Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Associate in Psychology
- Grade
- 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0387
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Camden North West Core Team
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Associate in Psychology
6
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
Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental health difficulties, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each population unit is based on the footprint of a Primary Care Network (PCN), bringing together NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model.
Clinical Associate Psychologists are an innovative new role in mental health services, that are core to this community transformation and offering high quality clinical care to the Camden borough.
We have an opportunity for a qualified Clinical Associate Psychologist (Band 6) to join our service on a full-time basis. They will join a team of
Clinical Associate Psychologists, Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, each linked to their multi-disciplinary team and PCN.
Interested applicants are encouraged to make contact for an informal conversation.
Main duties of the job
The Camden Core Mental Health teams are undergoing a process of transformation to develop and offer psychological interventions, in addition to assessment and consultation for people with complex mental health difficulties. The teams have well established relationships with primary care and the voluntary sector. The service aims to work collaboratively with primary care and other voluntary sector colleagues to help people with complex difficulties in an integrated and holistic way.
The CAP role is central to the team’s psychological provision, with opportunities for 1:1 therapy using a variety of therapeutic models including Structured Clinical Management, offering group interventions, and joint assessment and consultation. There will be opportunities for leadership, research, service development and consultation to the system, which will involve liaising with professionals involved in the in care of the individual. The teams work closely as MDTs, with weekly clinical meetings where complex cases can be thought about and MDT formulations can be developed. There is also opportunity to work jointly with other members of the MDT in cases of particular complexity.
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:
- 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Clinical Associate Psychologist is a key role within both the psychology team and the wider Camden Core Mental Health team. As a relatively new professional role, there are exciting opportunities to shape and develop the service provided.
Key duties include:
• Assessment and formulation for service users referred to Camen Core Mental Health team, under supervision from the wider Psychology team.
• Brief interventions for complex presentations above the threshold for IAPT but below threshold for specialist services.
• Individual interventions – delivering ‘Structured Clinical Management’-informed interventions including problem-solving and skills
focused work.
• Group interventions: psychoeducation and skills workshops.
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team.
• Working with diversity and a range of clinical presentations.
• Opportunities for service development, research projects and audit of interventions.
• Interdisciplinary and inter-agency working (e.g. with recovery college)
These are well supported roles, with the successful candidate receiving high quality supervision, alongside learning and development opportunities.
Please see the attached Job Description for detailed information on the role and main duties / responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Masters Clinical Associate in Psychology qualification
- Degree in psychology or equivalent experience
- Eligibility for registration on the BPS Wider Psychological Workforce register
Desirable criteria
- Further continuing professional development courses relevant to work in mental and/or psychological interventions
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Relevant supervised experience of delivering psychological assessments and interventions in community mental health settings
- Experience of working in a setting with service users presenting with complex and severe and enduring mental health difficulties
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
- Relevant CPD as required by the BPS
- Degree level knowledge of psychological theory and research, including psychological assessment, formulation, intervention, and evaluation
- Masters level knowledge of mental health presentations, within community mental health
- Masters level knowledge of applied research design and methodology
- Knowledge of wider healthcare systems, NHS services and the role of psychological services within the NHS
- Awareness of the potential impact of disadvantage discrimination and adverse events on mental health
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in managing time and workload in the context of multiple competing demands
- Computer literacy and IT skills
- Evidence of good oral and written communication skills based on fluency on the English language
- Skills in conceptualising, analysing, and communicating complex information
- Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to build rapport, communicate empathetically and sensitively in a manner appropriate to the context and recipient
- Awareness of their own competence and expertise and work within those boundaries
- Aware of the expectations of professional and ethical behaviour and act in accordance with these
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Ability to work with people from a wide range of backgrounds
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
- Claudia Ruatti
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Candi & Tavi
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