Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Learning Disabilities
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 0.8 session per week (9am-5pm)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0224
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Camden Learning Disabilities Service
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 Per annum Incl HCAS (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/07/2025 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
This is an exciting opportunity for a clinical/ counselling psychologist with experience of working with adults with Learning Disabilities at Camden Learning Disabilities Service (CLDS).
CLDS is a forward thinking, fully integrated health and social care team whose dedicated staff and service providers have previously been award the prestigious accolades of LD Team of the Year (RCP) and Team of the Year (Social Worker of the Year Awards). We are passionate about delivering high quality psychological support to adults with learning disabilities and their networks. We are a well resourced service and pride ourselves in high levels of multidisciplinary working and close collaboration as a multiagency service, with Psychiatry, Psychology, Nursing, OT, SLT, and PT clinical teams working alongside our Social Work team. CLDS also provides health services to both Camden and non-Camden learners within Alexandra Centre for Further Education, a college facility for young people aged 16 to 25 who present with severe learning disabilities.
Our MDT has reputation for being friendly, inclusive and sociable. We have regular celebrations within the office to mark a range of religious festivals, bring and share lunches and after work socials. We are located beside King's Cross and St Pancras stations and enjoy the benefits of a modern building with many of our day provisions and residential services being a short walk away. We further benefit from an onsite IT department with walk-in clinics.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work with the clinical service provision within the vibrant and well-established psychology team (consisting of clinical and counselling psychologists, trainee psychologists, an assistant psychologist and honorary undergraduate psychology placement students).
The Psychology team provides skilled psychological assessments, including autism diagnostics and complex neuropsychology assessments, and psychosocial interventions including CBT, systemic, PBS and EMDR to adults with learning disabilities in Camden.
The successful candidate will also design, support and implement service development projects. The service works closely with provider organisations and the candidate will be providing assessments and intervention to young adult learners at our Alexandra Centre for Further Education site.
The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to work with UCL, RHUL and UEL clinical training courses, and will be able to access the CPD programme provided by the trust's learning and development department, including systemic practice (Foundation Level 1), advanced CBT skills, and other specialist CPD opportunities that arise.
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.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To provide assessments for individuals referred to the Psychological Therapies team using appropriate methods, including interviews, observations, and formal assessment measures (including psychometric assessments)
· To formulate and provide psychological interventions for service-users, their families and care networks referred to the Psychological Therapies team, including those with multiple and complex presentations, mental health problems, Autism, ADHD, dementia and/or behaviours that challenge. This includes using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service (e.g. Positive Behaviour Support, CBT, behavioural approaches, systemic/family approaches, psychodynamic approaches, EMDR, etc.)
· To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to others and to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of service-users with complex health needs and/or high-risk presentations
· To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service-users
· To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to people with GLD
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist (or registration at the time the post commences)
Desirable criteria
- Completion of pre- or post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post (e.g. Positive Behaviour Support)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings
- Experience working with adults with Global Learning Disabilities, or with a related client group (with clear transferrable skills)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising others
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric assessments), intervention and management for the full range of problems presented by adults with Global Learning Disabilities, including behaviours that challenge
- Well-developed knowledge in the areas of Global Learning Disabilities, mental health, Autism Spectrum Disorders, behaviours that challenge (including Positive Behaviour Support) and dementia
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting
Desirable criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
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
- Dr Anwar Kabir
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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