Job summary
The post is part of an initiative to improve the quality and culture of care provided, and to enhance the therapeutic offer available, to service users who are experiencing street homelessness in NCL boroughs.
The post holder will provide a specialist, flexible psychology service to adult clients who are rough sleeping or street homeless in the North Hub (Barnet, Enfield & Haringey) of North London Foundation Trust (NLFT).
Providing clinical consultation, supervision and training to homelessness services across the North Hubs, this will include direct outreach work, providing psycho-social therapies/interventions to support individuals experiencing street homeless.
To deliver direct clinical work including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
To contribute to contract report, service evaluation, audit and research to support future service commissioning and the development of new models of best practice.
Working in collaboration with other services to deliver care and interventions, based on clinical need, that identify mental and physical health conditions of the service user.
Providing interventions to support people to move off the streets and to facilitate them to sustain a more settled lifestyle. Signposting on to the most appropriate mainstream service and provide ongoing support until accepted and engaged with services.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high level of clinical expertise in supporting the psychological needs of rough sleepers in NLFT areas, South or North boroughs, including those with histories of complex trauma, personality disorder and addiction.
To provide highly specialist assessment and clinical formulation to clients and staff working within the team supporting those clients.
To select and administer specialist psychological assessments and clinical psychometrics. (including specialised psychometric assessment, neuropsychological assessment, self- report measures, as appropriate), structured observations, clinical interviews, and to interpret and integrate this highly complex data.
Application of practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy and knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for them.
Delivery of skills-based interventions or other relevant evidence-based models
To provide psychosocial support to clients who are emotionally distressed either due to the serious consequence of their illness or due to other events in their lives.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure services are fair and equitable and meet the needs of the diverse populations we support, including racial diversity and factors affecting access to mental health care.
To formulate psychological treatment plans which are specific to each client based upon an analysis of complex factors contributing to the presentation, and selectively drawing on appropriate conceptual and theoretical models. This includes supporting other professionals and support staff in their development of such formulations and treatment plans.
To select and deliver evidence-based specialist psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical options.
To work as an autonomous professional within Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions.
To liaise with other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans, including MDT, Outreach, third sector, GP, Referrer, Public Health England and other relevant professionals.
To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individuals, groups families and carers, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To be responsible for drawing up behavioural guidelines for management of difficult behaviours within the hostels, assessment centre and outreach services, together with MDT partners and support staff in the implementation.
To advise other members of the team and partner services on specialist psychological care of clients.
To provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to other members of staff, and to clients to assist in formulation diagnosis and treatment plans when required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure services are fair and equitable and meet the needs of the diverse populations we support, including racial diversity and factors affecting access to mental health care.
To formulate psychological treatment plans which are specific to each client based upon an analysis of complex factors contributing to the presentation, and selectively drawing on appropriate conceptual and theoretical models. This includes supporting other professionals and support staff in their development of such formulations and treatment plans.
To select and deliver evidence-based specialist psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical options.
To work as an autonomous professional within Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions.
To liaise with other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans, including MDT, Outreach, third sector, GP, Referrer, Public Health England and other relevant professionals.
To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individuals, groups families and carers, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To be responsible for drawing up behavioural guidelines for management of difficult behaviours within the hostels, assessment centre and outreach services, together with MDT partners and support staff in the implementation.
To advise other members of the team and partner services on specialist psychological care of clients.
To provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to other members of staff, and to clients to assist in formulation diagnosis and treatment plans when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Further training in a specialized area of psychological practice through formal postdoctoral training (diploma or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and intervention/treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, residential care homes 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
- Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges
- Experience of receiving and providing supervision
- Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of teaching and training
Desirable
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience in older people through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the professional psychology manager
- Experience of using mindfulnessness-based interventions within a clinical setting
- Experience of using Newcastle model to develop interventions for challenging behaviour through carer-centred interventions.
Skills/abilities
Essential
- 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
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of current theoretical models and skills in working with people whose behaviour challenges
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- 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
- 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).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Skills in MBCT
- Skills in group work
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Further training in a specialized area of psychological practice through formal postdoctoral training (diploma or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and intervention/treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, residential care homes 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
- Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges
- Experience of receiving and providing supervision
- Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of teaching and training
Desirable
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience in older people through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the professional psychology manager
- Experience of using mindfulnessness-based interventions within a clinical setting
- Experience of using Newcastle model to develop interventions for challenging behaviour through carer-centred interventions.
Skills/abilities
Essential
- 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
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of current theoretical models and skills in working with people whose behaviour challenges
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- 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
- 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).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Skills in MBCT
- Skills in group work
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
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).
