Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0036-A
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital
- Town
- Barnet
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/06/2025 09:00
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Early Intervention Service
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This 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.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work within the Barnet Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIS) Team as a one-year secondment. As an embedded psychologist, you will support the EIS Psychology Lead to provide a high-quality psychological service to service users referred to the EIS team. This psychological work will include both direct working with service users and their family members as well as indirect working through consultation, formulation, and psychologically informed input into team meetings. Collaborative joint working with the wider multi-disciplinary team is an integral part of this role. You will also be supporting the team as they work towards their Early Intervention in Psychosis Network (EPIN) accreditation.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary Barnet EIS. They would be expected to:
1) Offer a psychological therapies service providing:
a. Highly specialist assessment
b. Highly specialist formulation
c. Direct provision of therapies covered by NICE guidelines and the National Standards for Early Intervention, including in particular CBTp, to individuals, families or groups.
2) Offer advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to non-psychological colleagues and to professional and non-professional staff through:
a. Joint and collaborative working with other members of the team to assist engagement.
b. Joint therapeutic work.
c. Psychological consultation and input to the team and in multi-disciplinary meetings.
d. Structured internal supervision or consultation groups, and reflective practice.
e. Post-incident support and reflections for the team.
3) Demonstrate professional skills to:
a. Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
b. Provide supervision and teaching to mental health service staff.
c. Use their core professional training for some, or all, of the following purposes: research, undertake audit and contribution to policy and service development.
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:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the attached documentation.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, 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 Health and Care Professions Council as a psychologist – UK approved courses only
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Eligibility for Chartered Psychologist status.
Skills/ Abilities
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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
- Competency in neuropsychological assessments.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with psychosis, people with additional disabilities etc).
- 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.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with carers and family members
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient 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.
- Experience of providing CBT for Psychosis or willing to undertake further training in CBTp.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a substantial number of hours clinical supervision in working as a specialist clinical psychologist.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience in Group work.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team setting.
Personal Qualities
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.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Willing to undertake a clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to “hold” the stress of others
- Ability to demonstrate NLFT Trust Values
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Personal experience of mental health problems and/or personal therapy.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- A desire to CPD and keeping abreast of developments in Professional Psychology
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situation and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Ayo Sodeke-Gregson
- Job title
- Barnet Divisional Lead for Psychological Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208702 6898
- Additional information
Alternatively, please contact Joe Stephens (Barnet EIS Team Manager) on [email protected] or 0208 7024230.
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