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We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

We are proud of the success of Enfield Talking Therapies and are expanding our counselling team. Would you like to Join us?

Enfield Talking Therapies are looking for a counsellor who is caring and committed to time-limited therapy in the NHS to join our counselling team. We are a well-established team of therapists including CBT therapists and PWPs with counsellors being well integrated within the service.

Your training might be psychodynamic, person centred, integrative or existential and you should be accredited with the BACP or another appropriate body (candidates who have submitted their portfolios for accreditation also accepted - state this clearly in your supporting statement). You will have excellent spoken and written communication skills. We work to a hybrid model offering sessions to our clients in-person or via a video platform, you will be required to work at our site in Enfield as well as working remotely. As an employer we support flexible working.

We will be committed to helping you continue to progress your career through a range of development and training opportunities, in addition to excellent supervision and peer support. If you are not trained in an IAPT approved modality (e.g. PCE-CfD, DIT, etc.) you will be appointed to a band 6 post and we will support you in obtaining a place on an IAPT training programme to progress to a band 7 position.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are keen to recruit people who reflect the diverse communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

 Job summary:

• To provide a time-limited counselling service to Step 3 clients of the Enfield Talking Therapies Service.
• To offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to staff from other agencies involved in providing care.
• To work to a pattern of clinical hours and in localities that support the needs of the service and local population.
• To liaise with local mental health-based services and voluntary community agencies.
• To monitor and audit evidence-based practice.
• To contribute to policy and service development within the team and the area served by the team/service.
• To work within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Working for our organisation

Working for your organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Haringey Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.