Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0090
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oak Lane Children's Centre
- Town
- East Finchley
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist CAMHS Clinical or 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/
Job overview
Are you passionate about working with young people and families? Do you enjoy variety in your work? Would you like to join a warm, thoughtful and inclusive CAMHS team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, developmentally-sensitive, person-centered, trauma-informed and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe mental health difficulties?
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the generic Barnet CAMHS Teams, primarily based at the Oak Lane Clinic, in East Finchley.
Main duties of the job
The Post Holder will:
Offer specialist CAMHS assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting, under the supervision of a senior psychologist.
Contribute to the work of Barnet CAMHS neurodevelopmental service.
Offer supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Psychology students and CBT therapists, and Qualified Clinical Psychologists.
Work alongside MDT colleagues and represent Psychology in MDT meetings, and CAMHS in multi-agency contexts as appropriate.
Work autonomously within professional Psychology guidelines and exercise responsibility for their continuous professional development.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research.
This post is located within the multidisciplinary CAMHS 0–18 service, delivering generic and neurodevelopmental assessments and psychological interventions to families living within the borough of Barnet.
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:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- 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
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Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling 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 practitioner psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Additional post-doctoral training in evidence-based therapies e.g. CBT, systemic therapy and EMDR.
- Additional training in assessment approaches e.g. ADOS, 3DI
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 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 practitioner psychologist over a minimum of 2 years.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in consultation and collaboratively with Social Care Teams.
- Experience of working within a specialist learning disability service.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in the NHS.
Skill/ Knowledge
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 practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
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 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
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- A positive approach to working with children, adolescents and families.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
- 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.
- Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of group work
- Willingness to work flexibly
- Car driver desirable
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
- Ioanna Vrouva
- Job title
- Barnet CAMHS Psychology Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 3300
- Additional information
Please contact by email in the first instance
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