Job summary
PLEASE APPLY FOR THIS ROLE USING THE OPEN DOOR APPLICATION FORM ATTACHED TO THIS ADVERT (to be downloaded and emailed to recruitment@opendooronline.org) OR CONTACT US FOR A FULL APPLICATION PACK.
We are excited to be recruiting a part-time role for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to provide psychology and psychotherapy in our dynamic voluntary sector adolescent service.
Open Door's mission is to make talking therapy as accessible as possible to all young people in Haringey who need it.
Provisional interview dates: 10th and11th June
- 0.4FTE post, with some flexibility around working hours and days of the week.
- This is a 12-month fixed-term contract (with the hope of extension)
- We are looking for an energetic and flexible clinician to undertake a range of clinical work with 12-24 year olds, parents/carers.
- This includes brief, medium and longer-term psychotherapy and CBT with adolescents and young adults.
- Parent work (may include training in and delivering Open Doors parent work model)
- Applicants must have experience of working with adolescents, parents and carers within a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service and be registered with the HCPC as Counselling or Clinical Psychologist
- We welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of all kinds, including global majority and/or neurodivergent psychologists.
Main duties of the job
To provide an efficient,
effective and highly specialist adolescent assessment and treatment service for
young people, parents or carers. Treatment will be provided to some adolescents
with severe, complex and persistent mental health problems.
To make complex clinical
judgements and decisions, with the assistance of colleagues and managers, about
risk factors and to ensure that links are established with other agencies,
particularly those in the statutory sector, to reduce risks and share responsibility
within mental health networks. To participate in multi-agency meetings
including Child Protection Conferences, Child in Need, Team around the Family,
EHCP meetings and annual reviews etc.
To participate in and contribute
to the development of Open Doors programmes of audit, evaluation and research
and support service users to contribute and participate and to ensure CYP-IAPT
compliance.
To work autonomously within the
overall policy and governance framework set out by Open Door.
To provide support for colleagues
in team meetings and in difficult or emergency situations.
To provide, when opportunities
arise, consultation, training and advice for staff working in other specialist
settings.
About us
Open Door is an NCL ICB commissioned voluntary sector
service based in Haringey, North London, providing a range of therapeutic
services for young people aged 12-24 and parents/carers. We form part of the
Haringey CAMHS pathway for 12-18-year-olds and are a highly regarded clinical
service. Open Door recently received national recognition for our impact, as a
2024 finalist for Health Service Journal (HSJ) Award for Reducing Inequality
and Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People.
Open Door offers talking therapy to adolescents and young
adults on a brief, medium and longer-term basis. The team comprises Child &
Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapists, Psychodynamic Psychotherapists and
Counselling Psychologists who offer psychotherapy, CBT, drama therapy,
therapeutic football groups and EMDR. The clinical team currently comprises 27
qualified and trainee therapists, many of whom are NHS trained and all of whom
are professionally accredited. We are a highly skilled team and many of our
clinicians also teach on professional trainings.
Open Door works from bases in Crouch End and Tottenham, and
provides services in local secondary schools and the Haringey Autism Hub. Most
of our work is delivered in person as this is what most young people tell us
they want. Demand for the service is high.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. More than half of our young people are from global
majority communities, and approximately 1 in 4 are neurodivergent.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details, please see full job description pdf available to download with this job advertisement
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details, please see full job description pdf available to download with this job advertisement
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Counselling or Clinical psychology
- Registered with the HCPC as Counselling or Clinical Psychologist
- Eligibility for Chartered Status with the BPS
Desirable
- Additional post-doctorate advanced training, for example in CBT, EMDR, IPT, DBT
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical, technical and evidence-based clinical knowledge and experience.
- Ability to communicate effectively in highly emotive situations: overcoming barriers to understanding and analysing complex and conflicting opinion/emotions.
- Ability to organise and schedule a range of complex multi-professional activities such as: consultations with clinical teams, educational and training courses, group supervision sessions.
- Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
- Experience in the autonomous management of personal work patterns and caseload. This includes experience in scheduling and maintaining a pattern of complex clinical and non-clinical work.
- Good literary and report writing skills.
- Time management skills.
- Administrative Skills.
- Good Liaison Skills.
- Excellent general communication skills
- An awareness of the limitations and parameters of the treatment potential of psychotherapy.
Desirable
- Experience of research, service development and audit.
- Practical Computer Skills.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a psychologist within a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service, including substantial experience with relevant client group.
- Experience in the process of assessment, intervention and management of complex risk and clinical need.
- Experience of working with diversity including clients from different cultural, ethnic, gender, sexuality, socio-economic, ability, religious backgrounds.
- Experience of time limited and longer-term clinical work.
- Experience of working with parents and carers.
- Experience in the use of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
- Experience in liaison and multi-agency working.
Desirable
- Experience of liaison with other therapeutic modalities towards improving interdisciplinary understanding and networking to improve patient options for treatment.
- Experience of delivering group based therapy or psycho-education.
- Experience of developing service user participation.
- Interest and/or experience in service development.
- Knowledge of/ interest in understanding barriers faced, and improving access for young people, to psychotherapy and mental health services.
- Experience of/ interest in coproduction.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Awareness of the appropriate ethical, professional and legal responsibilities of their profession.
- Ability to work as an autonomous clinical specialist, whilst also maintaining close links with other clinicians and colleagues.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Willingness to work from a number of locations and using different platforms (eg: phone, video, text).
- Commitment to inclusion.
- Commitment to safeguarding.
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Adaptable
- Good interpersonal skills
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Mental effort - capacity for frequent, intense mental concentration
- Emotional effort - capacity to frequently work with highly emotional circumstances and levels of distress
- Working conditions - capacity to work in a mental health setting with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions such as verbal aggression.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Counselling or Clinical psychology
- Registered with the HCPC as Counselling or Clinical Psychologist
- Eligibility for Chartered Status with the BPS
Desirable
- Additional post-doctorate advanced training, for example in CBT, EMDR, IPT, DBT
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical, technical and evidence-based clinical knowledge and experience.
- Ability to communicate effectively in highly emotive situations: overcoming barriers to understanding and analysing complex and conflicting opinion/emotions.
- Ability to organise and schedule a range of complex multi-professional activities such as: consultations with clinical teams, educational and training courses, group supervision sessions.
- Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
- Experience in the autonomous management of personal work patterns and caseload. This includes experience in scheduling and maintaining a pattern of complex clinical and non-clinical work.
- Good literary and report writing skills.
- Time management skills.
- Administrative Skills.
- Good Liaison Skills.
- Excellent general communication skills
- An awareness of the limitations and parameters of the treatment potential of psychotherapy.
Desirable
- Experience of research, service development and audit.
- Practical Computer Skills.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a psychologist within a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service, including substantial experience with relevant client group.
- Experience in the process of assessment, intervention and management of complex risk and clinical need.
- Experience of working with diversity including clients from different cultural, ethnic, gender, sexuality, socio-economic, ability, religious backgrounds.
- Experience of time limited and longer-term clinical work.
- Experience of working with parents and carers.
- Experience in the use of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
- Experience in liaison and multi-agency working.
Desirable
- Experience of liaison with other therapeutic modalities towards improving interdisciplinary understanding and networking to improve patient options for treatment.
- Experience of delivering group based therapy or psycho-education.
- Experience of developing service user participation.
- Interest and/or experience in service development.
- Knowledge of/ interest in understanding barriers faced, and improving access for young people, to psychotherapy and mental health services.
- Experience of/ interest in coproduction.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Awareness of the appropriate ethical, professional and legal responsibilities of their profession.
- Ability to work as an autonomous clinical specialist, whilst also maintaining close links with other clinicians and colleagues.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Willingness to work from a number of locations and using different platforms (eg: phone, video, text).
- Commitment to inclusion.
- Commitment to safeguarding.
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Adaptable
- Good interpersonal skills
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Mental effort - capacity for frequent, intense mental concentration
- Emotional effort - capacity to frequently work with highly emotional circumstances and levels of distress
- Working conditions - capacity to work in a mental health setting with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions such as verbal aggression.
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.
