Specialist Psychologist in Sickle Cell Disorder

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The closing date is 12 February 2026

The role is to provide inpatient and outpatient specialist psychologist support to adults with sickle cell disorder within the red cell haematology service at Central Middlesex and Northwick Park hospitals and provide support for staff caring for this service user group.

Job Purpose:

To provide a qualified clinical health psychology service to adult service users of London North West University Hospital Trust (LNWHT) receiving care for sickle cell disorder, including highly specialist psychological assessment, treatment, planning, implementation, and monitoring of outcomes.

To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a specialist in psychological services for sickle cell disorder.

To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.

To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.

To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.

The postholder is directly employed by Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL), contracted to work as a specialist psychologist embedded within the clinical haematology red cell service at London North West University Hospital Trust (LNWH).

Our values and commitments:

At CNWL, our core values include compassion, respect, empowerment, and partnership. These values represent the way in which we care for those using our service, and for each other.

Key Responsibilities:

To provide specialist psychological assessments and formulation of service users referred to or by the sickle cell service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.

To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred service users when required.

To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the service users needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the service user, their family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.

To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.

To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.

To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of service users.

To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with service users to develop and review care plans.

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.

To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.

To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.

To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.

To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists with support from a more senior psychologist.

To supervise trainee applied psychologists within own area of specialism.

To contribute to the appraisal of more junior psychologists, as appropriate.

To contribute to the recruitment of more junior psychologists, as appropriate.

To provide supervision for the psychological work of other multi-disciplinary staff as appropriate.

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