Barnet CAMHS Lead Psychologist

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Hadley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Flexible working

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a senior psychology role within CAMHS in Barnet. The post focuses on leading psychological therapy pathways, supervising staff, and delivering trauma-informed, evidence-based care to children and young people with emotional difficulties.

You will co-lead the Psychology Meeting, oversee CPD, and deputise for the CAMHS Consultant in their absence, contributing to service development within a multidisciplinary, community CAMHS setting.

Qualifications

• Senior Psychologist with leadership responsibilities in CAMHS.
• Experience leading clinical psychology teams and pathways.
• Proven track record in evidence-based, trauma-informed practice with children and families.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of psychological therapy pathways for CAMHS.
• Provide supervision to trainees and qualified psychologists.
• Co-lead the monthly Psychology Meeting and oversee CPD for staff.
• Deputise for the CAMHS Consultant Psychologist in their absence.
• Governance of psychological therapy practice within the borough CAMHS service.
• Undertake audits, policy development and service improvement work.

Skills

Senior Psychologist

Leadership

CAMHS experience

Job description

Are you looking for a new senior Psychology role in CAMHS? Would you like to join a warm, thoughtfuland inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, person-centered, trauma-informedand evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties?, Take a lead role, in partnership and collaboration with the part-time Psychology Lead and other senior clinicians across disciplines, for developing psychological therapy pathways and model-driven interventions for children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting. 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.

Take delegated management responsibility for appraisals, offer supervision to trainee and qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists and ensure supervision arrangements are in place for the psychology staff within the Barnet CAMHS service.

Co-lead the monthly Psychology Meeting and oversee the continuous professional development of Psychologists in the service.

Deputise for the CAMHS Consultant Counselling/Clinical Psychologist in their absence.

Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological therapy practice within the borough service, in collaboration with the Clinical Lead and of the Head of Therapies.

Utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research.

Propose and implement policy changes within the borough-based CAMHS service and Trust-wide CAMHS forums.

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

3.We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4.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