Job summary
This Band 7 Clinical / Forensic Psychologist role is based within the Enable Substance Misuse Service, delivered by North London NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Waythrough and the London Borough of Enfield. The postholder will work across Vincent House and the Old Magistrates Court, Enfield, within a multidisciplinary forensic and tertiary care setting
Main duties of the job
The role involves providing highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions for individuals with substance misuse and complex needs, including those with forensic histories. The postholder will work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines, contributing to formulation, treatment planning, risk assessment, and care coordination as part of a wider MDT.
In addition to direct clinical work, the psychologist will lead and develop psychological provision within the service, offering consultation, supervision, training, and reflective practice to colleagues. There is a strong expectation of involvement in service development, audit, quality improvement, and research activity, aligned with the Trust's trauma-informed and co-produced care agenda. The role suits a practitioner with a strong interest in trauma-informed, attachment-focused approaches, and offers opportunities for CPD, research, and specialist therapy training (including Schema-Focused Therapy and EMDR.
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
- Provide specialist psychological assessments, integrating complex data from interviews, observations, psychometric measures, and collateral information from families and professionals.
- Formulate and implement psychological treatment and management plans using evidencebased approaches across a range of care settings.
- Deliver a range of psychological interventions to individuals, families, carers, and groups, adapting formulations and interventions as required.
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users managed under psychological care plans.
- Provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to MDT colleagues and other professionals involved in service users care.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management, advising colleagues on psychological aspects of risk.
- Act as Care Coordinator where appropriate, including CPA planning and review.
- Contribute to the design, delivery, and evaluation of psychological services within substance misuse and forensic pathways.
- Provide consultation, training, and reflective practice to MDT staff to support psychologically informed care.
- Support the development of psychological skills within the workforce, including supervision of psychological work undertaken by others where appropriate.
- Contribute to pre and postqualification teaching and training in clinical and/or forensic psychology.
- Use research skills for audit, service evaluation, policy development, and research activity within the service.
- Contribute to the Trusts focus on quality improvement, innovation, and evidencebased practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological assessments, integrating complex data from interviews, observations, psychometric measures, and collateral information from families and professionals.
- Formulate and implement psychological treatment and management plans using evidencebased approaches across a range of care settings.
- Deliver a range of psychological interventions to individuals, families, carers, and groups, adapting formulations and interventions as required.
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users managed under psychological care plans.
- Provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to MDT colleagues and other professionals involved in service users care.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management, advising colleagues on psychological aspects of risk.
- Act as Care Coordinator where appropriate, including CPA planning and review.
- Contribute to the design, delivery, and evaluation of psychological services within substance misuse and forensic pathways.
- Provide consultation, training, and reflective practice to MDT staff to support psychologically informed care.
- Support the development of psychological skills within the workforce, including supervision of psychological work undertaken by others where appropriate.
- Contribute to pre and postqualification teaching and training in clinical and/or forensic psychology.
- Use research skills for audit, service evaluation, policy development, and research activity within the service.
- Contribute to the Trusts focus on quality improvement, innovation, and evidencebased practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential Criteria Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies 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.
Experience
Essential
- 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 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 working with people whose behaviour challenges.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable
- Training in other therapies, such as systemic.
- Experience of neuropsychological assessments, particularly those relevant to working with dementia.
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.
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
- 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
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Skills in group work.
- Skills in the delivery and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments
Personal Qualitites
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
Essential
- Essential Criteria Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies 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.
Experience
Essential
- 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 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 working with people whose behaviour challenges.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable
- Training in other therapies, such as systemic.
- Experience of neuropsychological assessments, particularly those relevant to working with dementia.
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.
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
- 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
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Skills in group work.
- Skills in the delivery and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments
Personal Qualitites
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).
