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AHP
Gradd
Band 8a
Contract
Parhaol
Oriau
Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos
Cyfeirnod y swydd
455-NLFT-0097
Cyflogwr
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Math o gyflogwr
NHS
Gwefan
Beacon Centre
Tref
Barnet
Cyflog
£59,490 - £66,239 Per annum including HCAS
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10/06/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Band 8a

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/ 

Trosolwg o'r swydd

We are looking for an enthusiastic highly skilled Clinical Psychologist with an interest in inpatient and day service work to join the NCL commissioned CAMHS Inpatient Service based at Edgware Hospital. The North London Partnership CAMHS division is going through an exciting transformation, and this is an opportunity to contribute to change and implementation a trauma informed approach in these services. The division is in the process of implementing service transformation using the THRIVE framework of system change. This post is an exciting opportunity not only to utilise a range of clinical skills while working with young people and complex systems, but also to be actively involved in supervision and overall service development. They will work closely with the allied health professional and nursing teams to provide high quality care.
The Beacon Centre CAMHS Service delivers highly intensive multidisciplinary Inpatient care to young people who are displaying high risk and Acuity of Emotional dysregulation and Mental Illness, supporting young people and their families in the NCL area. The Beacon Day Centre aims to shorten the length of inpatient admissions providing best outcomes for young people in a least disruptive way by supporting links to Community and providing meaningful structure. 

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Clinical

  • To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
  • To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
  • To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
  • To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

  • To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

Teaching, training, and supervision


  • To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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.  

  1. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all  

  1. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.  

  1. 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 fall 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.

Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

Please see attached  JD. and person specification for further details or you can contact the service manager details below to discuss.

 

Manyleb y person

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist.
Meini prawf dymunol
  • Additional post-doctoral training in evidence-based therapies e.g. CBT, DBT, systemic therapy and EMDR. Additional training in assessment approaches e.g. ADOS, 3DI AF / I

EXPERIENCE

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of young people and adolescents with mental health difficulties and learning difficulties across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Experience of working collaboratively with other NHS professional groups Experience of working in consultation and collaboratively with Social Care Teams 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. Demonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 2 years.
Meini prawf dymunol
  • Experience of working within a specialist learning disability service. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc). Knowledge of
Meini prawf dymunol
  • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Bathodynnau ardystio / achredu cyflogwyr

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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Helmut Kolakowski
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Service Manager
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[email protected]
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02087026698
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