Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking an enthusiastic psychologist to join their memory service in Barnet, supporting both individual clients and a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will provide high-quality psychological assessments, assist with differential diagnosis, and supervise junior staff. This role offers exceptional development opportunities in a diverse community setting. If you're passionate about improving mental health care for older adults, apply before the closing date of January 8, 2026.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Interest in dementia and working with older people.
• Experience in providing clinical psychology services.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based clinical psychology services to clients.
• Conduct psychological assessments for complex conditions.
• Support and train MDT colleagues within the service.
• Supervise clinical psychology trainees and assistants.

Skills

Interest in neuropsychology

Ability to assist with differential diagnosis

Leadership skills

Supervisory skills

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Job description

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 people’s 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.

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.

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:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. 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 falls 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.

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.

• 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 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/graduates as appropriate.

This advert closes on Thursday 8 Jan 2026.