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Job summary

Main area
Clinical/Counselling Psychology
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0032
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lowther Road Community Mental Health Centre
Town
London
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 Per annum Pro-rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/05/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Band 7

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being 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

The key purpose of this post is to provide structured psychological therapies to adults with diagnoses of personality disorder within a multi-disciplinary service. The post is located within the Personality Disorder Therapies Team which currently consists of three treatment streams: Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). 

 

Main duties of the job

The main clinical duties involve providing assessment, formulation and therapy to service-users at the Camden & Islington Personality Disorder Service and offering advice and consultation to those involved in service-users’ care. This will involve working as a psychological therapist and case manager within a multidisciplinary team delivering individual and group-based interventions and engaging in team and individual supervision aimed at promoting adherence and improving the service we offer. The role will also involve screening referrals, liaising with referrers, and communicating referral decisions to service-users.

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. 

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

The post holder is expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members characterised by trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication.

       ·       To provide professional and clinical supervision to students, trainees and assistant practitioners.

·       To provide educational/ teaching sessions internally and where appropriate to other services and external agencies

  • To maintain clinical records and administrative systems in-line with Trust policy to support good clinical practice.

·       To assess referred service-users, using clinical interview and formal measures as appropriate.

·       To formulate and deliver psychological therapy and management plans for referred service-users using a range of weekly individual and group psychological interventions in a community setting

·       To provide advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of service-users.

·       To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment of service-users.

·       To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to service-users. 

 

 

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology with HCPC registration

Desirable

Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience working in DBT or MBT

Desirable

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience working with personality disorder/complex emotional needs

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 health

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Liam Mc Auliffe
Job title
Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0203 317 6978

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