Job summary
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist psychodynamic and psychoanalytic interventions to individuals through individual and group psychotherapy service to adult clients in Haringey. To develop supervise and support the delivery of individual and group psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy by psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of individual and group psychodynamic psychotherapy practice within Core Psychology. To take a Central Core Team leadership role by taking part in and providing psychologically informed input into the team and ensuring psychology representation and psychological thinking in all Central Core Team meetings as required.. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
Main duties of the job
Clinical:
1. To provide assessments for psychological therapy of clients referred to Core Psychology based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological , 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.
2. 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 of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing individual and group interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. 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.
About us
The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth 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.
- 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.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars:
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work together
- We keep things simple
- We empower
- We are proudly diverse
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description
To be noted:
This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.
The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description
To be noted:
This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.
The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Post-graduate level training in group and individual psychodynamic and/ or psychoanalytic psychotherapy accredited by a recognised Training Organisation such as the IGA or TSP.
- Membership of a professional body such as BPC
Desirable
- Prior training in a core profession such as clinical/counselling psychology, nursing, occupational therapy or social work.
- Post-graduate /doctorate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of at least 4 years working as a qualified group and individual psychotherapist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with 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
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment
- Experience of line managing staff in the NHS, leading on service development initiatives and representing psychological thinking at a senior staff level.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of representing group and individual psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation,intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and 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 nonprofessional groups.
- Knowledge of conducting audit studies, QI, research design and methodology relevant to group and inidividual psychotherapy..
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional organisation.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychotherapists.
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of group and individual psychodynamic psychotherapy in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours. Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Personal experience of mental health problems. Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Post-graduate level training in group and individual psychodynamic and/ or psychoanalytic psychotherapy accredited by a recognised Training Organisation such as the IGA or TSP.
- Membership of a professional body such as BPC
Desirable
- Prior training in a core profession such as clinical/counselling psychology, nursing, occupational therapy or social work.
- Post-graduate /doctorate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of at least 4 years working as a qualified group and individual psychotherapist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with 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
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment
- Experience of line managing staff in the NHS, leading on service development initiatives and representing psychological thinking at a senior staff level.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of representing group and individual psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation,intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and 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 nonprofessional groups.
- Knowledge of conducting audit studies, QI, research design and methodology relevant to group and inidividual psychotherapy..
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional organisation.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychotherapists.
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of group and individual psychodynamic psychotherapy in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours. Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Personal experience of mental health problems. Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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.
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.
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).
