Assistant Psychologist

North London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health care provider in London seeks an Assistant Psychologist to join a supportive team. The role involves developing treatment plans, conducting sessions, and supporting clients with complex mental health needs. Candidates should have a degree in psychology and some experience in healthcare. The position offers opportunities for professional development and is essential for enhancing patient care.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• 6 months previous experience in healthcare is required.
• Previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and implement treatment plans for clients.
• Conduct individual and group interventions.
• Exchange complex information with clients and families.
• Assist with referrals to health professionals.
• Support evidence-based practice in clinical settings.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Psychology

Job description

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MAP patients present as withdrawn, isolated, lonely, limited in their functioning and have multiple social and psychological needs.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 doing a monthly audit of pathway clinical activity, and opportunity to contribute to service development.

Assistant Psychologists are an integral part of the MAP Pathway and their skills and contributions are highly valued. We view the role as developmental and seek to offer the support required for you to move to the next stage of your career at the end of the contract. As such, there is opportunity to attend borough-wide training sessions for Assistant Psychologists to help develop your skills, and also 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.

• 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.
• 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 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 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 phone calls (check in calls) that would include mental health assessment, exploring current circumstances and risk management

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Psychology

Experience

• 6 months previous experience in healthcare
• Previous AP experience

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.

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