Job summary
- Main area
- ClAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2147-B
- Employer
- 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Ann's Hospital
- Town
- Haringey
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS HTT Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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
Job overview
Main duties of the job
We need a candidate with a ‘can do’ and flexible attitude so that they can successfully integrate and contribute to our dynamic service. They will have experience of working with children and young people, offering psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions within a community CAMHS service or Tier 4 CAMHS setting.
They will provide a specialist clinical psychology service to clients served by the NCL CAMHS Home Treatment Team, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy to clients and offering advice, consultation and supervision on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. They will need to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post holder will receive supervision in line with BPS guidelines and will have access to the free Psychology CPD programme running in the Trust.
They will be expected to provide clinical supervision to trainee and less experienced psychologists and non-psychologists, as required.
They will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care pathways.
Please contact Dr Shona Lavey-Khan Clinical Psychologist and Lead Psychologist for CAMHS Risk Pathway and or Christopher Ashogba CAHMS HTT Team manager for further information
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.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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
To engage young people and their families with evidence based psychological assessment and treatment, which is bespoke and formulation driven.
To work within a multi-disciplinary team and support team formulation. To contribute to care plans which mitigate risk and improve outcomes for young people.
To engage in risk assessment and risk management plans in conjunction with the team, involving other agencies or services as appropriate to ensure patient safety, in the midst of crisis’ or emergency.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. This may include systemic methodologies, psychological and psychometric tests, 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.
To provide an understanding of best practice and the evidence base in relation to working with this client group.
To engage in consultation, teaching and training as appropriate. To liaise with colleagues across the systems around young people.
To support with team development on an individual and system wide level, and to build relationships with related teams.
To provide supervision for more junior psychology colleagues, as appropriate.
To engage in regular CPD to keep your knowledge up to date, within the trust's CPD offer.
To embody Compassionate Leadership
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Additional post-doctoral training in evidence-based therapies e.g. CBT, DBT, systemic therapy and EMDR.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of young people and adolescents with mental health difficulties and learning difficulties across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Demonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 2 years.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in consultation and collaboratively with Social Care Teams. Experience of working within a specialist Tier 4 CAMHS service Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc). High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
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
- Shona Lavey-Khan
- Job title
- Lead Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8702 4500
- Additional information
Email preferred
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Candi & Tavi
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