Job summary
The Camden Core Teams aim to provide a whole system, integrated, and enhanced primary care approach to clients experiencing mental health difficulties. This is an exciting opportunity to work in an expanding team in Camden .
The post-holder will lead on psychological provision within the Kentish Town Core team providing brief assessments, formulations and psychological therapies (individual and group) . This post will offer broad experience across primary care and secondary care settings and so is ideal for those looking to broaden their experience in this area.
The post-holder will also provide consultation, reflective practice, psychological support and training to colleagues from the MDTs and partner agencies as well as supervision and management as required to other psychological staff in the team.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will act as a fully integrated member of the team, leading on highly specialist psychological provision to service users with complex needs, with the aims of supporting recovery, and to optimise independence and social inclusion.
You would work closely with MDT colleagues and other agencies to provide psychologically informed care, through joint working, training, consultation, supervision and reflective practice. You would also have opportunities to work creatively and innovatively and undertake service development, service evaluation, quality improvement (QI) and research.
You would be expected to practice as a senior independent clinician and work autonomously within professional guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, supervising and managing other psychological staff in the team as required.
There is an emphasis on multi-agency collaboration and co-production, and you will have the opportunity to shape the psychology delivery in creative ways to meet the needs of the local population.
You will be supported by the 8b Psychology Lead to ensure the delivery of a high quality, accessible, and inclusive psychological service drawing on a range of psychological approaches to help establish a psychologically informed and trauma informed practice within the team and wider service area.
About us
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a detailed job description and a list of the main responsibilities of the post, please see the job description and person specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a detailed job description and a list of the main responsibilities of the post, please see the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training (or equivalent) in clinical/counselling psychology
- HCPC registration
Desirable
- Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management for adults with complex mental health problems
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Well-developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to form good working relationships with colleagues in a multidisciplinary and supervisory settings.
- 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.
Experience / Knowledge
Essential
- Significant experience of psychological assessment and treatment of adults with complex mental health problems in a range of care settings.
- Substantial post-qualification experience working with adults with mental health difficulties and with behaviour that challenges
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical / counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to adults and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strong interest and commitment to working with people with complex mental health needs
- Strong interest in promoting the Trust values
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training (or equivalent) in clinical/counselling psychology
- HCPC registration
Desirable
- Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management for adults with complex mental health problems
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Well-developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to form good working relationships with colleagues in a multidisciplinary and supervisory settings.
- 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.
Experience / Knowledge
Essential
- Significant experience of psychological assessment and treatment of adults with complex mental health problems in a range of care settings.
- Substantial post-qualification experience working with adults with mental health difficulties and with behaviour that challenges
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical / counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to adults and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strong interest and commitment to working with people with complex mental health needs
- Strong interest in promoting the Trust values
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
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).
