Nds Clinical Psychology

North London Nhs Foundation Trust; Enfield; Sur place; GBP 55 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

North London NHS Foundation Trust in London is seeking a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Community CYPMHS Service in Enfield Neurodevelopmental Team. This is a full-time post with flexible-working options, based at Bay Tree House in Enfield within a supportive multi-disciplinary service.

The role includes neurodevelopmental assessments, contributing to diagnoses, formulating plans, and supervising clinicians; you will support multi-agency partners and deliver evidence-based

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or equivalent).
• Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist (HCPC).
• Experience with neurodevelopmental disorders and working with children and families in mental health settings.
• Ability to provide supervision and consult with multidisciplinary colleagues.

Responsabilités

• Provide neurodevelopmental assessment and differential diagnostic assessment.
• Contribute to the diagnostic process and formulate areas of strength and needs for evidence-based interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision to clinicians and trainees.
• Offer support and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues and non-professional staff.
• Deliver therapeutic interventions and contribute to audit, service development and research.

Connaissances

Neurodevelopmental assessment

Complex assessments

Distress management

Supervision

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Formation

Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology

HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist

Description du poste

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Community CYPMHS Service in Enfield Neurodevelopmental Team and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a great location (the post is based at Bay Tree House in Enfield). This is a full-time post, but we are also open to applications for flexible working.

Enfield CAMHS Neurodevelopmental team is a very supportive, friendly and welcoming multi-disciplinary team with a well-established clinical/counselling psychology discipline, family therapy discipline and child psychotherapy discipline. We are looking for a clinician with a broad range of experience, including experience of working with children and families who present with a high level of complexity, as the work will assess and treat a diverse range of difficulties.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of the Neurodevelopmental team with Enfield CAMHS, providing a specialist service to children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs (e.g. ASD, ADHD). Offering specialist assessments, contributing to the diagnostic process and formulating areas of strength and needs to inform on evidence-based interventions. In addition to providing clinical supervision to clinicians and trainees, the post holder will also provide support and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, professionals, and non-professional staff. There are opportunities to deliver therapeutic interventions, utilise research skills for audit and service development.

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.
• 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

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.

Job responsibilities

• To provide neurodevelopmental assessment, differential diagnostic assessment, support and intervention to individuals, families or groups in Enfield CAMHS NDS Pathway.
• To be aware of the effectiveness of different targeted approaches to the treatment and management of social communication impairments for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders.
• To produce and implement plans for strategies and therapies targeting neurodevelopmental disorders, and using evidence based interventions, across the full range of care settings.
• To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care to colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services and appropriate agencies, and/or carers.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, based on both theoretical and therapeutic models.
• To develop collaborative working relationships with school and work alongside multi-agency services to provide appropriate support for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders in mainstream provisions.
• To utilise research skills and core professional training for audit, service development and research within the area served by the service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or equivalent)
• Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist

Desirable

• ADOS 2 training
• ADI-R and/or 3di
• Further training in a specialized area of psychological practice through formal post- doctoral training (diploma or equivalent)

Skills/ Abilities

Essential

• Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly in their network.
• Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression, or the threat of physical aggression.
• Good working knowledge of current and emerging areas of good practice in neurodevelopmental assessment and neurodevelopmental services

Desirable

• Skills in conducting and formulating cognitive assessments
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential

• Interest and/or experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs in mental health services,
• Knowledge and experience of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures with young people with and without neurodevelopmental needs
• Experience in offering consultation to referrers and signposting to alternative services.

Desirable

• Additional specialist training related to neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Additional specialist training related to neurodevelopmental disorders.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• A commitment to service users' participation across the levels of clinical practice,
• Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision.

Desirable

• Awareness and understanding of emotional distress/mental health problems drawn from personal experience.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).