and from colleagues of Black Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage as we are seeking to ensure our psychology staffing has greater diversity & better represents local communities. The successful candidate will be supported to develop their career & flourish as a valued member of the psychology staff group.

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.

What we can offer you:
A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing as its core.

Flexible working

Access to a variety of CPD opportunities

As a Trust, we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation wide. Psychological professions staff are able to access a range of trust-wide CPD initiatives. CNWL also has seven established staff networks supporting a range of individual needs.

We are looking for well-rounded & experienced practitioners. Our staffwork pro-actively, with confidence and motivation, showing initiative which has contributed to the development of numerous award-winning services. We find that they are oftenflexible,robust and resourceful and able to manage the challenges of working in an environment which can be demanding.

We prioritize collaboration within our team and with our community partnerships, so we are hoping to find candidates who have the required communication and interpersonal skills that will allow them to thrive when working within their own team and with external partner organizations, in order to deliver this priority.

We encourage our staff to develop a specialist interest. This can be in any of the approaches practiced in the department, or an approach we don’t currently have available.

There are no clinical sessions assigned to this post but clinical time can be negotiated if requested.

Please see attached document for full Job Description and Person Specification for full information on the roles an expectations for this post