Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 260-NLFT-0764
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust 260
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North London NHS Foundation Trust - Tavistock Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,133 - £65,261 Per annum inclusive of HCAS / pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinician, Clinical 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/
As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.
We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.
Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.
North London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.
Job overview
North London NHS Foundation Trust - North Camden Community Team (NCCT) supports the mental health and emotional well-being of children and young people (0-18 years) in the culturally diverse borough of Camden. NCCT works to the Thrive model of service delivery and provides consultation, assessment, therapy and training based on evidence based practice.
NCCT is comprised of a rich multi-disciplinary team, which includes Child Psychotherapy, Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychology, CBT, Family Therapy and Psychiatry. The team works closely with partners in the borough, namely: Schools, Local Authority and the voluntary sector.
You will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary team delivering a range of evidence based, and complex interventions and responsible for the formulation and delivery of specialised programmes of care. There will also be opportunities to contribute to service development projects such as patient and public involvement as well as equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives.
The post holder will be the linked CAMHS clinician to a secondary school, up to one day per week. There may also be opportunities to provide regular and on-going consultation support to a number of primary schools.
We welcome applications from trainee psychologists in their final year of training. However, given the high volume of applicants, experience of working in CAMHS is essential.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary team delivering a range of evidence based, and complex interventions and responsible for the formulation and delivery of specialised programmes of care.
The post holder will be the linked CAMHS clinician to a secondary school, up to one day per week. There may also be opportunities to provide regular and on-going consultation support to a number of primary schools.
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.
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
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist) or equivalent qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in therapeutic modalities.
Understanding the role
Essential criteria
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with schools to support student mental health.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of clinical experience working with relevant client population (Child and Adolescent Mental Health 0-18s).
- Clinical experience of assessing mental health and wellbeing needs of clients
- Experience of managing clinical complexity and high-risk patients.
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
Desirable criteria
- Experience working within a Thrive Model of service delivery
- Experience working with neurodivergence, including adapting therapeutic approach as appropriate.
- Experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
- Experience of working with schools to support student mental health.
Interview Assessment
Essential criteria
- Evidence of clinical experience working with relevant client population (Child and Adolescent Mental Health 0-18s).
- Clinical experience of assessing mental health and wellbeing needs of clients
- Experience of managing clinical complexity and high-risk patients
- High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
- Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
- A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
Desirable criteria
- Experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
- Experience working with neurodivergence, including adapting therapeutic approach as appropriate.
- Experience working within a Thrive Model of service delivery
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
- Dean Flanagan
- Job title
- Child, Community and Educational Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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