School-Based Assistant Psychologist (CYP-IAPT/CAMHS)

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership development

Flexible working

NHS discounts

Staff network

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Assistant Psychologist to join the Haringey MHST multi-disciplinary team, supporting children and adolescents with mild to moderate emotional and mental health difficulties in educational settings.

The role involves supervised clinical work, evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions, service evaluation, audits and potential small-scale research. You will work closely with CAMHS professionals and contribute to CYP-IAPT principles.

Responsibilities

• Clinical work under supervision, administer surveys, psychometric and psychological screening and assessments with children, young people, parents for whole school approaches in educational or community settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Under supervision, contribute to clinical interventions with children, young people, and families through individual, group or workshops in schools.
• Develop skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in self-management of presenting difficulties.
• Develop and practice evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
• Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, recognizing and respecting diversity.
• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance.
• Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity in line with health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.
• Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
• Complete all requirements of data collection
• Team Activity 1. Contributing to team and service functioning to assist in the design and implementation of audit, service development projects / tasks and evaluation as required.
• 2. To assist in meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.
• 3. To contribute to the team and service's delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• 4. Complete all requirements of data collection.

Job description

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Assistant Psychologist to join the Haringey MHST multi-disciplinary team, supporting children and adolescents with mild to moderate emotional and mental health difficulties in educational settings.

The role involves supervised clinical work, evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions, service evaluation, audits and potential small-scale research. You will work closely with CAMHS professionals and contribute to CYP-IAPT principles.