Job summary
- Main area
- Young Peoples Service
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Band 8a
- Hours
- 26.5 hours per week (Part time)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0348
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Personality Disorder Service
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 Pro rata Inclu HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist Transitions & PDS Islington
Band 8a
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
We are seeking an energetic, innovative, and skilled Psychologist with a passion for working with Young Adults working in North London Foundation NHS Trust’s Young People Service as a clinician within the Transitions and Personality Disorder provision (Islington).
The Trust's Young People & Transitions Service works with young adults (18-25), providing Consultation, Liaison, Assessment and Treatment around Young Adults’ mental health.
The Personality Disorder Service is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of a specialist Community Team, Therapies Team and Liaison Team. The service provides secondary care interventions to people who have difficulties characterised under the umbrella of a 'personality disorder' diagnosis. As a specialist service, the team also support the work of ICNs and the Crisis Care pathway within the Trust, with the aim of supporting staff to work more effectively with adults with complex mental health problems, including personality disorder. This post provides an opportunity to work as part of a supportive, reflective and motivated team, committed to working compassionately with people with difficulties characterised under the umbrella of a severe 'personality disorder' diagnosis, specialising in young adults.
Main duties of the job
JOB SUMMARY
The post-holder will be responsible for championing the needs of young people (18 to 25) in the Personality Disorder Service. The post-holder will influence the culture and practice of the service, providing assessment and treatment interventions for young people, facilitating the smooth transition of young people from CAMHS to adult services, and offering supervision, advice and consultation on young people’s psychological care to the PD community and specialist treatment teams, to the new Core Teams, to referrers, to other non-psychological colleagues and other non-professional carers.
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:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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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
Key responsibilities
· To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the
assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young people.
· To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to young people.
· To provide psychological assessments of young people using using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
· To conduct joint assessments of young people with the Core Teams when there are queries around personality related difficulties.
· To develop a PICT model (Psychologically Informed Consultation and Training) for primary care management of young people presenting with PD
· To develop flexible practices within the PD service to facilitate the engagement of young people (18-25) with the service.
· To work closely with local CAMHS services to facilitate smooth transition of young people from CAMHS to adult services.
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This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and current registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist OR qualification in another mental health profession (e.g. mental health nursing, occupational therapy) and qualification in cognitive behaviour therapy and working towards eligibility for registration with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
Desirable criteria
- Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post
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 of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity Experience of working with young people with severe and enduring mental health problems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with young people who struggle to engage with mainstream services Significant post-qualification experience working with the client group of the post or a related client group Experience in the supervision of appropriate evidence based psychological interventions Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision Experience in psychological assessment and therapy in different cultural contexts
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 Jonathan Wells
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Young People & Transitions
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07952285268
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Candi & Tavi
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