Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Post will be fixed term for 12-months)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0250
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Long COVID Camden Community Recovery Service, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- LONDON
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 pro-rata, incl. high cost area supplement/ inner London weighting
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist, Long COVID
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) are hosting exciting 12-month fixed term posts that involve designing and leading the provision of specialist long COVID psychology services in boroughs in north central London.
Successful candidates will be qualified clinical/counselling/health psychologists or CBT therapists with a strong academia background, excellent interpersonal skills and experience of working with people with long-term health conditions such as long COVID (post COVID syndrome). Enthusiasm, confidence and the ability to work flexibly and without close direction are essential, alongside project management and experience working in multi-disciplinary teams.
Main duties of the job
Post holders will become part of the friendly and dynamic long COVID professional community in north central London and will have opportunities for continuing professional development, specialist supervision and professional peer support via NLFT.
These roles offer the opportunity to become integral members of post COVID service community teams in north central London boroughs, working alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues to provide a holistic post COVID community service that includes psychology interventions, education and facilitated peer support.
Post holders will provide highly specialist psychological assessment (including screening and triage), intervention and treatment (individual and group) for individuals with ongoing post COVID health difficulties and related psycho-social difficulties. Integrated, holistic services will be delivered in collaboration with multi-disciplinary colleagues, with the aim of supporting individuals to build self-management skills and improve well-being, functioning and adjustment to post COVID syndrome, also known as long COVID. Where needed, post-holders will also provide onward triage for clients referred from post COVID teams.
These posts include taking opportunities to offer training and consultation. They also offer the opportunity to work creatively to design and deliver evidence-based psychology services and pathways for people with long COVID.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) will employ all postholders. Honorary contracts will be initiated with north central London borough long COVID community teams where postholders will provide clinical services - this advert is for a postholder who will work in Camden's long COVID community recovery service, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
NLFT will provide supervision, line management and relevant CPD for the post-holder. NLFT is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
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
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
- We Are Kind
- We Are Respectful
- We Work Together
- We Keep Things Simple
- We Empower
- We Are Proudly Diverse
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. 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 further details about the main responsibilities of this role, please see the full job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or health psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the HCPC
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist, counselling psychologist, or a health psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Additional accreditation with British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) as a CBT therapist
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- 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 form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting / Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of 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 / Interest and ability to contribute to service development
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use electronic patient record systems for record keeping (e.g. System1) / Proficiency in the use of Microsoft packages, including Excel
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Completion of substantial post-doctoral post-qualification and supervised clinical/ health psychology experience working with client groups with physical health needs / Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity / Experience of the application of clinical/ health psychology to physical health problems, including chronic health conditions, and to different cultural contexts
- Experience of biopsychosocial and specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, outpatient and inpatient settings / Experience of working as a psychologist within a physical health multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of contributing to service design and evaluation projects / Experience of health professional teaching and training
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention with people with physical health conditions; high level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies / Knowledge of clinical health psychology literature on behaviour change and its application in the clinical environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of offering psychology input and self-management skills through group intervention / Specialist knowledge of the theoretical background and practice of long covid management / Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health / Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC / Experience of supervising health professionals / Has good understandings of Trust Equal Opportunities Policy, national legislation and local initiatives
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Has a high level of professionalism and demonstrates honesty, integrity and sensitivity / Demonstrates reliability, productivity, and flexibility / Shows enthusiasm, passion and commitment / Shows initiative and can work autonomously when required / Innovative and organised
Desirable criteria
- Has an interest in academic research relevant to client group
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal, and written communication skills / Good IT literacy / Willingness to work flexibly across various sites
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chinea Eziefula
- Job title
- Strategic manager for long COVID
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07929 821 111
- Additional information
If you are interested in this role and have further questions, then please get in touch to discuss further.
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