Assistant Psychologist

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in City of Westminster is looking for individuals to join their team focused on developing skills in working with complex mental health issues. The role involves direct clinical work and operational support with opportunities for professional growth. Join a committed team that offers NHS discounts, generous annual leave, and a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Willingness to work with clients with interpersonal complexity.
• Experience in psychological therapies is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Direct clinical work with clients (individual and group).
• Operational support to team leads.
• Opportunity to contribute to service development.

Job description

Overview

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 MAP patients present as withdrawn, isolated, lonely, limited in their functioning and have multiple social and psychological needs.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.

Why join

The MAP Pathway is part of the Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) Service and works with related pathways. A willingness to work with clients who present with interpersonal complexity is essential for this role.

Main duties

• Direct clinical work (both individual and group).
• Operational support to the lead, including managing spreadsheets and conducting a monthly audit of pathway clinical activity.
• Opportunity to contribute to service development.
• Assistant Psychologists are an integral part of the MAP Pathway; their skills and contributions are highly valued.
• The role is developmental, with support to progress to the next stage of your career at the end of the contract.
• There is the opportunity to attend borough-wide training sessions for Assistant Psychologists to help develop skills and plan next career steps.

NLFT and commitments

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• 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.
• 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.