Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Per Annum)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0074
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bay Tree House
- Town
- Christchurch Close
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 Per Annum Inclusive of Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Psychologist
NHS AfC: 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/
Job overview
The core competencies will be evaluated at the start of the employment; the line manager/supervisor will identify and support learning opportunities of the post holder. Each competency will be viewed as a development goal. Assessment will be done through observation of clinical practice, feedback from members of the MDT, patients and families, discussion, and constructive feedback. The postholder have to be able to provide evidence of how they achieved each domain. Once all core competencies are achieved to their development goal the postholder may be moved from band 7 to band 8a. Further details of this process will be shared with the postholder at the start of their employment and via the Core Competencies document.
Main duties of the job
· Provision of specialist assessments with clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, 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, when and where appropriate.
· Formulation and implementation of plans with shared decision making for intervention and/or management of young person’s mental health problems, 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.
· Implementation of a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, including adjusting and refining the formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
· Evaluation and decisions making about intervention 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
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
This role is for a newly qualified or an experienced psychologist with interest or specialist knowledge around children and young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities and neuro-developmental conditions and needs which require specialist community CAMHS services.
Whilst providing specialist external consultation; assessment and intervention, the post holder as part of the Multidisciplinary team provides clinical knowledge and a valuable resource.
Once the postholder reaches their senior position as band 8a they will work with other leadership in the team, supporting the development of the service, with the service user at the centre of the care we provide.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or equivalent)
- Full membership of the ACP and PSA (Professional Standards Authority) or Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Further training in a specialized area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in additional specialised areas of relevant practice, e.g. Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
- ADOS 2 training
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, 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.
- 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.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families.
- Knowledge and ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence-based interventions.
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
- Ability to manage own caseload and time.
- Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems.
Desirable criteria
- Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- RIO) and database/statistical applications.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Interest and/or experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of both group and individual work.
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring.
- Experience of work in multidisciplinary team/multi-agency contexts.
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in carrying out ADOS-2 assessments for ASD and/or using other reliable diagnostic tools.
- Experience in enabling service user participation.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of specialist assessment and intervention of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of providing evidence based psychological interventions e.g. PBS.
- Experience in carrying out ADOS-2 assessments for ASD and/or using other reliable diagnostic tools.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- 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.
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively.
- 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 criteria
- Awareness and understanding of emotional distress/mental health problems drawn from personal experience.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- 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.
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
- Volker Agyekum
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087025100
- Additional information
For more information about role please contact [email protected]
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