Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Tri-borough Neurodevelopmental Team and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team across the Tri-borough. This is a full-time post, but we are also open to applications for part time/flexible working.
The ND Tri-borough team is a very supportive, friendly, and welcoming multi-disciplinary team with a well-established clinical/counselling psychology discipline, family therapy discipline and child psychotherapy discipline. We are looking for a clinician with a broad range of experience, including experience of working with children and families who present with a high level of complexity, as the work will assess and treat a diverse range of difficulties.
The post holder will be part of the Neurodevelopmental team across the Tri-borough, providing a specialist service to children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs (e.g. ASD, ADHD). Offering specialist assessments, contributing to the diagnostic process, and formulating areas of strengths and needs to inform on evidence-based interventions. In addition to providing clinical supervision to clinicians and trainees, the Post holder will also provide support and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, professionals, and non-professional staff.
Main duties of the job
1. The Post holder will provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive service for children and young people referred to the neurodevelopmental assessment and to provide this service to their carers/parents and families.
2. The Post holder will provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based neurodevelopmental and psychological interventions for service users. This will include providing specialist assessment and contributing to multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the Neurodevelopmental team.
3. The Post holder is expected to liaise with and offer advice or consultation on clients' psychological care to parents and/or carers, colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services and appropriate agencies.
4. The Post holder will undertake risk assessment and risk management for clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
5. The Post holder is expected to have up to date knowledge related to safeguarding children and adults and be able to follow safeguarding processes and provide safeguarding supervision to their supervisees.
About us
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. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will 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 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.
Date posted: 24 February 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £59,490 to £66,239 a year Per annum including HCAS
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 306-BEH-2629
Job locations: St Ann's Hospital, London, N15 3TH
Job description Job responsibilities
1. The post holder is expected to provide teaching and training to junior members of staff when necessary.
2. The post holder will support the development of neurodevelopmental services through the supervision and line management of trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists, band 7 clinical/counselling psychologists and/or band 7 child psychotherapists and family therapists. The number of supervisees depends on the contracted hours and job plan. The line management and supervision are evenly distributed within the team.
3. The post holder will contribute to service development within the neurodevelopmental assessments and pathway, this includes participation in quality improvement projects and research.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations Essential
* Professional qualification in clinical psychology or counselling psychology
* Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* Training in ADOS-2
Desirable
* ADI-R and/or 3d
* Further training in a specialized area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent)
Skills/ Abilities Essential
* Ability to engage with work that requires sustained and intense concentration.
* Good written and verbal communication skills to communicate complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly in their network.
* Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression, or the threat of physical aggression.
* Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence-based interventions.
Desirable
* Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Experience/ Knowledge Essential
* Interest and/or experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs including ASD and ADHD in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area.
* Excellent knowledge of neurodevelopmental conditions and related mental health problems.
* Good working knowledge of current and emerging areas of good practice in neurodevelopmental assessment and neurodevelopmental services.
* Experience of supervising clinicians.
* Experience in offering consultation to referrers and signposting to alternative services.
Desirable
* Additional specialist training related to neurodevelopmental disorders.
* Experience of working in a range of cultural contexts.
* Practical experience administering 3di or ADI-R.
* Experience of cognitive assessments (WISC-V, WPPSI-IV, WAIS-IV).
Personal Qualities Essential
* A commitment to service users' participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation.
* High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
* Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships.
* Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
* Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision.
Desirable
* Awareness and understanding of emotional distress/mental health problems drawn from personal experience.
* Positive attitude to change.
Other Requirements Essential
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name: 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: St Ann's Hospital, London, N15 3TH
Employer's website: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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