Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0355
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lucas House
- Town
- Edmonton
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum Including Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
Do you have the skills and interest in helping people aged between 18-64 presenting with their first episode of psychosis? We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist with experience of providing CBT based interventions for psychosis in adult mental health settings.
You will join a friendly, supportive, highly skilled and committed multidisciplinary team, which delivers evidence-based interventions. As a team psychologist you will be able to work innovatively alongside other team members in providing comprehensive psychological assessments and interventions to adults with mental health problems and their families in the community.
The role also involves providing supervision, formulation, consultation and supporting MDT colleagues to develop their competencies in the application of psychological ways of working with service users and their carers.
The Trust recognises the need for the development of psychological therapies across the workforce and has developed a Trust-wide training program. Psychological therapists have excellent access to further training and Continuing Professional Development opportunities, both within and outside the Trust. This includes opportunities to complete CBTp training and supervision skills training where indicated and appropriate.
Main duties of the job
As a team psychologist you will be able to work innovatively alongside other team members in providing comprehensive psychological assessments and interventions to adults with mental health problems and their families in the community. The role also involves providing supervision, formulation, consultation and supporting MDT colleagues to develop their competencies in the application of psychological ways of working with service users and their carers.
You will be expected to take a role in service evaluation and audit and to contribute to service development, including supporting co-production projects and initiatives. We are keen to support creativity and holistic approaches to mental health care within the team and value innovative ways of working.
Enthusiastic and adaptable, you need to enjoy working both independently and collaboratively as part of a diverse team. You will need to have knowledge and skills in providing CBT for psychosis interventions to service users and their families and have an interest in providing teaching and supervision to your MDT colleagues
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.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
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
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full description of main responsibilities.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
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 British Psychological Society (BPS).
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Post accreditation training in additional specialised areas of psychological practice e.g. CBT, CBTp or other.
- Pre or post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 psychological interventions across more than one modality; individual, couple, family, group or working through carers
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing CBT for Psychosis and/or Family Interventions
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
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
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
- Juliet Osuji
- Job title
- EIS Enfield Team manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087023100
- Additional information
Dr Sheila Ufot
Senior Counselling Psychologist
Enfield EIS.
02087026998
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