Job summary
*This post is primarily advertised as a secondment in NLFT - however the type of contract may be expanded based on applications received and length of time may be extendable subject to further negotiations*
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Complex PTSD Pathway, which sits in the wider Complex Emotional Needs Pathway in Haringey. We are looking for a qualified clinician who can offer evidence-based group and individual trauma focused psychological interventions.
The cPTSD Pathway offers specialised trauma focused therapy for adults presenting with complex PTSD. We offer a phase-based treatment pathway whereby service users are first invited to a psychoeducation and symptom management group and later to individual trauma-focussed therapy. As a service we offer EMDR and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), integrating Compassion Focused/3rd wave ideas and ways of working.
All clinicians receive individual supervision, as well as regular group supervision for specialist trauma-focused work. We will support applications for funding for further training necessary for the role, e.g. EMDR training. Prior experience of working with clients with PTSD is desirable, but we also welcome applications from clinicians with an enthusiasm to learn trauma-focused ways of working who have relevant experience with other client groups.
The cPTSD pathway is a small and friendly team and we strive to support one another to provide high quality care for our service users.
Main duties of the job
The duties of the post holder will include:
- The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high-quality trauma-informed and trauma-focused assessments and therapies. This will involve undertaking psychological assessments; psychoeducation and stabilization groups and evidence based trauma-focused therapies.
- Working closely alongside other CPTSD colleagues; cofacilitating groups, contributing to team meetings and formulations, and offering informal peer support and supervision where appropriate.
- As a team member both of the CPTSD Pathway and the wider Core team, the post-holder will be expected to work collaboratively with our wider colleagues, adding trauma-informed perspectives to team formulations and meetings.
- The post-holder will supervise other junior staff as appropriate - this may include doctoral trainees and assistant psychologists.
- The post-holder will provide training, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team, who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- The post-holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within the service/team.
About us
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- 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 allowance and NHS pension scheme
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
The duties of the post holder will include:
- The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality trauma-informed and trauma-focused assessments and therapies. This will involve undertaking psychological assessments; psychoeducation and stabilisation groups and evidence based trauma-focused therapies.
- Working closely alongside other cPTSD pathway colleagues; cofacilitating groups, contributing to team meetings, joining team formulation meetings and offering informal peer support and supervision where appropriate.
- The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures.
- The post-holder will supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by doctoral trainees, assistant psychologists and other junior staff.
- The post-holder will provide training, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team, who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- The post-holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within the service/team.
- The post-holder will utilise skills for research and audit and contribute to policy and service development, in relation to the cPTSD Pathway and in collaboration with the wider team
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
The duties of the post holder will include:
- The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality trauma-informed and trauma-focused assessments and therapies. This will involve undertaking psychological assessments; psychoeducation and stabilisation groups and evidence based trauma-focused therapies.
- Working closely alongside other cPTSD pathway colleagues; cofacilitating groups, contributing to team meetings, joining team formulation meetings and offering informal peer support and supervision where appropriate.
- The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures.
- The post-holder will supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by doctoral trainees, assistant psychologists and other junior staff.
- The post-holder will provide training, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team, who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- The post-holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within the service/team.
- The post-holder will utilise skills for research and audit and contribute to policy and service development, in relation to the cPTSD Pathway and in collaboration with the wider team
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS OR Comparable experience and relevant therapeutic training with accredited qualification from a recognised body.
- Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist OR Registration with another appropriate membership body, depending on core profession
Desirable
- Training and experience in Trauma focused model of therapy (particularly, EMDR and Narrative Exposure Therapy)
- Speaks of wanting to work in trauma as a deliberate career choice, conveys passion and enthusiasm for the work in their personal statement and evidences in their job choices/thesis etc.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community and inpatient settings and experience of working with complex PTSD.
- 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, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of offering trauma focussed therapy with patients with complex PTSD presentations particularly those with adult experience of torture or domestic violence and/or with childhood histories of abuse or neglect
- Experience of working with refugee and asylum seekers and of providing therapy with the aid of interpreters
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- 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.
- 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
- Able to speak a second language E.g. Turkish speaking.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult groups who may find therapies more difficult to access (e.g. dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, people with neurodiversity etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex 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 in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Willing to undertake clinical supervision training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
Desirable
- Personal experience of mental health problems and/or experience of receiving personal therapy.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical or Counselling Psychology including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS OR Comparable experience and relevant therapeutic training with accredited qualification from a recognised body.
- Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist OR Registration with another appropriate membership body, depending on core profession
Desirable
- Training and experience in Trauma focused model of therapy (particularly, EMDR and Narrative Exposure Therapy)
- Speaks of wanting to work in trauma as a deliberate career choice, conveys passion and enthusiasm for the work in their personal statement and evidences in their job choices/thesis etc.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community and inpatient settings and experience of working with complex PTSD.
- 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, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of offering trauma focussed therapy with patients with complex PTSD presentations particularly those with adult experience of torture or domestic violence and/or with childhood histories of abuse or neglect
- Experience of working with refugee and asylum seekers and of providing therapy with the aid of interpreters
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- 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.
- 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
- Able to speak a second language E.g. Turkish speaking.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult groups who may find therapies more difficult to access (e.g. dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, people with neurodiversity etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex 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 in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Willing to undertake clinical supervision training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
Desirable
- Personal experience of mental health problems and/or experience of receiving personal therapy.
- 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).
