Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-BEH-0082
- Employer
- 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital
- Town
- Barnet
- Salary
- £67,950 - £78,028 per annum (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/06/2025
Employer heading
Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Barnet EIS
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through 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.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to work as the Principle Clinical/Counselling Psychologist within the Barnet Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIS) Team. As an embedded psychologist, you will lead on ensuring the provision of a high-quality psychological service to service users referred to the EIS team. This psychological work will include both direct working with service users and their family members as well as indirect working through consultation, formulation, and psychologically informed input into team meetings. Collaborative joint working with the wider multi-disciplinary team is an integral part of this role. You will also be taking up a Leadership role in supporting the team as they work towards their Early Intervention in Psychosis Network (EPIN) accreditation.
As the Barnet Psychosis Lead, you will also be expected to offer supervision and/or consultation to other Psychologists who work in specialist Psychosis Teams (e.g. Community Rehab) or who are delivering CBT-p or other psychosis-specific interventions within other Secondary Care Teams.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
1) Leading in the development, supervision and support of a psychological therapies for psychosis patients providing:
a. Highly specialist assessment & formulation
b. Direct provision of therapies covered by NICE guidelines and the National Standards for Early Intervention, including in particular CBTp.
2) Lead in the offering advice and consultation on psychosis service users’ psychological care through:
a. Joint and collaborative working.
b. Joint therapeutic work.
c. Psychological consultation and input to the team and in MDT meetings.
d. Supervision or consultation groups, and reflective practice.
e. Post-incident support and reflections for the team.
f. Taking a leadership role in providing psychologically informed input to the senior management team.
3) Demonstrate professional skills to:
a. Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the service’s policies and procedures and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
b. Provide supervision and teaching
c. To take a lead role for clinical governance for the psychosis psychology pathway
d. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research.
e. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
Working for our organisation
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:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
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We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
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We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
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NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
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Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our Values:
- We Are Kind
- We Are Respectful
- We Work Together
- We Keep Things Simple
- We Empower
- We Are Proudly Diverse
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the documentation attached to this post.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- 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 and Care Professions Council as a psychologist – UK approved courses only.
- Completion of a clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
- Diploma in CBTp
- Doctoral level knowledge of psychological therapies including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Eligibility for Chartered Psychologist status.
- Experience of supervising clinicians in CBT-p
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
- Competency in neuropsychological assessments.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with psychosis, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist, including substantial recent post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
- Experience of providing CBT for psychosis.
- Experience of working with carers and family members
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified psychologist and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a substantial number of hours clinical supervision in working as a specialist clinical psychologist.
- Experience of providing professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching and training
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to “hold” the stress of others
- Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrable leadership and management qualities.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Personal experience of mental health problems and/or personal therapy.
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- A desire to CPD and keeping abreast of developments in Professional Psychology
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situation and severely challenging behaviours
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Ayo Sodeke-Gregson
- Job title
- Barnet Divisional Lead for Psychological Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087026898
- Additional information
Or alternatively, you can also contact the Barnet EIS Team Manager, Joe Stephens on [email protected] or 0208 7024230.
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