Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0116
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital, Barnet EN5 3DJ
- Town
- Barnet EN5 3DJ
- Salary
- £67,950 - £78,028 Per annum including HCAS (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principle Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – BH Mental Health Liaison
NHS AfC: Band 8b
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to work with our Mental Health Liaison team in Barnet General Hospital. You will co-lead on the provision of psychology input to clients referred to the team via A&E and the wards. The role will draw on psychology skills across mental and physical health. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary staff group and will have responsibility for Clinical Associate Psychologists and/or Assistant Psychologists. You may also be responsible for qualified psychological therapists undertaking work within or linked to the liaison service and trainee clinical psychologists.
Your primary duties will involve assessment, formulation and designing short-term interventions. You also offer structured and regular consultation to colleagues drawing from psychological processes and theories to help consider a client's presentation. You will also lead on service development and developing short-term psychological interventions that may be offered by non-psychology colleagues and implementing outcome measures.
Main duties of the job
· To oversee the provision of specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the Barnet Mental Health Liaison 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 formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
· To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, 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 highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
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.
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 detailed information on the job description, main responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the attached documentation.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology. Clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Further training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short course together with an evidenced based portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice with an experienced clinical supervisor, at an equivalent level to a post graduate diploma.
- Completion of a clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees
- Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in working with people in crisis or acutely unwell.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and any relevant registration body.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, which can include outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient 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 emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence.
- Substantial experience of working as a psychological therapist in the acute care setting including inpatient care.
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of the supervision of qualified psychology staff.
- Experience of service development.
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice or specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities)
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team.
- Creative in approach as well as reflective about their own practice.
- Demonstrable leadership and management qualities.
- 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 BEH Trust Values
Desirable criteria
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify, provide, and promote appropriate means of support to staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- 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.
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
- Pieter Nel
- Job title
- Principle Clinical Psychologist-Barnet MH Liaison
- Email address
- [email protected]
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