Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2377
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bay Tree House
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum Inclu Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
NDS Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of 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 look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Community CYPMHS Service in Enfield Neurodevelopmental Team and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a great location (the post is based at Bay Tree House in Enfield). This is a full-time post, but we are also open to applications for part time/flexible working.
Enfield CAMHS team is a very supportive, friendly and welcoming multi-disciplinary team with a well-established clinical/counselling psychology discipline, family therapy discipline and child psychotherapy discipline. We are looking for a clinician with a broad range of experience, including experience of working with children and families who present with a high level of complexity, as the work will assess and treat a diverse range of difficulties.
The Job Holder will be part of Neurodevelopmental team within Enfield CAMHS providing neurodevelopmental service to clients referred to the autism and ADHD pathway. The Job Holder will be expected to undertake specialist neurodevelopmental assessments. Delivery of neuropsychological assessment and psychological therapy may also be required.
Main duties of the job
. CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
· Provision of specialist assessments with clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, 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, when and where appropriate.
· Formulation and implementation of plans with shared decision making for intervention and/or management of young person’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
· Implementation of a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, including adjusting and refining the formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
· Evaluation and decisions making about intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
- Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
- We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance
- NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As part of job planning, the staff member would be supported to carry out the following roles:
· Line Management of appropriately identified clinical staff.
· Clinical/ professional supervision and appraisal of identified clinical staff.
· Supporting the induction of new staff and trainees.
· Carrying out investigations and presenting findings.
Teaching, training, and supervision
· Receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinician of same discipline, and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
· Develop and deliver specialist training to others in area of clinical expertise.
· Contribute to the teaching of clinicians and trainees, as appropriate.
· Provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
3.2 Responsibility for Administration
· Completion of electronic clinical record keeping in a timely manner in line with the Trust procedural guidelines.
3.3 Responsibility for IT and Digital Systems/Services
· Computer use, maintaining security in line with GDPR for both direct clinical work and other systems, such as the use of Microsoft Office and Trust approved systems. Training will be given where required.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or equivalent);
- Full membership of the ACP and PSA (Professional Standards Authority)
- Further training in specialised area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or eqivalent))
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly in their network
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Interest and/or experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of work in multidisciplinary team/multi-agency 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
- Kellie Cuthill
- Job title
- Clinical Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8702 5100
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Candi & Tavi
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