Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

North London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service is seeking a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join their Community Team. The role involves providing psychological assessments, interventions, and clinical supervision while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. This position offers the chance to contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives within a supportive environment.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous Annual Leave

NHS Pension Scheme

Health and Wellbeing Initiatives

Qualifications

• Provide psychological interventions within a CPA/Dialog framework.
• Clinically supervise Psychology colleagues and contribute to service management.

Responsibilities

• Screen and respond to Community Team referrals.
• Provide assessment and consultation to staff.
• Contribute to clinical and operational management of the Personality Disorder Service.

Skills

Psychological Perspective

Clinical Supervision

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Education

Doctorate in Psychology

Job description

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This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Psychologist to join the multi-disciplinary Community Team in the Camden and Islington Personality Disorder Service in North London Foundation Trust. The post-holder will join the Team Manager, Senior Social Worker and Consultant Psychiatrists in leading the team which is made up of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Nurses and counselling psychologists. The Community Team works alongside the Therapies Team and the Liaison Team in the Personality Disorder Service and the post holder is also a member of the whole service management group.

The main purpose of the role is to bring a psychological perspective to the work of the Community Team, which functions within a framework of psychologically-informed and change-focused case management and provides assessment, consultation and interventions to people with difficulties understood as severe 'personality disorder'. The post holder will also hold a small caseload offering individual and group interventions. The team currently uses psychologically-informed and change-focused case management and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) in their work with clients, and the post holder will be part of the DBT Team which works across both the Community Team and the Therapies Team in the service.

The post holder will have the opportunity to provide senior clinical input for the management of complex cases and to chair a weekly formulation-based discussion.

• Screening and responding to Community Team referrals
• Providing assessment to clients and consultation to staff
• Providing psychological interventions to clients within a CPA/Dialog + framework
• Clinically supervising Psychology colleagues and those from other disciplines
• Contributing to the clinical and operational management of the Personality Disorder Service
• Providing training to Trust colleagues and partner agencies
• Service development/QI/research
  
  

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.
• 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
  
  

The Post Holder Will Be Aligned With Our Values

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse
  
  

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sophie Colman Job title: Therapies Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02033176963

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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