Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

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Job summary

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to clients of the service team, across all sectors of care; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Main duties of the job

  • To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client'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.
  • To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
  • 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 individual, family or group.
  • To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
  • To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
  • To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
  • To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

About us

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.Enable Substance use team are committed to employee satisfaction and as such this role is being offered with a hybrid model of working, supporting employee wellbeing, and striving to improve productivity and a dynamic working relationship.

Details

Date posted

02 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£56,388 to £62,785 a year Per annum pro rata including Outer London Allowance

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

306-BEH-1575-A

Job locations

Vincent house

2e Nags Head Road

Enfield,

EN3 7FN


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see job description for a detailed description of duties and responsibilities addition to the below:

Teaching, training, and supervision

To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.

To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager) up to two sessions per week [pro rata].

To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.

To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant clinical and/or counselling psychologists.

To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate.

To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see job description for a detailed description of duties and responsibilities addition to the below:

Teaching, training, and supervision

To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.

To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service (as agreed with the professional psychology manager) up to two sessions per week [pro rata].

To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.

To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant clinical and/or counselling psychologists.

To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate.

To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

  • Doctoral level training in clinical Psychology or BPS Chartered Status for counselling psychologists, including specifically models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, as accredited by the BPS
  • Current HPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • Experience of working as a qualified clinical and/or counselling psychologist for over four years with over two years post qualification experience working within. Substance Misuse

Desirable

  • Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients 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

Desirable

  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of the application of clinical or counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Essential

  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

  • Doctoral level training in clinical Psychology or BPS Chartered Status for counselling psychologists, including specifically models of psychopathology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, as accredited by the BPS
  • Current HPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • Experience of working as a qualified clinical and/or counselling psychologist for over four years with over two years post qualification experience working within. Substance Misuse

Desirable

  • Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients 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

Desirable

  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of the application of clinical or counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Essential

  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Vincent house

2e Nags Head Road

Enfield,

EN3 7FN


Employer's website

http://www.beh-mht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Vincent house

2e Nags Head Road

Enfield,

EN3 7FN


Employer's website

http://www.beh-mht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Operations manager

Sabrina Miller-Cummings

saqbrina.miller-cummings@nhs.net

02087025651

Details

Date posted

02 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£56,388 to £62,785 a year Per annum pro rata including Outer London Allowance

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

306-BEH-1575-A

Job locations

Vincent house

2e Nags Head Road

Enfield,

EN3 7FN


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