Assistant Psychologist

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership development

Flexible working

NHS discounts

Staff network

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Assistant Psychologist to join the Haringey MHST multi-disciplinary team, supporting children and adolescents with mild to moderate emotional and mental health difficulties in educational settings.

The role involves supervised clinical work, evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions, service evaluation, audits and potential small-scale research. You will work closely with CAMHS professionals and contribute to CYP-IAPT principles.

Responsibilities

• Clinical work under supervision, administer surveys, psychometric and psychological screening and assessments with children, young people, parents for whole school approaches in educational or community settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Under supervision, contribute to clinical interventions with children, young people, and families through individual, group or workshops in schools.
• Develop skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in self-management of presenting difficulties.
• Develop and practice evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
• Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, recognizing and respecting diversity.
• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance.
• Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity in line with health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.
• Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
• Complete all requirements of data collection
• Team Activity 1. Contributing to team and service functioning to assist in the design and implementation of audit, service development projects / tasks and evaluation as required.
• 2. To assist in meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.
• 3. To contribute to the team and service's delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• 4. Complete all requirements of data collection.

Job description

The post holder will providea range of duties to support our expanding team. This includes service evaluation, audit, and there may be an opportunity to contribute on small scale research projects. The postholder will gain clinical experience supervised closely by CAMHS clinical professionals for children and adolescents experiencing mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties. This includes evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions in schools, employing CYP-IAPT principles (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). The post holder may also be involved in co-production and participation for children and young people and parents. The Assistant Psychologist will join the existing Haringey MHST multi-disciplinary team (that includes a Team Manager, Clinical Lead, CAMHS clinicians / supervisors from a range of disciplines including CAMHS nurse specialists, speech and language therapist, play therapist, and qualified children's wellbeing practitioners and education and mental health practitioners) to support the work within schools. The post holder will providea range of duties to support our expanding team. This includes service evaluation, audit, and there may be an opportunity to contribute on small scale research projects. The postholder will gain clinical experience supervised closely by CAMHS clinical professionals for children and adolescents experiencing mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties. This includes evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions in schools, employing CYP-IAPT principles (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). The post holder may also be involved in co-production and participation for children and young people and parents. There will be three MHSTs covering several education sites across the borough, operating as one large team. The project started in October 2019 with a small number of placement schools, and currently meets over 1/3 of schools. The aim is to gradually increase the offer of support to more schools in the borough. The service currently comprises: 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: 1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 3. 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.

• 1. Clinical work under supervision, administer surveys, psychometric and psychological screening and assessments with children, young people, parents for whole school approaches in educational or community settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• 2. Under supervision, to contribute to clinical interventions with children, young people, and families through individual, group or workshops in schools.
• 3. Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
• 4. Developing and practicing evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
• 5. Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognizes and respects diversity.
• 6. Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance.
• 7. Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.
• 8. Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
• 9. Complete all requirements of data collection
• Team Activity 1. Contributing to team and service functioning to assist in the design and implementation of audit, service development projects / tasks and evaluation as required.
• 2. To assist in meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.
• 3. To contribute to the team and service's delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• 4. Complete all requirements of data collection.