Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Barnet AOT

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, To provide a specialist clinical psychology service to clients served by the Barnet CAMHS Assertive Outreach Team, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy to clients and offering advice, consultation and supervision on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post holder will provide advice and consultation to non-psychologists in the service on psychological interventions, for example, being involved in delivering a CBT supervision group.
The post holder will provide clinical supervision to trainee and less experienced psychologists and non-psychologists.
The post holder will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence based and evidence-informed care pathways., The post holder will be based in the Barnet CAMHS team premises at Holly Oak, Edgware Community Hospital with other team members and they will have access to support from the team administrators.
The work is with children, young people and families who present with high risk to themselves and/or others and who will be difficult to engage in standard outpatient services. The team will provide rapid, flexible and accessible services to address urgent and acute problems facing children and young people.
A capacity to work with emotionally intense, demanding and challenging situations is needed. Home visits and outreach work is the main part of the work.
The post holder will need to employ frequent and intense concentration during their work.
On occasions the post holder may be required to use their own vehicle to attend meetings or as part of the therapeutic process and outreach offer.
There is a need to use effective and efficient keyboard skills in the recording of clinical information and in communicating with colleagues.