Job summary
We have a new and exciting role for a skilled clinical or counselling psychologist to make a difference in the lives of homeless people facing multiple disadvantage. Islington council have commissioned Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust to offer this project.
This role will involve working alongside another psychologist within existing services offering support to people who are rough sleeping or with histories of rough sleeping and living in supported housing.
The role will be based in the Rough Sleeping Team in Islington council. Some time will be spent in Islington Core Teams within the local Mental Health Trust, as part of supporting the homelessness pathway within the Trust. The post holder will be co-located with these teams and will be managed and supervised within the C&I NHS PICT Service.
The Psychologically Informed Consultation and Training (PICT) service provides amodel of consultation, training and joint working that supports the wider system to work more effectively with people presenting with complex mental health presentations, including personality disorder (not necessarily diagnosed) among other difficulties. The approach we use aims to equip staff working with complexity, with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to understand the person beyond their surface behaviours.
Main duties of the job
This role will involve working alongside existing services offering support to people who are rough sleeping or with histories of rough sleeping and living in supported housing. The post holder will therefore offer PICT services to staff and residents in a variety of settings including hostels, council housing and those who are rough sleeping. Alongside consultation, liaison and training the post holder will be offering some direct interventions to residents where possible.
The post holder will be required to work flexibly, independently, and responsively within a changing environment. Applicants need to be comfortable with outreach and multi-agency joint working and need to have experience in direct working with services users with enduring complex needs, personality disorder, substance use and so on. Applicants need to be confident in providing case consultation to staff from a variety of professional backgrounds and have experience of multi-disciplinary team working. The above are core components of the post.
About us
At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust we have 3 key priorities which are:
- Early and Effective Intervention,
- Helping People to Live Well
- Research and Innovation
The cultural pillars that help us achieve our key priorities are:
- We value each other
- We are empowered
- We keep things simple
- We are connected
By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.
We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to equal opportunities.
Line management and supervision is provided by the PICT Team Lead, and the post holder will also work with operational leads in Islington Rough Sleeping and Housing-related Services. Links will be maintained with the Trust by attending relevant training and operational meetings, as needed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification, which provide detailed descriptions of the roles and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification, which provide detailed descriptions of the roles and requirements.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) or Counselling psychology as accredited by the Health Professions Council, the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
- Current registration with the Health Care Professionals Council as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in an area relevant to the post
Experience
Essential
- Experience of post qualification highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in relevant speciality and/or client group e.g. Addictions/homelessness/complex trauma/psychosis/personality disorder).
- Experience of post qualification highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in relevant speciality and/or client group e.g. Addictions/homelessness/complex trauma/psychosis/personality disorder).
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service users, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of teaching, training, and offering effective consultation and supervision services
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity.
- Experience of the application of consultation and therapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of specialist work with substance misuse, psychosis and/or trauma and complex trauma.
Desirable
- Experience of working in partnership with third sector agencies to deliver services.
- Experience of working with homeless people
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Ability to work flexibly and across organisational boundaries, whilst maintaining your professional identity as an NHS professional.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Interest and ability to contribute to service development
- Ability to work creatively and flexibly
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Ability to reflect on your own practice to inform your work or interventions.
- Post qualification training in at least one or more models of relevant psychological therapy (MBT, CBT/DBT, psychodynamic)
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Well-developed knowledge of the clinical area where the post has designated special responsibilities
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health and Care Professions Council, and British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Knowledge of 'psychologically Informed Environments' and Trauma informed care
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) or Counselling psychology as accredited by the Health Professions Council, the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
- Current registration with the Health Care Professionals Council as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in an area relevant to the post
Experience
Essential
- Experience of post qualification highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in relevant speciality and/or client group e.g. Addictions/homelessness/complex trauma/psychosis/personality disorder).
- Experience of post qualification highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in relevant speciality and/or client group e.g. Addictions/homelessness/complex trauma/psychosis/personality disorder).
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service users, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of teaching, training, and offering effective consultation and supervision services
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity.
- Experience of the application of consultation and therapy in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of specialist work with substance misuse, psychosis and/or trauma and complex trauma.
Desirable
- Experience of working in partnership with third sector agencies to deliver services.
- Experience of working with homeless people
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Ability to work flexibly and across organisational boundaries, whilst maintaining your professional identity as an NHS professional.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Interest and ability to contribute to service development
- Ability to work creatively and flexibly
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Ability to reflect on your own practice to inform your work or interventions.
- Post qualification training in at least one or more models of relevant psychological therapy (MBT, CBT/DBT, psychodynamic)
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Well-developed knowledge of the clinical area where the post has designated special responsibilities
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health and Care Professions Council, and British Psychological Society
Desirable
- Knowledge of 'psychologically Informed Environments' and Trauma informed care
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).
