Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to deliver specialized psychological services within the Barnet Memory Service. The ideal candidate will have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and experience in psychological assessments and interventions. The role involves consulting with multidisciplinary colleagues, providing training, and supervising staff while focusing on client needs. This position offers a variety of employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven experience in delivering high-quality psychological services.
• Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of mental health conditions and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments for clients.
• Consult and support MDT colleagues in delivering interventions.
• Supervise clinical psychology colleagues and trainees.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Consultation

Training and support

Supervision

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people.

North London Way

The North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Main Duties of the role

The main duties of the job are to provide a service user focused and evidence based high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients referred to the Barnet Memory Service (BMS), which includes the following.

• The provision of specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment for individual service users including those with complex mental health conditions, cognitive impairment and co-morbid physical health conditions, their carer's and their families.
• Providing specialist psychology input into BMS services, including aiding diagnostic assessment and the development and clinical supervision of delivering time limited post-diagnostic psychological interventions.
• Consultation, training and support for MDT colleagues working within Barnet Memory Service, joint delivery of interventions and input to team meetings.
• Consultation, training and support for the wider systems and organisations providing care for service-users.
• Supervision of clinical psychology colleagues including trainees and psychology assistant/s graduates as appropriate.

Barnet, London

Barnet is a diverse place to work. It is the largest London borough with over 380,000 residents from varying backgrounds. The population is ethnically diverse and there is a high percentage of older people. Parts of it are in the Green Belt; it includes a number of nature reserves, and it borders rural Hertfordshire, yet it has direct underground and train links into the centre of London.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

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.

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 networks.

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.