North London Mental Health Partnership includes Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I).
Together, our two trusts employ around 6,000 staff and support almost a quarter of a million adults and children with mental health conditions. We are a forward-thinking, innovative organisation, committed to delivering the very best care possible.
We provide a wide range of mental health specialist services, including children and young people’s mental health services, prison services, forensic services, eating disorders and drug and alcohol recovery. We also support the UK Armed forces community, including members of the Reserve Forces, providing specialist veteran services across London.
Both our trusts are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, with many areas judged to be Outstanding.
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 Apprenticeship opportunities as well as employment opportunities for care-leavers.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
* We are a great place to work for our staff with occupational health services, wellbeing initiatives and staff incentives.
* We offer flexible working.
* Our staff are eligible for the NHS Pension Scheme and receive a generous annual leave allowance.
* Discounts are offered to NHS staff in a wide range of stores and services.
* We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
* We support learning and personal development opportunities.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Psychologist to join the multi-disciplinary Community Team in the Camden and Islington Personality Disorder Service in North London Foundation Trust. The post-holder will join the Team Manager, Senior Social Worker and Consultant Psychiatrists in leading the team which is made up of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Nurses and counselling psychologists. The Community Team works alongside the Therapies Team and the Liaison Team in the Personality Disorder Service and the post holder is also a member of the whole service management group.
The main purpose of the role is to bring a psychological perspective to the work of the Community Team, which functions within a framework of psychologically-informed and change-focused case management and provides assessment, consultation and interventions to people with difficulties understood as severe 'personality disorder'. The post holder will also hold a small caseload offering individual and group interventions. The team currently uses psychologically-informed and change-focused case management and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) in their work with clients, and the post holder will be part of the DBT Team which works across both the Community Team and the Therapies Team in the service.
The post holder will have the opportunity to provide senior clinical input for the management of complex cases and to chair a weekly formulation-based discussion.
Main duties of the job
* Screening and responding to Community Team referrals.
* Providing assessment to clients and consultation to staff.
* Providing psychological interventions to clients within a CPA/Dialog + framework.
* Clinically supervising Psychology colleagues and those from other disciplines.
* Contributing to the clinical and operational management of the Personality Disorder Service.
* Providing training to Trust colleagues and partner agencies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICAL / OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
* To provide psychological assessments for referred clients.
* To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients with a range of problems, severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours, and to provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
* To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
* To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
* To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
* To provide professional and clinical supervision to junior psychologists, trainee clinical and counselling psychologists and assistant psychologists.
* To provide advice, consultation, training and supervision, where appropriate, to other health and social care staff working with the client group.
* To regularly attend and facilitate group supervision.
POLICY, SERVICE, ORGANISATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
* To utilise evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
* To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
* To participate in and contribute to clinical audit and service evaluation with colleagues within the service, to help evaluate and improve service provision, proposing changes to working practice and procedures for own work area as required.
* To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical or counselling psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
* To participate in an agreed programme of training and continuing professional development and maintain an active engagement with current developments in psychological practice in areas related to the post.
* To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology.
* Current registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a practitioner psychologist.
* Post-Doctoral training in Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) or brief psychodynamic therapies.
Skills/ Abilities
* Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health.
* Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Skills in contributing to service development and supporting services through organisational change.
* Skills in research, audit and service evaluation in a clinical setting.
* Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
Experience
* Experience of psychological assessment and therapy with people with difficulties conceptualised as personality disorder.
* Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* Experience of teaching and training.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working using therapy models with people diagnosed with personality disorder (such as MBT, DBT, brief psychodynamic models).
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team that works within Care Programme Approach frameworks or Dialog +.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Experience of providing clinical supervision to trainee and/or assistant clinical psychologists, and professionals from other disciplines.
In line with NHS protocols, only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We regret that it is not possible to contact all applicants for every vacancy. If you have not been contacted within 4-6 weeks of the closing date please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions, when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. We are an employer committed to Equal Opportunities and Diversity, with a range of family friendly policies.
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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