Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking an enthusiastic psychologist to join the Barnet Memory Service. This role involves providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions for older adults. Ideal candidates will have doctoral-level training and experience in neuropsychological assessments. The position offers a supportive multidisciplinary environment with opportunities for training and professional development. Candidates with a strong commitment to quality care and effective communication skills are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in psychological therapies as accredited by the BPS.
• Experience in neuropsychological assessments relevant to dementia.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service.
• Conduct psychological assessments including complex cases.
• Consult and train MDT colleagues and support their interventions.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Effective communication

Consultation skills

Neuropsychological assessments

Group work skills

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology

Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council

Job description

Job Summary

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.

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.

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.

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).

• Provide specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment for individual service users including those with complex mental health conditions, cognitive impairment and co‑morbidity physical health conditions, their carers and families.
• Provide specialist psychology input into BMS services, including aiding diagnostic assessment and developing and clinically supervising delivery of 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.

Qualifications

• 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 (Desirable).

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.
• Skills in group work (Desirable).
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health (Desirable).

Experience

• 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 (Desirable).
• Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges (Desirable).
• Experience of teaching/training (Desirable).

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 & 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Employer Details

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Barnet Memory Service

Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital Site, Welhouse Lane

London

EN5 3DJ