Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being 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.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
This is an exciting role located in our CAMHS Inpatient Unit, The Beacon Centre. This General Adolescent Unit sits within our CAMHS Crisis Pathway, which offers services to young people on the edge of crisis or in crisis. There is a dynamic therapies team (psychology, systemic therapy, art therapy and music therapy) who work within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting young people (13-18yrs) with complex needs including trauma. The Unit is expanding to offer 15 beds to young people, and the therapies team is growing to meet that increased need. The role will be supervised by a senior psychologist within the unit and supported by a wider MDT of experienced practitioners. There is an opportunity to supervise an assistant psychologist on the Unit.
Main duties of the job
The job is ideal for someone who is interested in working to engage young people who are in crisis and need support to draw out their strengths and hope for the future. The role involves building consistent, supportive relationships with young people and being able to help a young person generalise those relationships to other adults around them. There will be some psychological assessment, for the purposes of formulation driven intervention with young people on the unit. The unit has an current psychology group program which this role would support with the ongoing delivery and development of. Skills in risk and crisis management are essential, and work with wider networks is required to support a young person in a holistic way.
The role will also involve sharing psychological thinking within the clinical and nursing teams via formulation, training, and consultation, and using audit and service development skills for the purposes of Quality Improvement. There are plans to further develop co-production on the unit in order to improve the experience young people have during their stay and for future young people. The role includes opportunities for CPD as part of the North London Partnership's psychological therapies pathway.
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 fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay 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
To conduct psychological assessment, formulation and care planning with young people in mental health crisis who require a hospital admission, in conjunction with other team members.
• To deliver individual and group psychologically informed interventions, either jointly with the therapies team, or autonomously.
• To engage young people on the ward, and implement cognitive-behavioural and emotional regulation approaches, aimed at helping service users to improve their well-being and functioning.
• Support with risk assessment and safety planning, in conjunction with the wider inpatient team.
• To use skills in service evaluation and audit to evaluate and inform service development within the team. To lead on or contribute to quality improvement projects
• To contribute to MDT discussions, formulations, and CPD sessions and to provide teaching where required, as well as providing formal and informal consultation to other staff, to contribute positively to the therapeutic milieu
• To engage with the rest of the therapies team to consider packages of care offered to young people, and the development of a well-rounded therapies 'offer'
• To consider the validity and use of outcome and feedback measures within an inpatient context
• To be involved in co-production and supporting the feedback of young people to be heard and used to impact service delivery.
Person specification
Qualifications/Registrations
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology
* Professional Registration with HCPC to qualify as a Clinical Psychologist in the UK
Desirable criteria
* Further training in CBT, DBT or other relevant intervention for the client group
* Further training in supervision
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
* Skills in psychological assessment and treatment of children and young people, including developing individualised formulations.
* Excellent interpersonal skills & demonstrable ability to work flexibly and respectfully with others.
* Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable criteria
* An understanding of service evaluation methods in healthcare, and an ability to plan and implement quality improvement projects.
* Ability to maintain and manage own workload.
* Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
* Experience working with children and young people 0-18 yrs
* Experience working with young people at risk to themselves or others. Experience of working with and knowledge in processes around managing risk and safeguarding
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working with multidisciplinary and multiagency sharing psychological thinking through consultation, training or other means
* Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group.
* Experience working in inpatient settings
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 eg. 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
* Band 7 Psychologist JD PS (PDF, 568.3KB)
* Band 7 Psychologist JD PS (PDF, 568.3KB)
* Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 258.0KB)
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