band 7 psychologist

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Excellent internal staff network

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust in London is seeking a Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the Barnet CAMHS Teams at Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware. The role involves delivering generic and neurodevelopmental assessments and psychological interventions to children and families in a community CAMHS setting.

You'll provide supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Psychology students and CBT therapists, work alongside MDT colleagues, participate in MDT meetings and multi-agency

Qualifications

• Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist role in CAMHS.
• Work within the CAMHS 0-18 service.
• Provide supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Psychology students and CBT therapists.
• Contribute to neurodevelopmental service and MDT meetings.

Responsibilities

• Deliver generic and neurodevelopmental assessments and psychological interventions to families in a community CAMHS setting.
• Offer specialist CAMHS assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families/carers.
• Work autonomously within professional Psychology guidelines and exercise responsibility for CPD.
• Represent Psychology in MDT meetings and CAMHS in multi‑agency contexts as appropriate.

Job description

Are you passionate about working with young people and families? Are you looking for a Psychology role in CAMHS? Would you like to join a warm, thoughtful and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, developmentally-sensitive, person-centered, trauma-informed and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties? If so, an opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the generic Barnet CAMHS Teams, at Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware. This post is located within the multidisciplinary CAMHS 0-18 service, delivering generic and neurodevelopmental assessments and psychological interventions to families living within the borough of Barnet. Offer specialist CAMHS assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting, under the supervision of a senior psychologist. Contribute to the work of Barnet CAMHS neurodevelopmental service. Offer supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Psychology students and CBT therapists. Work alongside MDT colleagues and represent Psychology in MDT meetings, and CAMHS in multi-agency contexts as appropriate. Work autonomously within professional Psychology guidelines and exercise responsibility for their continuous professional development.

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.

• 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.