Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking a Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Barnet Memory Service. The role involves providing high-quality psychological services, conducting assessments, and supervising colleagues. The ideal candidate will have doctoral-level training in psychology, experience with neuropsychological assessments, and a commitment to professional development. This part-time permanent position offers competitive compensation and opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience with neuropsychological assessments, particularly involving dementia.
• Qualifications in research methodology and applied psychology.
• Evidence of continuing professional development per BPS/HCPC.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological service to clients referred to the Barnet Memory Service.
• Deliver neuropsychological assessments and consultations.
• Supervise clinical psychology colleagues and students.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Leadership skills

Communication

Neuropsychological input

Consultation and training

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology

Registration with Health & Care Professions Council

Job description

Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic psychologist interested in working within a memory service to join our supportive network of psychologists working with older peoples mental health services in Barnet and across the trust. The role is fully integrated into the multidisciplinary Barnet Memory Service and has the support of an Assistant Psychologist.

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.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will have an interest in neuropsychology and dementia, as an important aspect is assisting with differential diagnosis and providing post-diagnostic intervention. There will also be opportunities to develop leadership skills through quality improvement project work and to take on some supervision and teaching responsibilities.

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.

• 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.

Job responsibilities

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 carers 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

Person Specification

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
• Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
• Pre‑qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Skills/ Abilities

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well‑developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
• Skills in the delivery and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Experience/ Knowledge

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Experience of neuropsychological assessments, particularly those relevant to working with dementia
• Experience of providing supervision.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and intervention/treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, residential care homes and in‑patient settings.
• Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges.
• Experience of teaching/training

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting and establish constructive working relationships across services and care agencies
• Flexibility and versatility in order to work effectively with the wide range of individual needs encountered in a service for Older People

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.

Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital Site, Welhouse Lane

£53,751 to £60,651 a yearPer annum including HCAS (pro‑ratio)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part‑time

Reference number

455‑NLFT‑0546

Job locations

Barnet Memory Service

Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital Site, Welhouse Lane