Assistant Psychologist - Barnet CAMHS

Are you looking for a new challenge? Would you like to join a warm, welcoming and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, person-centered and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties?
If so, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to work within the Barnet CAMHS Generic Team based across the Holly Oak Clinic in Edgware Community Hospital and the Oak Lane Clinic in East Finchley.
Barnet CAMHS prides itself in working from a multi-disciplinary approach, informed and embedded within the iThrive Framework. There is a strong focus on further developing clinician's skillsets and learning from each other. We offer high-quality individual and group supervision with a Clinical Psychologist, as well as space for reflective practice. There are many CPD opportunities within the team and across BEH.
Please note if a sufficient number of applications are received then the vacancy may close early., The postholder will be a psychology graduate (with a 2:1 or higher degree and graduate basis for registration with the British Psychological Society).
We are looking for someone who has skills in working with young people experiencing mental health difficulties, working within a multidisciplinary team. Candidates for the role would ideally have some prior experience of working with young people with diagnoses of autism and/or ADHD, within a CAMHS setting.
There will be opportunities to co-facilitate a range of group interventions and coproduction groups, as well as offering individual therapeutic support to young people and their parents/carers. There will be a key role in administering, analysing and feeding back on outcome measures and writing clinical reports. The post holders will also support the team in coordinating our waiting lists and completing service level audit projects as part of quality and development initiatives. Responsibilities will also include liaison with allied professionals, contributing to the sharing of psychological knowledge and case discussion.
The role will require flexibility and a capacity to work responsively in a variety of situations, working closely with colleagues and other agencies involved in our service users' care.

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, North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.