Employer: 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Ann's Hospital
Town: Haringey, London
Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 Per annum including Outer London Allowance
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/02/2025 23:59
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 7
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 role is for a creative and innovative clinical psychologist who is passionate about working with young adults (aged 18-25) who often fall through the gaps. The role involves working with young people, professionals, and teams to improve their experiences of the transition between CAMHS and AMHS. You will be part of a newly developed service embedded in the Adult Community Mental Health Teams, interfacing with teams across all of the CAMHS and AMHS, building trusted and therapeutic relationships.
This role will suit someone who wants to develop their skills in how psychologists can contribute to service design as the team continues to embed new ways of working for this age group. We welcome applicants who are committed to meeting the needs of young people and families.
Main duties of the job
Your main role as a Clinical Psychologist in the Haringey Transitions Pathway is to:
* Work as part of a team and network dedicated to the planning and support of young adults aged 18-25.
* Develop transition plans with and for young people (and their family and caring systems).
* Draw on a wide range of psychological approaches such as AMBIT, THRIVE, and Community Psychology approaches to service design, recognizing the impact of race, religion, age, disability, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
* Support the sharing of knowledge about working with young adults at all levels of the system.
* Co-produce and deliver group and community-based interventions with young people experiencing mental health difficulties.
* Supervise Peer Workers and Community Engagement Practitioners.
* Work with the team to co-design the pathway with young people and families, including working with the Youth Board in Haringey.
* Work at the interface with teams from CAMHS and AMHS to ensure that young people have transition plans and their needs are met as they transition to adulthood.
Working for our organisation
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. Provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. Ensure equity of outcome for all with our partners in North London and each borough.
3. Offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. Be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required to work at different locations to your normal place of work within Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide highly specialist psychological and systemic assessments of clients aged 18-25 years transitioning to Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), drawing on a range of specialist clinical skills, theory, and models.
The delivery of care and treatment will be agile and flexible, designed to meet the specific needs of young adults transitioning to AMHS. The postholder will work in community settings and in partnership with other organisations in young people’s networks.
* Formulate plans for the formal mental health treatment and/or management of a young person’s mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework.
* Coordinate mental health care packages appropriate for the client’s needs, ensuring effective communication between agencies, colleagues, children, young people, their parents, and/or carers.
* Undertake highly complex clinical assessments and provide written reports to assist others in decision making as well as to inform diagnosis and treatment plans.
This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
Person specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
* Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical Psychology, including models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
* Registration with the Health Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
* Experience of working in the NHS undertaking specialist psychological assessment and treatment across various care settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex data analysis within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Experience of working with patients with psychosis, personality disorder, and/or PTSD presentations.
* Experience of working with asylum seekers and providing therapy with the aid of interpreters.
* Experience of applying clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for public, professional, and academic settings.
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 previous employers.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please provide details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not family members).
Important Information
Vacancies advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Due to the high number of applications for some posts, we may 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.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date, regretfully, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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 a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Dr Nina Browne
Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist (Service Lead)
Email address: nina.browne1@nhs.net
Additional information: Razeenah.mahomed@nhs.net (Clinical Lead)
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