Counselling/Clinical Psychologist

Open Door; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading voluntary sector organization is seeking a part-time Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to provide essential therapy services for young people aged 12-24 in Haringey. The role involves delivering psychotherapy and CBT, working with adolescents, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams. Applicants should be registered with the HCPC and possess relevant experience in child and adolescent mental health services. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract with the potential for extension.

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a psychologist within a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service.
• Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical and clinical knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide an adolescent assessment and treatment service for young people and parents.
• Participate in multi-agency meetings including Child Protection Conferences.

Skills

Communication

Time management

Administrative Skills

Education

Doctoral level training in Counselling or Clinical psychology

Eligibility for Chartered Status with the BPS

Job description

Job summary

PLEASE APPLY FOR THIS ROLE USING THE OPEN DOOR APPLICATION FORM ATTACHED TO THIS ADVERT (to be downloaded and emailed to [e-mail]) OR CONTACT US FOR A FULL APPLICATION PACK.

We are excited to be recruiting a part-time role for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to provide psychology and psychotherapy in our dynamic voluntary sector adolescent service.

Open Door's mission is to make talking therapy as accessible as possible to all young people in Haringey who need it.

Provisional interview dates: 10th and11th June

• 0.4FTE post, with some flexibility around working hours and days of the week.
• This is a 12-month fixed-term contract (with the hope of extension)

• We are looking for an energetic and flexible clinician to undertake a range of clinical work with 12-24 year olds, parents/carers.

• This includes brief, medium and longer-term psychotherapy and CBT with adolescents and young adults.

• Parent work (may include training in and delivering Open Doors parent work model)
• Applicants must have experience of working with adolescents, parents and carers within a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service and be registered with the HCPC as Counselling or Clinical Psychologist
• We welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of all kinds, including global majority and/or neurodivergent psychologists.

Main duties of the job

To provide an efficient,effective and highly specialist adolescent assessment and treatment service foryoung people, parents or carers. Treatment will be provided to some adolescentswith severe, complex and persistent mental health problems.

To make complex clinicaljudgements and decisions, with the assistance of colleagues and managers, aboutrisk factors and to ensure that links are established with other agencies,particularly those in the statutory sector, to reduce risks and share responsibilitywithin mental health networks. To participate in multi-agency meetingsincluding Child Protection Conferences, Child in Need, Team around the Family,EHCP meetings and annual reviews etc.

To participate in and contributeto the development of Open Doors programmes of audit, evaluation and researchand support service users to contribute and participate and to ensure CYP-IAPTcompliance.

To work autonomously within theoverall policy and governance framework set out by Open Door.

To provide support for colleaguesin team meetings and in difficult or emergency situations.

To provide, when opportunitiesarise, consultation, training and advice for staff working in other specialistsettings.

About us

Open Door is an NCL ICB commissioned voluntary sectorservice based in Haringey, North London, providing a range of therapeuticservices for young people aged 12-24 and parents/carers. We form part of theHaringey CAMHS pathway for 12-18-year-olds and are a highly regarded clinicalservice. Open Door recently received national recognition for our impact, as a2024 finalist for Health Service Journal (HSJ) Award for Reducing Inequalityand Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People.

Open Door offers talking therapy to adolescents and youngadults on a brief, medium and longer-term basis. The team comprises Child &Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapists, Psychodynamic Psychotherapists andCounselling Psychologists who offer psychotherapy, CBT, drama therapy,therapeutic football groups and EMDR. The clinical team currently comprises 27qualified and trainee therapists, many of whom are NHS trained and all of whomare professionally accredited. We are a highly skilled team and many of ourclinicians also teach on professional trainings.

Open Door works from bases in Crouch End and Tottenham, andprovides services in local secondary schools and the Haringey Autism Hub. Mostof our work is delivered in person as this is what most young people tell usthey want. Demand for the service is high.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. More than half of our young people are from globalmajority communities, and approximately 1 in 4 are neurodivergent.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details, please see full job description pdf available to download with this job advertisement

Job description
Job responsibilities

For further details, please see full job description pdf available to download with this job advertisement

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in Counselling or Clinical psychology
• Registered with the HCPC as Counselling or Clinical Psychologist
• Eligibility for Chartered Status with the BPS

Desirable

• Additional post-doctorate advanced training, for example in CBT, EMDR, IPT, DBT

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical, technical and evidence-based clinical knowledge and experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively in highly emotive situations: overcoming barriers to understanding and analysing complex and conflicting opinion/emotions.
• Ability to organise and schedule a range of complex multi-professional activities such as: consultations with clinical teams, educational and training courses, group supervision sessions.
• Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
• Experience in the autonomous management of personal work patterns and caseload. This includes experience in scheduling and maintaining a pattern of complex clinical and non-clinical work.
• Good literary and report writing skills.
• Time management skills.
• Administrative Skills.
• Good Liaison Skills.
• Excellent general communication skills
• An awareness of the limitations and parameters of the treatment potential of psychotherapy.

Desirable

• Experience of research, service development and audit.
• Practical Computer Skills.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a psychologist within a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service, including substantial experience with relevant client group.
• Experience in the process of assessment, intervention and management of complex risk and clinical need.
• Experience of working with diversity including clients from different cultural, ethnic, gender, sexuality, socio-economic, ability, religious backgrounds.
• Experience of time limited and longer-term clinical work.
• Experience of working with parents and carers.
• Experience in the use of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
• Experience in liaison and multi-agency working.

Desirable

• Experience of liaison with other therapeutic modalities towards improving interdisciplinary understanding and networking to improve patient options for treatment.
• Experience of delivering group based therapy or psycho-education.
• Experience of developing service user participation.
• Interest and/or experience in service development.
• Knowledge of/ interest in understanding barriers faced, and improving access for young people, to psychotherapy and mental health services.
• Experience of/ interest in coproduction.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Awareness of the appropriate ethical, professional and legal responsibilities of their profession.
• Ability to work as an autonomous clinical specialist, whilst also maintaining close links with other clinicians and colleagues.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Willingness to work from a number of locations and using different platforms (eg: phone, video, text).
• Commitment to inclusion.
• Commitment to safeguarding.

Personal Characteristics

Essential

• Self-motivated
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Adaptable
• Good interpersonal skills
• Reliable
• Trustworthy
• Mental effort - capacity for frequent, intense mental concentration
• Emotional effort - capacity to frequently work with highly emotional circumstances and levels of distress
• Working conditions - capacity to work in a mental health setting with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions such as verbal aggression.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in Counselling or Clinical psychology
• Registered with the HCPC as Counselling or Clinical Psychologist
• Eligibility for Chartered Status with the BPS

Desirable

• Additional post-doctorate advanced training, for example in CBT, EMDR, IPT, DBT

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Ability to make complex autonomous judgements based on theoretical, technical and evidence-based clinical knowledge and experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively in highly emotive situations: overcoming barriers to understanding and analysing complex and conflicting opinion/emotions.
• Ability to organise and schedule a range of complex multi-professional activities such as: consultations with clinical teams, educational and training courses, group supervision sessions.
• Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
• Experience in the autonomous management of personal work patterns and caseload. This includes experience in scheduling and maintaining a pattern of complex clinical and non-clinical work.
• Good literary and report writing skills.
• Time management skills.
• Administrative Skills.
• Good Liaison Skills.
• Excellent general communication skills
• An awareness of the limitations and parameters of the treatment potential of psychotherapy.

Desirable

• Experience of research, service development and audit.
• Practical Computer Skills.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a psychologist within a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health service, including substantial experience with relevant client group.
• Experience in the process of assessment, intervention and management of complex risk and clinical need.
• Experience of working with diversity including clients from different cultural, ethnic, gender, sexuality, socio-economic, ability, religious backgrounds.
• Experience of time limited and longer-term clinical work.
• Experience of working with parents and carers.
• Experience in the use of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
• Experience in liaison and multi-agency working.

Desirable

• Experience of liaison with other therapeutic modalities towards improving interdisciplinary understanding and networking to improve patient options for treatment.
• Experience of delivering group based therapy or psycho-education.
• Experience of developing service user participation.
• Interest and/or experience in service development.
• Knowledge of/ interest in understanding barriers faced, and improving access for young people, to psychotherapy and mental health services.
• Experience of/ interest in coproduction.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Awareness of the appropriate ethical, professional and legal responsibilities of their profession.
• Ability to work as an autonomous clinical specialist, whilst also maintaining close links with other clinicians and colleagues.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Willingness to work from a number of locations and using different platforms (eg: phone, video, text).
• Commitment to inclusion.
• Commitment to safeguarding.

Personal Characteristics

Essential

• Self-motivated
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Adaptable
• Good interpersonal skills
• Reliable
• Trustworthy
• Mental effort - capacity for frequent, intense mental concentration
• Emotional effort - capacity to frequently work with highly emotional circumstances and levels of distress
• Working conditions - capacity to work in a mental health setting with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions such as verbal aggression.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Open Door
Address

12 Middle Lane

Crouch End

London

N8 8PL

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