Assistant Psychologist or Associate Mental Health Worker | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Lakenheath; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Overview

Applications are welcomed for this position within the Haringey Personality Disorder Pathway. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful applicants to develop skills and confidence working with clients with personality disorders in a highly supportive environment. You will work closely with a range of mental health professionals and will have the opportunity to undertake a variety of tasks to contribute to service provision.

The PD Pathway provides a service for patients with Personality disorders that fall within Clusters B (mainly those with EUPD/borderline, narcissistic antisocial or other mixed PD traits) and who are requiring multi disciplinary care and treatment. The multi disciplinary team consists of psychological therapists, CMHNs, social workers, OTs and AMHWs. The Pathway works closely with the generic community Core teams and acute services.

Within the PD Pathway the successful applicants will have a broad range of duties; including contributing to the provision of both group and individual psychological work, undertaking defined pieces of work within a Structured Clinical management framework, and auditing and managing spread sheets for the team. There are also likely to be opportunities to contribute to service development and research. Clinical Supervision for psychological work will be provided by senior clinicians and caseload management work will be supervised by senior members of the team. The Pathway aims to foster a supportive environment for staff and personal and professional development is well supported. There are opportunities for assisting in assessments and other psychological treatments such as MBT and DBT.

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