Main area: AHP
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Per Annum)
Job ref: 306-BEH-2298-B
Site: Bay Tree House
Town: Christchurch
Salary: £59,490 - £66,239 Per Annum Inclu Outer London HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/11/2024 23:59
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.
Main duties of the job
* Provision of specialist assessments with clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including 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, when and where appropriate.
* Formulation and implementation of plans with shared decision making for intervention and/or management of young person’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.
* Implementation of a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining the formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
* Evaluation and decision-making about intervention 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.
Person specification
* Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or equivalent);
* Registration with the Health Professions Council;
* Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention;
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children;
* Skills in providing consultation to other professionals;
* Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects;
* Experience of specialist assessment and intervention.
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One must 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.
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.
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.
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