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Job summary

Main area
Older Adults
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0655
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Ann's Hospital
Town
Haringey
Salary
£53,751 - £60,651 Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/02/2026 23:59

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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/ 

As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.

 

 

Job overview

The Psychology Service for Older People in Haringey is looking for a compassionate, creative and versatile Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our team. This is a permanent post of 30 hours a week (0.8wte).

We are based at St Ann's Hospital in Haringey where we are privileged to work with a diverse population of older people. The Psychology team is embedded within Mental Health Services for Older People, working closely with colleagues in the Community Mental Health Team for Older People, Specialist Dementia Service and Haringey Memory Service. We are looking for a committed team worker who values the breadth of perspective and skills in a multi-disciplinary setting. 

The clinical work is varied and rewarding. Our service users typically have complex needs related to ageing and include both functional and organic diagnoses. There is scope to offer a wide range of interventions and we are looking for a team member who is confident to draw on a range of psychological models in order to work with individuals, families and groups. This could include CBT, ACT, CFT, MBCT, psychodynamic and systemic approaches. 

Main duties of the job

All team members offer specialist psychological assessment and a range of interventions for a diverse caseload, which includes moderate-severe mental health needs, organic presentations and  complex co-morbidity.

Psychologists in the team use a variety of assessment tools, including neuropsychological assessment, to assist with diagnosis/formulation and draw on a range of psychological models in order to ensure interventions are effective, accessible and meaningful to our service users. We work with individuals, carers and families, offering individual and group interventions. 

We work closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues within Older People’s services as well as with external care providers including local care homes. The post holder will be expected to attend weekly clinical meetings, work jointly with colleagues and offer consultation, supervision and training for the MDT as required.  

There will be opportunities to develop skills for supervising assistant and trainee psychologists. 

The post-holder will also have opportunities to get involved in service development work, ideally using a Quality Improvement framework to support the implementation of change ideas and ensure we meet the needs of our local population. 

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:  

  1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
  2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
  3. 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

Duties of the role are to provide a qualified clinical/counselling psychology service to older people with severe mental health needs and/or dementia in Haringey. This includes 

  1. The provision of psychological assessment and therapy for individual service users including those with complex mental health conditions, cognitive impairment and co-morbid physical health conditions, their carer’s and their families. 
  1. Consultation, training and support for the wider systems and organisations providing care for our clients including the delivery of staff-centred interventions in residential homes caring for older people with challenging behaviour.
  1. Consultation, training and support for MDT colleagues working within MHSOP (currently Community Mental Health Team for Older People, Specialist Dementia Service and Haringey Memory Service) including joint assessments, joint delivery of interventions and input to team meetings.
  1. To clinically supervise assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists (on meeting the progressional requirements to do so).
  1. Professional skills to:

• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the Service’s policies and procedures

• Use core professional training for some or all of the following purposes as appropriate: research, undertake audit, and contribute to policy and service development.

  1. To contribute to local service developments under the supervision of the professional lead

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Essential Criteria Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies as accredited by the BPS.
  • Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
  • Pre-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 intervention/treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, residential care homes 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.
  • Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges.
  • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable criteria
  • Training in other therapies, such as systemic.
  • Experience of neuropsychological assessments, particularly those relevant to working with dementia.

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.
  • 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.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
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).
  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
  • Skills in group work.
  • Skills in the delivery and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments

Personal Qualitites

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting and establish constructive working relationships across services and care agencies
  • Flexibility and versatility in order to work effectively with the wide range of individual needs encountered in a service for Older People

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Rachel Butterfield
Job title
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8702 6300

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