Clinical Associate Psychologist (CAP)

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a qualified Clinical Associate Psychologist to join their Core Team. This full-time position emphasizes a holistic approach to mental health care, offering opportunities for individual and group interventions, leadership, and service development. Candidates should possess a Master's in Clinical Psychology and relevant experience in community settings. The role offers a supportive environment, NHS discounts, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Relevant supervised experience of delivering psychological assessments and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and formulations for service users.
• Provide brief interventions for complex presentations.
• Deliver Structured Clinical Management-informed interventions.

Skills

Assessment and formulation

Therapeutic interventions

Group interventions

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

Masters Clinical Associate in Psychology qualification

Job description

Job Summary

Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. North London Foundation NHS Trust is at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental health difficulties, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector.

Clinical Associate Psychologists are an innovative role in mental health services, that are core to this community transformation and offering high quality clinical care to the Camden borough. We have an opportunity for a qualified Clinical Associate Psychologist (Band 6) to join our Kentish Town Core Team on a full-time basis.

Main duties of the job

The CAP role is central to the team's psychological provision, with opportunities for 1:1 therapy using a Structured Clinical Management model, offering group interventions, and joint assessment and consultation. There will be opportunities for leadership, research, service development and consultation to the system, which will involve liaising with professionals involved in the care of the individual.

Key Duties Include:

• Assessment and formulation for service users referred to Camden Core Mental Health team, under supervision from the wider Psychology team.
• Brief interventions for complex presentations above the threshold for Camden Talking Therapies but below threshold for secondary care.
• Individual interventions delivering Structured Clinical Management-informed interventions including problem-solving and skills focused work.
• Group interventions: psychoeducation and skills workshops.
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team.
• Working with diversity and a range of clinical presentations.
• Opportunities for service development, research projects and audit of interventions.
• Interdisciplinary and inter-agency working (e.g. with recovery college)

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.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• 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

Person Specification

Education

Essential: Masters Clinical Associate in Psychology qualification

Experience

Essential: Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team, Relevant supervised experience of delivering psychological assessments and interventions in community mental health settings.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.