Crynodeb o'r swydd
- Prif leoliad
- Child and Adolescent Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Gradd
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Parhaol: Permanent
- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 455-NLFT-0393-A
- Cyflogwr
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- Oak Lane Childrens Centre
- Tref
- London
- Cyflog
- £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 30/09/2025 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr
Child and Adolescent 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/
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Are you passionate about working with young people and families? Are you looking for a Psychology role in CAMHS? Would you like to join a warm, thoughtful and inclusive 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 emotional difficulties?
If so, an opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the generic Barnet CAMHS Teams, at the Oak Lane clinic in East Finchley.
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.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
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.
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.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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.
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.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
· To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
· To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
· To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
· To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
· To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
· To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
Manyleb y person
Education
Meini prawf hanfodol
- 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 clinical or counselling psychologist.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Additional therapeutic training ADOS trained
Experience and Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- 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.
Meini prawf dymunol
- 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 clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts. Experience of working in the NHS.
Skills and Abilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- 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.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Bathodynnau ardystio / achredu cyflogwyr
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Ioanna Vrouva
- Teitl y swydd
- Barnet CAMHS Co-Psychology Lead (East)
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 02087023300
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
You can also contact
Dr Joanna Mitchell [email protected]
Rhestr swyddi gyda North London NHS Foundation Trust yn Proffesiynau Perthynol i Iechyd neu bob sector