Job summary
Islington core team-senior psychologist band 8A maternity leave cover, fixed term until January 31st 2027
The North London NHS Foundation Trust is transforming its services to meet the Community Transformation Agenda. The transformation of community mental health services aims to break down the barriers to care, by integrating primary and secondary care services and delivering a model that improves access to holistic approaches, for our service users.
The poster holder will be part of the North Islington Core team providing assessments, formulations, and interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems in the London borough of Islington. The role has been combined to cover two postholders on maternity leave, to provide interventions within the newly formed Service Teams within Islington. The aim of the service is to increase the number of people whose mental health support is appropriately managed in line with the Community Framework for Mental Health using a population health approach.
Main duties of the job
The successful post holder will be adept at offering assessment and interventions to clients with complex and multi-faceted needs, as well as have experience of offering liaison, consultation and advice to staff in the MDT. Experience of providing supervision to junior members will also be essential. The post holder will be joining an MDT and will also be part of a cross-borough psychology system made up of 20 psychologists. The person in post will be supported by senior psychologists to deliver their role.
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.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
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
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
- 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 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
Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. North London Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each population unit is based on the footprint of Primary Care Networks, bringing together NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model.
The poster holder will be part of the North Islington Core team providing assessments, formulations, and interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems in the London borough of Islington. The role has been combined to cover two postholders on maternity leave, to provide interventions within the newly formed Service Teams within Islington. The aim of the service is to increase the number of people whose mental health support is appropriately managed in line with the Community Framework for Mental Health using a population health approach.
The post holder will act as a fully integrated member of the team providing a specialist psychological perspective to support the transformation and development of the service.
The post holder will work with multidisciplinary colleagues to increase psychological and trauma informed practice as well as offer evidence-based interventions. The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment using evidence-based, NICE recommended interventions and will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. The postholder will be expected to oversee and offer supervision to staff working on the complex emotional needs pathway. This part of the post will have a cross borough reach to support the roll out of a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) pilot.
Postholders will be part of newly developed psychology hubs within each borough as well as being integrated within Service Teams. This will support more effective co-ordination and delivery of psychological interventions within the borough.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. North London Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each population unit is based on the footprint of Primary Care Networks, bringing together NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model.
The poster holder will be part of the North Islington Core team providing assessments, formulations, and interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems in the London borough of Islington. The role has been combined to cover two postholders on maternity leave, to provide interventions within the newly formed Service Teams within Islington. The aim of the service is to increase the number of people whose mental health support is appropriately managed in line with the Community Framework for Mental Health using a population health approach.
The post holder will act as a fully integrated member of the team providing a specialist psychological perspective to support the transformation and development of the service.
The post holder will work with multidisciplinary colleagues to increase psychological and trauma informed practice as well as offer evidence-based interventions. The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment using evidence-based, NICE recommended interventions and will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. The postholder will be expected to oversee and offer supervision to staff working on the complex emotional needs pathway. This part of the post will have a cross borough reach to support the roll out of a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) pilot.
Postholders will be part of newly developed psychology hubs within each borough as well as being integrated within Service Teams. This will support more effective co-ordination and delivery of psychological interventions within the borough.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Post-graduate doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment intervention and management for the full range of problems of
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally, and in writing, with service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Skills in delivering evidence-based treatments appropriate for the client group seen in the Service teams or within the specific clinical area where the post has special responsibilities
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice5
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of service users with a wide range of disorders and their comorbidities across a range of mental health settings
- Experience of offering assessment and intervention to people with complex emotional needs, including personality disorders.
- 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 consultation and supervision
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Post-graduate doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment intervention and management for the full range of problems of
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally, and in writing, with service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Skills in delivering evidence-based treatments appropriate for the client group seen in the Service teams or within the specific clinical area where the post has special responsibilities
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice5
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of service users with a wide range of disorders and their comorbidities across a range of mental health settings
- Experience of offering assessment and intervention to people with complex emotional needs, including personality disorders.
- 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 consultation and supervision
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
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).
