Clinical Psychologist

Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust; Edgware; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust is seeking a Clinical Psychologist for its CAMHS Inpatient Unit. The role involves conducting assessments and delivering interventions for young people in crisis, along with opportunities for professional development and co-production in service delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties.
• Experience working with children and young people 0-18 years.
• Experience of working in inpatient settings.

Responsibilities

• Conduct psychological assessment and care planning with young people in mental health crisis.
• Deliver individual and group psychologically informed interventions.
• Support risk assessment and safety planning.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Quality improvement

Education

Doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology

Professional Registration with HCPC

Further training in CBT, DBT or other relevant intervention

Further training in supervision

Job description

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Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Location:

Edgware, United Kingdom

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Other

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Posted:

15.06.2025

Expiry Date:

30.07.2025

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Job overview

This is an exciting role located in our CAMHS Inpatient Unit, The Beacon Centre. This General Adolescent Unit sits within our CAMHS Crisis Pathway, which offers services to young people on the edge of crisis or in crisis. There is a dynamic therapies team (psychology, systemic therapy, art therapy and music therapy) who work within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting young people (13-18yrs) with complex needs including trauma. The Unit is expanding to offer 15 beds to young people, and the therapies team is growing to meet that increased need. The role will be supervised by a senior psychologist within the unit and supported by a wider MDT of experienced practitioners. There is an opportunity to supervise an assistant psychologist on the Unit.

Main duties of the job

The job is ideal for someone who is interested in working to engage young people who are in crisis and need support to draw out their strengths and hope for the future. The role involves building consistent, supportive relationships with young people and being able to help a young person generalise those relationships to other adults around them. There will be some psychological assessment, for the purposes of formulation driven intervention with young people on the unit. The unit has an current psychology group program which this role would support with the ongoing delivery and development of. Skills in risk and crisis management are essential, and work with wider networks is required to support a young person in a holistic way.

The role will also involve sharing psychological thinking within the clinical and nursing teams via formulation, training, and consultation, and using audit and service development skills for the purposes of Quality Improvement. There are plans to further develop co-production on the unit in order to improve the experience young people have during their stay and for future young people. The role includes opportunities for CPD as part of the North London Partnership’s psychological therapies pathway.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To conduct psychological assessment, formulation and care planning with young people in mental health crisis who require a hospital admission, in conjunction with other team members.

· To deliver individual and group psychologically informed interventions, either jointly with the therapies team, or autonomously.

· To engage young people on the ward, and implement cognitive-behavioural and emotional regulation approaches, aimed at helping service users to improve their well-being and functioning.

· Support with risk assessment and safety planning, in conjunction with the wider inpatient team.

· To use skills in service evaluation and audit to evaluate and inform service development within the team. To lead on or contribute to quality improvement projects

· To contribute to MDT discussions, formulations, and CPD sessions and to provide teaching where required, as well as providing formal and informal consultation to other staff, to contribute positively to the therapeutic milieu

· To engage with the rest of the therapies team to consider packages of care offered to young people, and the development of a well-rounded therapies ‘offer’

· To consider the validity and use of outcome and feedback measures within an inpatient context

· To be involved in co-production and supporting the feedback of young people to be heard and used to impact service delivery.

Person specification

Qualifications/Registrations

• Doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology
• Professional Registration with HCPC to qualify as a Clinical Psychologist in the UK
• Further training in CBT, DBT or other relevant intervention for the client group
• Further training in supervision

Skills/Abilities

• Skills in psychological assessment and treatment of children and young people, including developing individualised formulations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills & demonstrable ability to work flexibly and respectfully with others.
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• An understanding of service evaluation methods in healthcare, and an ability to plan and implement quality improvement projects.
• Ability to maintain and manage own workload.
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.

Experience/Knowledge

• Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
• Experience working with children and young people 0-18 yrs
• Experience working with young people at risk to themselves or others. Experience of working with and knowledge in processes around managing risk and safeguarding
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary and multiagency sharing psychological thinking through consultation, training or other means
• Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group.
• Experience working in inpatient settings