Job summary
We are delighted to be advertising the role of Lead Psychologist in the Islington Learning Disabilities Partnership (ILDP). This role will lead a team of psychological professions and providePsychology leadership and expertise within the integrated health and social care team. They will lead in ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients, relatives, carers and all appropriate specialist services for people with learning disabilities in Islington.
The post is provided with professional supervision by the Associate Director for Psychological Professions within Older Adults, Rehab and Learning Disabilities (LD) Care Group in NLFT and managed by the Assistant Director for Islington Learning Disabilities Partnership (ILDP). Specialist LD clinical supervision is currently provided externally.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of this post will include:
To lead in delivering a psychological assessment and intervention/therapy service provided by psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. To identify and develop training/awareness workshops which assists the delivery and improvement of high-quality services for people with learning disabilities, their relatives, and carers.
To provide clinical supervision and clinical leadership of the psychology team members in delivering a psychological consultation, assessment and intervention service, and support to colleagues who provide psychologically based care and treatment, within ILDP.
To provide consultation and psychology expertise to other disciplines with the integrated Learning Disabilities Service. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise local responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. Dissemination of broader clinical governance issues will be a significant part of the role as the psychology representative within ILDP.
To liaise and collaborate with other consultant and lead psychologists in NLFT Learning Disabilities services.
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
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification document for detailed responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification document for detailed responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- 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 (HCPC) as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
- Completion of pre- or post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post (e.g. Positive Behaviour Support, ADOS-2)
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric assessments), intervention and management for the full range of problems presented by adults with Global Learning Disabilities, including behaviours that challenge
- Skills in communicating effectively (orally and in writing) with service-users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside of the NHS
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Interest and ability to consider the role and responsibilities of psychologists in embedding non-discriminatory practice
Desirable
- Highly developed 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)
- Interest and ability to contribute to service development
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a senior clinical/counselling psychologist
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Knowledge in the areas of Global Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Autism, ADHD, behaviours that challenge (including Positive Behaviour Support) and dementia
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a qualified clinician leading the care and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision of qualified psychologists
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care/services
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Desirable
- Experience of supervising others outside of the psychological professions
- Experience of multi professional management of teams or services within the designated speciality
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting
- Ability to work collaboratively with senior managers and staff in service delivery and developments
- Ability to demonstrate Trust Values
- Good conflict resolution skills
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely behaviours of concern
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework, government and national professional policy
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and behaviours of concern
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- 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 (HCPC) as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
- Completion of pre- or post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post (e.g. Positive Behaviour Support, ADOS-2)
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric assessments), intervention and management for the full range of problems presented by adults with Global Learning Disabilities, including behaviours that challenge
- Skills in communicating effectively (orally and in writing) with service-users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside of the NHS
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Interest and ability to consider the role and responsibilities of psychologists in embedding non-discriminatory practice
Desirable
- Highly developed 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)
- Interest and ability to contribute to service development
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a senior clinical/counselling psychologist
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Knowledge in the areas of Global Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Autism, ADHD, behaviours that challenge (including Positive Behaviour Support) and dementia
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a qualified clinician leading the care and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision of qualified psychologists
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health Care Professions Council and British Psychological Society
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care/services
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Desirable
- Experience of supervising others outside of the psychological professions
- Experience of multi professional management of teams or services within the designated speciality
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting
- Ability to work collaboratively with senior managers and staff in service delivery and developments
- Ability to demonstrate Trust Values
- Good conflict resolution skills
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely behaviours of concern
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework, government and national professional policy
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and behaviours of concern
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
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).
