Job overview
We are excited to offer the opportunity of joining our innovative, trauma led Barnet Adult Psychology service as a Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. We are looking to recruit to a full time post (37.5 hours per week).
We serve diverse communities across Barnet providing assessment and treatment to adults with moderate to severe, and highly complex mental health, and who predominantly struggle with complex trauma. We specialise in trauma-based interventions including EMDR and NET, alongside interventions focused on complex emotional needs and wider mental health, including CAT, Schema-Focused, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy, and a range of CBT and third-wave interventions. Psychological Therapists have access to specialist supervision and training to complement their working, and we are committed to a high standard of CPD.
In your role you will also work into the Barnet Core Community Mental Health Teams and alongside voluntary sector partners.
As part of the North London Mental Health Partnership, our services are based around the premise of not “what is the matter with you" but "what matters to you”. Our interventions are designed to enable our service users to identify their pathway in life and to support them to find a sustainable way to stay on it, supporting a recovered function, working with them and the people in their lives that are important to them.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a clinical/counselling psychologist who would benefit in the role from having a background of working with complex trauma and PTSD.
The core features of this role include:
1. Providing psychological assessment, formulation, treatment planning, and implementation of psychological interventions for services users.
2. Providing specialist psychological input through consultation, supervision and professionals meetings to other professionals contributing directly to the clients’ care plan, and to wider agencies serving our client groups.
3. Providing and receiving teaching, training, and supervision.
4. Ongoing research and service evaluation.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for detail description of duties.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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 clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To be noted:
* This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
Person specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical Psychology specifically including models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
* Registration with the Health Care Professions Council as a Clinical psychologist.
Desirable criteria
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
* Experience of working in the NHS undertaking specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working with patients with psychosis, personality disorder and/or PTSD presentations
* Experience of working with asylum seekers and of providing therapy with the aid of interpreters
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential criteria
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
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