Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 455-CANDI-756-B
- Employer
- Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Camden and Islington
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 inclusive of Inner London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Core team 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
North London Mental Health Partnership includes Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I).
Together, our two trusts employ around 6,000 staff and support almost a quarter of a million adults and children with mental health conditions. We are a forward-thinking, innovative organisation, committed to delivering the very best care possible.
We provide a wide range of mental health specialist services, including children and young people’s mental health services, prison services, forensic services, eating disorders and drug and alcohol recovery. We also support the UK Armed forces community, including members of the Reserve Forces, providing specialist veteran services across London.
Both our trusts are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, with many areas judged to be Outstanding.
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 Apprenticeship opportunities as well as employment opportunities for care-leavers.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We are a great place to work for our staff with occupational health services, wellbeing initiatives and staff incentives.
- We offer flexible working,
- Our staff are eligible for the NHS Pension Scheme and receive a generous annual leave allowance.
- Discounts are offered to NHS staff in a wide range of stores and services
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups
- We support learning and personal development opportunities.
Job overview
The post-holder will be part of a team providing extended assessments, formulations and brief interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems in the London Borough of Camden or Islington. As there are two roles at band 8A level, one postholder will be based in Islington Core teams and one postholder will be based in Camden Core teams.
Main duties of the job
These roles will provide interventions at the interface between Core teams and the Complex Depression, Anxiety and Trauma (CDAT) service and the Personality Disorder service. The aim of the service is to increase the number of people whose mental health support is appropriately managed in line with the community framework for mental health using a population health approach. The post-holder will act as a fully integrated member of the team providing a specialist psychological perspective to support the transformation and development of the service.
The post-holder will work as part of a service embedded in local GP practices, working with multi-disciplinary colleagues to increase psychologically and trauma informed practice as well as offer evidence based interventions.
The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment using evidence based, NICE recommended interventions and will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
Working for our organisation
Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation and investment. Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with Mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each population unit is based on the footprint of a Primary Care Network, bringing together NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide a comprehensive psychology service as an integrated part of the Core Team
- Provide triage and specialist psychological assessment, formulation, consultation and interventions – particularly for people with complex emotional needs, including personality disorder and complex trauma
- Provide direct clinical input and supervision of individual, group or team brief interventions for complex emotional needs
- Assist GPs with diagnosis, management plans, risk assessments, crisis plans and self-help plans for service users with complex common mental health problems and stable severe mental health presentations who are being managed exclusively in primary car
- Work with Core Team colleagues to develop a collaborative care model for service users with complex physical and emotional difficulties, including those with complex emotional needs, Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) and Long-Term Conditions (LTC
- Play a key role in implementing improved linkage and interface between Core and Intensive Teams
- Provide advice and support to network teams on the management of service users who have been stepped down from secondary care / intensive community mental health service
- Support primary care staff in their management and treatment of service users through case discussions, joint consultations and bespoke training.
- Maintain effective communication with GP, primary care staff, service users and their carers;
- Provide clinical input, where necessary, to multi-disciplinary case conferencing around complex presentations being managed solely in primary care within the team and as part of the wider integrated health and care networks.
- Engage with local service user participation models.
- Work within the MDT promoting respect for all professional groups and focusing upon coherent and integrated teamwork.
- Provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment offered and undertaken with service users.
- Manage and supervise psychologists, clinical associates, assistants, apprentices and other staff as appropriate, including more junior clinical / counselling psychologists
- To offer teaching, training and undertake appropriate research, audits and service evaluations to support service delivery and development.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training (or equivalent) in clinical/counselling psychology
- HCPC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of multi-model psychological assessment, formulation and intervention across levels of complexity and settings
- Experience of interventions for people with complex emotional needs – including personality disorder and complex trauma.
- Experience of providing supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experience of MDT working and consultation
- Extensive post-doctoral experience of working with complex mental health presentations
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of multi-theoretical psychological models (e.g. trauma-informed, DBT, CBT, SCM)
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 Farha Choudhary
- Job title
- Consultant Psychologist
- Telephone number
- 07970-000-195
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