Thank you for your interest for 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 to work within the Complex Anxiety Disorders and Depression pathway within the newly formed Enfield Integrated Core Teams. The CADD stream offers specialised therapy for complex presentations such as chronic and severe depression and anxiety disorders. Clients often present with trauma histories, personality disorder traits and may also have dual diagnosis presentations. The Enfield Integrated Core Teams are comprised of several different care pathways (Psychosis, Personality Disorder, Complex PTSD, Complex Anxiety Disorders and Depression, 18-25 Service, Step & Thrive, Dual Diagnosis, Voluntary Services, etc). The development of the Integrated Core Teams is in response to the NHS 10-year plan to develop mental health services around the Primary Care Networks and provides new opportunities which include developing partnership working with the voluntary sector, working more closely with GP practices and developing more innovative, community-based and holistic ways of working.
Main duties of the job
* Offering specialist psychological assessments and therapy of patients with complex presentations in line with qualifications in the person specification.
* Taking a central role within the therapy stream team both supporting and developing the efficient running of the therapy programme of groups and various individual therapy approaches.
* To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
* Supervision and consultation of band 7 psychologists, trainee psychologists and to other staff in the team as appropriate.
* Representing the CADD pathway at meetings and deputising for the Pathway lead as appropriate.
* To be involved in new service developments within the team in developing the transformation plans.
* Liaising with the voluntary sector, PCNs and other parts of the new transformation structure to offer specialist psychological consultation and input.
Working for our organisation
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 Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Haringey Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including at least two distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
* Registration with HCPC, UKCP or other relevant accreditation body.
Desirable criteria
* Training and qualifications in other fields of applied psychology or related fields.
* Eligibility for Chartered Psychologist status.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community/teams, primary care and inpatient and day 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 including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing risk management plans and supporting care of service users.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* At least 18 months working in a qualified post.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team setting to promote quality and better outcomes for service users.
* Experience of running a range of groups/workshops/courses for service users.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential criteria
* 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.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC/other relevant accreditation body.
* Experience of providing supervision.
Desirable criteria
* High level of knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies, one being CBT.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Competency in neuropsychological assessments.
* Formal training in supervision of clinical psychologists.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
OTHER
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.
* IT skills including e-mail, word processing and basic database.
Desirable criteria
* Personal experience of mental health problems and/or personal therapy.
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 costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
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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
* Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 432.4KB)
* Functional Requirements PDF (PDF, 258.2KB)
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