Clinical / Counselling Psychologist / Psychotherapist
We are looking to recruit an energetic and enterprising Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist/Systemic Family Therapist (with a core mental health qualification) to work in the Haringey Psychosis Psychological Therapies Pathway. The post will be based in the Haringey East Core Team. The Haringey Psychosis Psychological Therapies Pathway is an innovative and supportive team of psychologists, psychotherapists and systemic family therapists delivering psychological therapies to people with a primary diagnosis of psychosis across a range of adult community mental health teams in the borough.
Main Duties of the Job
The main duties of the post are to provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users within the Psychosis Pathway; to maintain a clinical role within the East Core teams formulating and implementing appropriate treatment plans within the clinical model of the service; to liaise with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across the services; to offer clinical supervision to colleagues as well as expert advice and teaching to other professionals; to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
About Us
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.
Why NLFT?
* We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
* We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
* NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
* Excellent internal staff network.
The post holder will be aligned with our Values:
* We Are Kind
* We Are Respectful
* We Work Together
* We Keep Things Simple
* We Empower
* We Are Proudly Diverse
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.
Job 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 clients care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients 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.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9. To communicate highly complex and potentially highly contentious information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in situations with patients who may be extremely hostile or highly emotional requiring the highest level of communication skills. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
* Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology as accredited by the BPS OR qualification as a psychotherapist requiring a significant period of training.
* Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist OR registration with an appropriate body such as the UKCP or BABCP.
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with psychosis.
* Experience of working across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with complex patients in a multi-disciplinary team context.
* Experience of working with diverse and multi-cultural communities.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of delivering interventions in a group format.
Knowledge & Skills
* Knowledge of the theory and skills in the practice of specialised psychological therapies with clients with psychosis.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, 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 via supervision of other staff.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two psychological therapies, such as CBT and CAT.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Psychological Therapies Lead for Psychosis
£51,883 to £58,544 a year pro rata per annum
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