Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: N/A
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2055
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Ann's Road, Tottenham, London, N15 3TH
- Town
- Haringey
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 N/A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS HTT Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
Main duties of the job
To undertake initial assessments as appropriate, including 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. These will 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 make skilled evaluations to employ research based models in order to formulate and implement psychological treatment with individuals, couples, families and carers in the context of the professional and wider social systems.
· To implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for Individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, informed by different exploratory models. And maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
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.
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 evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both
· theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical
· and developmental processes that have shaped the individuals, family
· or group.
·
· To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment
· and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based
· care plans, including communication with the referral agent and others involved in
· care.
· To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other
· professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment
· plan.
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to
· provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment
· and risk management.
· To communicate and give feedback in a skilled and sensitive manner, information
· concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their
· care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni-and multidisciplinary care.
· To provide advice, guidance and consultation to peer and junior professionals
· within the service, both individually, and by attendance at team referral and review
· meetings.
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 evidencebased therapies e.g. CBT, DBT, systemic therapy and EMDR. Additional training in assessment approaches e.g. ADOS, 3DI
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 of working in the NHS.
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 Shona Lavey-Khan
- Job title
- Lead Psychologist for CAMHS Risk Pathway
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8702 4500
- Additional information
Christopher Ashogba
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 07587962290, 02087024221
Team Manager
NCL Home Treatment Team CAMHS
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