Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Therapies
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Michelle Durant (Barnet Urgent Care and CRHTT Psychology Lead))
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2626
- Employer
- 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Dennis Scott Unit - Edgware Community Hospital
- Town
- HERTFORDSHIRE
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 per annum including Outer London Allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 31/03/2025
Employer heading
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
Band 8a
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
The post-holder will work as a member of the Urgent Care Service, in Barnet part of the North London Foundation Trust. This post oversees and continuously improves the quality and culture as well as the therapeutic offer available in the acute care services in the inpatient wards. The post carries a specific remit to work with the ward teams to develop a systematic, consistent and effective response to the common issues that arise within acute care settings that can have a powerful impact on the overall effectiveness and quality of experience for people using the service and the staff working in it.
Main duties of the job
- They will be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service within acute care pathway. This will involve undertaking psychological assessments; evidence based short term psychological interventions, and contribute to the ward based therapeutic group work program and to provide individual and group supervision within multi-disciplinary teams.
- They will be responsible for providing psychological formulation and consultation to contribute to the care plans and management of service users currently being treated on the ward or in CRHTT.
- As a team member both of the psychological therapies acute care team and the ward MDT, they will be expected to work collaboratively, and with MDT members includingy the provision of joint assessments with Consultant Psychiatrists and joint working with other members of the team.
- They will provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
- They will supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by attached doctoral trainees and supervise psychologically driven treatment interventions by other members of the MDT.
- They will provide training, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team, who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
Working for our organisation
Working for North London Foundation Trust
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 NHS Foundation Trust
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
- Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
- We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance
- NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service within acute care pathway. This will involve undertaking psychological assessments; evidence based short term psychological interventions, and contribute to the ward based therapeutic group work program and to provide individual and group supervision within multi-disciplinary teams.
- The post-holder will be responsible for providing psychological formulation and consultation to contribute to the care plans and management of service users currently being treated on the ward or in CRHTT.
- As a team member both of the psychological therapies acute care team and the ward MDT, the post-holder will be expected to work collaboratively, and with MDT members including the provision of joint assessments with Consultant Psychiatrists and joint working with other members of the team.
- The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
- The post-holder will supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by attached doctoral trainees and supervise psychologically driven treatment interventions by other members of the MDT.
- The post-holder will provide training, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team, who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- The post-holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within the service/team.
- The post-holder will utilize skills for research and audit and contribute to policy and service development, in relation to the Psychological Therapies provision and in collaboration with the borough specific acute care services.
Person specification
Qualification and Registration
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical 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.
- Eligibility for Chartered Status with BPS
- Registered with HCPC as a psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or equivalent
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- • Competency in neuropsychological assessments.
- • 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
- • An ability to use and demonstrate psychological model-based formulations as part of clinical and care management planning
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. PTSD, psychosis, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Experience, including in the NHS, of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community/teams, primary care and in patient and day settings.
- • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- • Experience of working as a fully integrated MD team member
- • Multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing Risk management plans and supporting care of service users.
- • Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- • Experience of working systemically with MDT to promote quality and better outcomes for service users.
- • Experience of running a range of groups/workshops /courses for service users with psychosis and their carers.
- • Experience of supporting reflective practice
- • Experience of participating in or supporting post-incident support
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- • An enthusiasm and commitment to the psychological treatment of those in the acute care pathway
- • Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- • 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
- • Ability to demonstrate Trust Values
Desirable criteria
- • A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- • 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
- • IT skills including e-mail, word processing and basic data base.
Desirable criteria
- • Personal experience of mental health problems.
- • Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- • Ability to support MDT members in the provision of psychologically driven interventions
- • Interest and ability to contribute to service development
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
- Michelle Durant
- Job title
- Urgent Care & CRHTT Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087024031
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