Clinical / Counselling Psychologist | 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an enthusiastic highly skilled Clinical Psychologist with an interest in inpatient and day service work to join the NCL commissioned CAMHS Inpatient Service based at Edgware Hospital. The North London Partnership CAMHS division is going through an exciting transformation, and this is an opportunity to contribute to change and implementation a trauma informed approach in these services. The division is in the process of implementing service transformation using the THRIVE framework of system change. This post is an exciting opportunity not only to utilise a range of clinical skills while working with young people and complex systems, but also to be actively involved in supervision and overall service development. They will work closely with the allied health professional and nursing teams to provide high quality care. The Beacon Centre CAMHS Service delivers highly intensive multidisciplinary Inpatient care to young people who are displaying high risk and Acuity of Emotional dysregulation and Mental Illness, supporting young people and their families in the NCL area. The Beacon Day Centre aims to shorten the length of inpatient admissions providing best outcomes for young people in a least disruptive way by supporting links to Community and providing meaningful structure. Clinical

• 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.
• To plan and implement 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 of proven efficacy.
• To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
Teaching, training, and supervision
• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
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. 1. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 1. We will offergreat placesto work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 1. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. In order tomeet the needs of the Trust you may berequiredfrom time to time to work atdifferent locationsto your normal place of work. This may mean that youare required towork at any location that fall underBarnet,Camden, Enfield,Haringeyor 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. Please see attached JD. and person specification for further details or you can contact the service manager details below to discuss.