Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Barnet HTT & Beacon Day Service

To provide a specialist clinicalpsychology service to clients served by theNorth Central London Home Treatment Team, and Beacon Day Service. This will includeproviding psychological assessment and short term individual and group therapy to clients, including risk assessment and management. To be 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 may provide clinical supervision to assistant 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. This may include training or teaching of other staff.

The post holder will be based between St Ann's and Edgware Community Hospital as the post is split between two linked but seperate teams, both covering patients from the North Central London area.

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 multidisciplinary teams provide rapid, flexible and accessible services to address urgent and acute problems facing children and young people, by providing a 'hospital from home' approach and a therapeutic day service.

You will be work therapeutically with young people, and parents/carers, in both individual and group settings. There will also be a role for supporting psychological thinking within the multi-disciplinary team via team meetings, consultation, case discussion and teaching.

A capacity to work with emotionally intense, demanding and challenging situations is needed. Home or hospital visits are part of the work for the Home Treatment Team, whereas the Day Service is static.

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 their clinical role.

There is a need to use effective and efficient keyboard skills in the recording of clinical information and in communicating with colleagues.

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.

BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which is the lead provider of forensic mental health services; that managed the devolved New Models of care budget, it delivers MH care across some of the prisons, and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury.