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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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT) in Haringey CAMHS. The AOT work with young people, aged 12-18, presenting with acute mental health needs (including severe depression and anxiety, trauma, psychosis) and/or significant levels of risk to self or others.

Haringey AOT are a multidisciplinary team, comprising of Psychiatry, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Family Therapy and other CAMHS Clinicians. The team offer intensive contact for a period of time, to assess and support young people and their parents/carers manage their mental health needs and reduce risk taking behaviour. Clinicians in the AOT work closely with parents and carers, and with the network of connected professionals, including, schools, children’s services and other mental health providers, to promote a young person’s emotional wellbeing, safety and recovery.

The post holder will offer specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence informed interventions to young people and their parents and carers, in a range of community settings or the clinic, as the need requires. In addition, you will offer psychologically informed advice and consultation to the AOT multi-disciplinary team meetings, to CAMHS colleagues to support their clinical work and to professionals in partner agencies,

Main duties of the job

·       To undertake initial assessments as appropriate, including risk assessment and risk management plans in conjunction with the team, involving other agencies or services as

·       appropriate to ensure patient safety, in the midst of crisis’ or emergency.

·       To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. These will include systemic methodologies, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.

·       To make skilled evaluations to employ research based models in order to formulate and implement psychological treatment with individuals, couples, families and carers in the context of the professional and wider social systems.

·       To implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for Individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, informed by different exploratory models. And maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

Working for our 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 Harringay 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.