Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic psychologist interested in working within a memory service to join our supportive network of psychologists working with older peoples mental health services in Barnet and across the trust. The role is fully integrated into the multidisciplinary Barnet Memory Service and has the support of an Assistant Psychologist.
Barnet is a diverse place to work. It is the largest London borough with over 380,000 residents from varying backgrounds. The population is ethnically diverse and there is a high percentage of older people. Parts of it are in the Green Belt; it includes a number of nature reserves, and it borders rural Hertfordshire, yet it has direct underground and train links into the centre of London.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will have an interest in neuropsychology and dementia, as an important aspect is assisting with differential diagnosis and providing post-diagnostic intervention. There will also be opportunities to develop leadership skills through quality improvement project work and to take on some supervision and teaching responsibilities.
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 networks
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
The main duties of the job are to provide a service user focused and evidence based high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Barnet Memory Service (BMS), which includes the following.
The provision of specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment for individual service users including those with complex mental health conditions, cognitive impairment and co-morbid physical health conditions, their carers and their families.
Providing specialist psychology input into BMS services, including aiding diagnostic assessment and the development and clinical supervision of delivering time limited post-diagnostic psychological interventions.
Consultation, training and support for MDT colleagues working within Barnet Memory Service, joint delivery of interventions and input to team meetings.
Consultation, training and support for the wider systems and organisations providing care for service-users.
Supervision of clinical psychology colleagues including trainees and psychology assistant/s graduates as appropriate
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties of the job are to provide a service user focused and evidence based high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Barnet Memory Service (BMS), which includes the following.
The provision of specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment for individual service users including those with complex mental health conditions, cognitive impairment and co-morbid physical health conditions, their carers and their families.
Providing specialist psychology input into BMS services, including aiding diagnostic assessment and the development and clinical supervision of delivering time limited post-diagnostic psychological interventions.
Consultation, training and support for MDT colleagues working within Barnet Memory Service, joint delivery of interventions and input to team meetings.
Consultation, training and support for the wider systems and organisations providing care for service-users.
Supervision of clinical psychology colleagues including trainees and psychology assistant/s graduates as appropriate
Person Specification
Qualifications/Reistrations
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, 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 Health & Care Professions Council
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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.
- Skills in the delivery and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
Desirable
- Skills in group work.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- 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 neuropsychological assessments, particularly those relevant to working with dementia
- Experience of providing supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable
- 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 people whose behaviour challenges.
- Experience of teaching/training
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting and establish constructive working relationships across services and care agencies
- Flexibility and versatility in order to work effectively with the wide range of individual needs encountered in a service for Older People
Person Specification
Qualifications/Reistrations
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, 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 Health & Care Professions Council
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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.
- Skills in the delivery and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
Desirable
- Skills in group work.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- 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 neuropsychological assessments, particularly those relevant to working with dementia
- Experience of providing supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable
- 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 people whose behaviour challenges.
- Experience of teaching/training
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting and establish constructive working relationships across services and care agencies
- Flexibility and versatility in order to work effectively with the wide range of individual needs encountered in a service for Older People
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).
