Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of 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 look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership, We are excited to offer the opportunity of joining our innovative, trauma led Barnet Adult Psychology service as a Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. We are looking to recruit to a full time post (37.5 hours per week).
We serve diverse communities across Barnet providing assessment and treatment to adults with moderate to severe, and highly complex mental health, and who predominantly struggle with complex trauma. We specialise in trauma-based interventions including EMDR and NET, alongside interventions focused on complex emotional needs and wider mental health, including CAT, Schema-Focused, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy, and a range of CBT and third-wave interventions. Psychological Therapists have access to specialist supervision and training to complement their working, and we are committed to a high standard of CPD.
In your role you will also work into the Barnet Core Community Mental Health Teams and alongside voluntary sector partners.
As part of the North London Mental Health Partnership, our services are based around the premise of not "what is the matter with you" but "what matters to you". Our interventions are designed to enable our service users to identify their pathway in life and to support them to find a sustainable way to stay on it, supporting a recovered function, working with them and the people in their lives that are important to them., We are seeking a clinical/counselling psychologist who would benefit in the role from having a background of working with complex trauma and PTSD.
The core features of this role include:
1. Providing psychological assessment, formulation, treatment planning, and implementation of psychological interventions for services users.
2. Providing specialist psychological input through consultation, supervision and professionals meetings to other professionals contributing directly to the clients' care plan, and to wider agencies serving our client groups.
3. Providing and receiving teaching, training, and supervision.
4. Ongoing research and service evaluation.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for detail description of duties., 1. 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 including psychological and neuropsychological 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.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To be noted:
+ This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.