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Job summary

Main area
AHP
Grade
Band7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
455-BEH-0044
Employer
306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bay Tree House
Town
Enfield
Salary
£51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/04/2025 23:59

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306 North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Psychology

Band7

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 a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Community CYPMHS Service in Enfield Generic Team and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a great location (the post is based at Bay Tree House in Enfield). This is a full-time post, but we are also open to applications for part time/flexible working.

Main duties of the job

·       The post holder will be part of the Generic team with Enfield CAMHS, providing assessments and interventions to children, young people and families/carers; contributing to the assessment and diagnostic processes and formulating areas of strengths and needs to inform on evidence-based interventions. In addition to providing clinical supervision to clinicians and trainees, the post holder will also provide support and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, professionals and non-professional staff. There are opportunities to deliver utilise research skills for audit and service developmental

Working for our organisation

Enfield CAMHS team is a very supportive, friendly and welcoming multi-disciplinary team with a well-established clinical/counselling psychology discipline, family therapy discipline and child psychotherapy discipline. We are looking for a clinician with a broad range of experience, including experience of working with children and families who present with a high level of complexity, as the work will assess and treat a diverse range of difficulties. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As part of job planning, the staff member would be supported to carry out the following roles:

·       Line Management of appropriately identified clinical staff.

·       Clinical/ professional supervision and appraisal of identified clinical staff.

·       Supporting the induction of new staff and trainees.

·       Carrying out investigations and presenting findings.

Person specification

General

Essential criteria
  • Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
  • Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention
  • Post-graduate up to doctoral level training in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy as accredited by the Association of Child Psychology (ACP), This includes an essential personal training therapy of at least three times a week for a minimum of three years.
Desirable criteria
  • Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects
  • Experience in carrying out ADOS-2 assessments for ASD
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional
  • Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into health

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ngonneh Brou
Job title
Operational Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02082137765
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