Job summary
This part-time role (5 hours/week for 4 months) involves co-ordinating a short-term project, funded by the Greater London Authority, with the aim of improving access to psychological therapy for asylum seeking people. This project is a collaboration between the Traumatic Stress Clinic, St Pancras Hospital, NLFT, and Freedom from Torture.
The project involves the development a psycho-social infrastructure package to assist this population with accessing routes into clinical provision. It will take the form of trauma informed and culturally sensitive psycho-education aimed to increase understanding and self management of common mental health problems, with a focus on higher prevalence mental health problems, including PTSD, anxiety and depression. It will include reducing shame and stigma around mental health problems and explain how UK London clinical services work and how to access them.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this role will include:
- working closely with NLFT and FFT colleagues to oversee the project activity planning and completion in a tight timescale
- work with colleagues, interpreters, translators, service-user representatives, and other stakeholders to develop culturally sensitive psycho-educational information
- Run consultation activities in groups in order to develop and test the resources
- develop multi-media resources for sharing information
- work with stakeholders to ensure maximum reach for the materials developed
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
For further details regarding the job description and main responsibilities, please see the Job Description & Person Specification document
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding the job description and main responsibilities, please see the Job Description & Person Specification document
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
Desirable
- Training in multi-media skills
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Skills in communicating psychological information to people from different cultural backgrounds
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Able to manage and oversee a time-limited project
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of using interpreters in psychological work
- Experience of developing multi-media psycho-educational resources
- Experience of working with clients from different cultural backgrounds and/or people seeking asylum
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal skills
- Enthusiasm to improve access to care for marginalised groups
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
Desirable
- Training in multi-media skills
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Skills in communicating psychological information to people from different cultural backgrounds
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Able to manage and oversee a time-limited project
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of using interpreters in psychological work
- Experience of developing multi-media psycho-educational resources
- Experience of working with clients from different cultural backgrounds and/or people seeking asylum
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal skills
- Enthusiasm to improve access to care for marginalised groups
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).
