Assistant Psychologist Young People Service Camden & Islington

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking an individual for a role focused on supporting the Camden Minding the Gap Partnership. The successful candidate will provide high-quality administrative support, assist in research, and manage data collection and reporting related to young people's mental health. A BPS Accredited Degree in Psychology is required, along with strong communication and data-collection skills.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• Skills in using data-collection applications such as Excel.
• Knowledge and understanding of the needs of people with mental health problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the Minding the Gap meetings.
• Capture data and prepare reports for commissioners.
• Assist in psychological assessments and interventions.

Skills

Effective communication

Data collection skills

Presentation skills

Videoconferencing applications

Education

BPS Accredited Degree in Psychology

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Teams

Zoom

Job description

The post is part of the Camden Minding the Gap Partnership (MTG) and Islington Transitions Team (ITT), an initiative designed to improve the transition experience of young people (aged 17-25) from CAMHS and other young people services into adult services and to make services more accessible and user-friendly for young people. The post-holder will support the work of MTG/ITT by administering the referral meetings, liaising with services in relation to transition cases, and collecting data for Camden & Islington Commissioners and preparing data reports. In addition to this, the post holder will spend one day per week in one of the Young People Service Clinical Pathways (To be discussed and agreed with the Post Holder A000 supervisor once they have started). The post holder will be expected to work across multiple sites in the trust. Time spent at each site will vary according to service need.

Main duties of the job

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• To provide a full range of high-quality administrative support to the MTG/ITT Minding the Gap meetings, including, but not restricted to the following:
• To capture data and prepare papers for quarterly reporting to commissioners for the service
• To assist in the design and implementation of research, audit and service development projects within the service as required.
• To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using databases and statistical programmes as required, across several different electronic patient records as held by both CAMHS and Adult Services.
• To accurately take and circulate minutes of meetings, type correspondence, reports, summaries and other documents, both clinical and general.
• To manage the receipt of referrals and generate the agenda for the MTG/ITT Meeting
• To assemble information about cases in advance of the MTG/ITT meeting
• To support the action points from the MTG/ITT Meeting by liaising with partner agencies as required
• To interview clients to capture qualitative data around the experience of transition
• Financial responsibility - The post holder will hold responsibility as requisitioning officer for the Young People and Transitions Service - training will be provided.

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.

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

Additional JD Roles & Responsibilities:

• To assist in the psychological assessment, formulation and delivery of 1:1 or group-based psychological interventions for service users, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
• To work with other staff in assessment, care provision and relevant multi-professional meetings.
• Research, audit, and service evaluation
• To assist in the design and implementation of research, audit, quality improvement and service development projects within the services as required.
• To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using databases and statistical programmes as required.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

• BPS Accredited Degree in Psychology

Skills/ Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with practitioners, service users, their families, carers and with other professional staff
• Skills in using data-collection applications such as Excel
• Skills in using presentation applications such as PowerPoint
• Skills in using videoconference applications such as Teams or Zoom

Experience/ Knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities
• Paid or volunteer direct care provision with people with mental health problems or other disabilities
• Experience of developing, evaluating and reporting on training
• Experience of quality improvement (QI) methodologies for service development

Personal Qualities

• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context
• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multi-professional setting.

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.

Clinical Lead for Young People & Transitions

£37,259 to £45,356 a year per annum including London HCAS (pro rata)