Assistant Psychologist

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London seeks an Assistant Psychologist to join a supportive team delivering mental health care. The ideal candidate will have a Psychology degree and previous healthcare experience. This role involves formulating treatment plans and conducting assessments. The position is part-time, fixed-term for 18 months, offering competitive pay and benefits.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Qualifications

• At least 6 months experience in healthcare.
• Familiarity with psychological treatment methods.
• Previous Assistant Psychologist experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and implement psychological treatment plans.
• Implement individual and group psychological interventions.
• Support referrals to other health professionals.
• Conduct mental health assessments and regular check-ins.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Psychology

Job description

Overview

Job summary: This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive, reflective, and creative team to develop your skills and confidence in working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems. You will be part of a vibrant multi-disciplinary team (MDT) which is psychologically led and you will be directly supervised by a clinical psychologist.

The MAP Pathway is an innovative and leading service in the treatment of complex anxiety and depression (with underlying Cluster C PD traits). It is part of the broader Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) Service, working with the complex PTSD Pathway and the PD Pathway (for Cluster B PD presentations). CEN offers specialist, psychologically informed multidisciplinary care to service users requiring more intensive input. A willingness to work with clients who present with interpersonal complexity is essential for this role.

MAP patients present as withdrawn, isolated, lonely, limited in their functioning and have multiple social and psychological needs. The aim of the team is to help increase people\'s functioning, so they can engage better with relationships and meaningful activity outside of services. Models used within the pathway range from Schema Therapy, DBT, psychodynamic, Systemic and CBT.

Please Note:

• We ask that you include why you would like to work in the MAP Pathway in your supporting statement.
• Should the volume of applications be very high, we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date.

Main duties of the job

This role offers a broad range of experiences including direct clinical work (both individual and group), operational support to the lead including managing spreadsheets and performing a monthly audit of pathway clinical activity, and opportunities to contribute to service development.

Assistant Psychologists are an integral part of the MAP Pathway and their skills and contributions are highly valued. The role is developmental and we seek to offer the support required for you to move to the next stage of your career at the end of the contract. There is opportunity to attend borough-wide training sessions for Assistant Psychologists to help develop your skills and plan for next steps in your career.

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 a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

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 falls 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.

Details

Date posted: 17 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 4

Salary: £32,199 to £34,876 a year pro rata Inclu HCAS

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 18 months

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 455-NLFT-0394-R-A

Job locations: St Ann\'s Hospital, Halliwick Centre, St Ann\'s Road, London, N153TH

Job responsibilities

• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client\'s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client\'s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing individual and group interventions for individuals, and groups including carers and families, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To be able to exchange complex information with clients, families, carers, staff and members of the public using sensitivity and empathy and ensuring collaborative working.
• To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of staff, clients and their families and carers.
• To be able to support pathway with referrals to other health professionals in specialist services and agencies.
• To ensure practice is supported by research and evidence-based practice.
• To make regular clinical calls (check-in calls) that would include mental health assessment, exploring current circumstances and risk management.

Qualifications and experience

Essential: Degree in Psychology

Experience: Essential: 6 months previous experience in healthcare

Experience desirable: Previous AP experience

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 CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship: 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.

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.

Employer details

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address: St Ann\'s Hospital, Halliwick Centre, St Ann\'s Road, London, N153TH

Employer website: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/