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
The post-holder will work as a member of the Urgent Care Service in Barnet, part of the North London Foundation Trust. This post oversees and continuously improves the quality and culture, as well as the therapeutic offer available in the acute care services in the inpatient wards. The post carries a specific remit to work with the ward teams to develop a systematic, consistent, and effective response to the common issues that arise within acute care settings that can have a powerful impact on the overall effectiveness and quality of experience for people using the service and the staff working in it.
Main duties of the job
* Responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service within the acute care pathway, including undertaking psychological assessments, evidence-based short-term psychological interventions, and contributing to the ward-based therapeutic group work program.
* Provide psychological formulation and consultation to contribute to the care plans and management of service users currently being treated on the ward or in CRHTT.
* Work collaboratively as a team member of both the psychological therapies acute care team and the ward MDT, including the provision of joint assessments with Consultant Psychiatrists.
* Provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment, and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and non-professional carers.
* Supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by attached doctoral trainees and supervise psychologically driven treatment interventions by other members of the MDT.
* Provide training, supervision, and support to other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
Working for our organisation
Working for North London Foundation Trust
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 NHS Foundation Trust.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
* We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
* Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practice in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
* Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff, and visitors.
* Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
* We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension, and so much more.
* Generous Annual Leave Allowance.
* NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
* We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service within the acute care pathway, including undertaking psychological assessments, evidence-based short-term psychological interventions, and contributing to the ward-based therapeutic group work program.
* Provide psychological formulation and consultation to contribute to the care plans and management of service users currently being treated on the ward or in CRHTT.
* Work collaboratively as a team member of both the psychological therapies acute care team and the ward MDT, including the provision of joint assessments with Consultant Psychiatrists.
* Provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment, and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and non-professional carers.
* Supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by attached doctoral trainees and supervise psychologically driven treatment interventions by other members of the MDT.
* Provide training, supervision, and support to other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within the service/team.
* Utilize skills for research and audit and contribute to policy and service development in relation to the Psychological Therapies provision.
Person specification
Qualification and Registration
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology, and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
* Eligibility for Chartered Status with BPS.
* Registered with HCPC as a psychologist.
Desirable criteria
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology or equivalent.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Competency in neuropsychological assessments.
* 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.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* An ability to use and demonstrate psychological model-based formulations as part of clinical and care management planning.
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g., PTSD, psychosis, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities).
* High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Experience, including in the NHS, of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care 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.
* Experience of working as a fully integrated MDT member.
* Multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing Risk management plans and supporting care of service users.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working systemically with MDT to promote quality and better outcomes for service users.
* Experience of running a range of groups/workshops/courses for service users with psychosis and their carers.
* Experience of supporting reflective practice.
* Experience of participating in or supporting post-incident support.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* An enthusiasm and commitment to the psychological treatment of those in the acute care pathway.
* Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
* Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers.
* Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and the stress of others.
* Ability to demonstrate Trust Values.
Desirable criteria
* A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit.
Other requirements
Essential criteria
* Ability to teach and train others using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance to support and maintain clinical practice.
* IT skills including e-mail, word processing, and basic database.
Desirable criteria
* Personal experience of mental health problems.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Ability to support MDT members in the provision of psychologically driven interventions.
* Interest and ability to contribute to service development.
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 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.
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 that in the event you are successful, your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.
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
* NLFT Barnet Inpatient Job Advert (PDF, 584.3KB)
* Barnet Urgent Care JD and Person Spec Inpatient Psychologist (PDF, 432.4KB)
* NLFT Functional Requirements (PDF, 536.5KB)
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