Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
* Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
* Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Tri-borough Neurodevelopmental Team and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team across the Tri-borough. This is a full-time post, but we are also open to applications for part time/flexible working.
The ND Tri-borough team is a very supportive, friendly, and welcoming multi-disciplinary team with a well-established clinical/counselling psychology discipline, family therapy discipline, and child psychotherapy discipline. We are looking for a clinician with a broad range of experience, including experience of working with children and families who present with a high level of complexity, as the work will assess and treat a diverse range of difficulties.
The post holder will be part of the Neurodevelopmental team across the Tri-borough, providing a specialist service to children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs (e.g. ASD, ADHD). Offering specialist assessments, contributing to the diagnostic process, and formulating areas of strengths and needs to inform evidence-based interventions. In addition to providing clinical supervision to clinicians and trainees, the Post holder will also provide support and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, professionals, and non-professional staff.
Main duties of the job
* The Post holder will provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive service for children and young people referred to the neurodevelopmental assessment and to provide this service to their carers/parents and families.
* The Post holder will provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based neurodevelopmental and psychological interventions for service users. This will include providing specialist assessment and contributing to multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the Neurodevelopmental team.
* The Post holder is expected to liaise with and offer advice or consultation on clients' psychological care to parents and/or carers, colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services and appropriate agencies.
* The Post holder will undertake risk assessment and risk management for clients and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
* The Post holder is expected to have up-to-date knowledge related to safeguarding children and adults and be able to follow safeguarding processes and provide safeguarding supervision to their supervisees.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, 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 falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. 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
* The post holder is expected to provide teaching and training to junior members of staff when necessary.
* The post holder will support the development of neurodevelopmental services through the supervision and line management of trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists, band 7 clinical/counselling psychologist, and/or band 7 child psychotherapists and family therapists. The number of supervisees depends on the contracted hours and job plan. The line management and supervision are evenly distributed within the team.
* The post holder will contribute to service development within the neurodevelopmental assessments and pathway, this includes participation in quality improvement projects and research.
This is not an exhaustive list; please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
* Professional qualification in clinical psychology or counselling psychology.
* Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).
* Training in ADOS-2.
Desirable criteria
* ADI-R and/or 3d.
* Further training in a specialized area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent).
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
* Ability to engage with work that requires sustained and intense concentration.
* Good written and verbal communication skills to communicate complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Ability to contain, explore, and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly in their network.
* Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression, or the threat of physical aggression.
* Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence-based interventions.
Desirable criteria
* Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Interest and/or experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs including ASD and ADHD in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area.
* Excellent knowledge of neurodevelopmental conditions and related mental health problems.
* Good working knowledge of current and emerging areas of good practice in neurodevelopmental assessment and neurodevelopmental services.
* Experience of supervising clinicians.
* Experience in offering consultation to referrers and signposting to alternative services.
Desirable criteria
* Additional specialist training related to neurodevelopmental disorders.
* Experience of working in a range of cultural contexts.
* Practical experience administering 3di or ADI-R.
* Experience of cognitive assessments (WISC-V, WPPSI-IV, WAIS-IV).
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* A commitment to service users' participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation.
* High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
* Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
* Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
* Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision.
Desirable criteria
* Awareness and understanding of emotional distress/mental health problems drawn from personal experience.
* Positive attitude to change.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values.
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents, e.g., Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make cost savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* Band 8a NDS Clinical Psychologist Job Description (PDF, 824.3KB)
* NLFT Functional Requirements (PDF, 608.5KB)
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