Core team 8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

The post-holder will be part of the Camden Core Team providing extended assessments, formulations and brief interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems. Main duties of the job The aim of the service is to increase the number of people whose mental health support is appropriately managed in line with the community framework for mental health using a population health approach. The post-holder will act as a fully integrated member of the team providing a specialist psychological perspective to support the transformation and development of the service. The post-holder will work as part of a service embedded in local GP practices, working with multi-disciplinary colleagues to increase psychologically and trauma informed practice as well as offer evidence based interventions. The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment using evidence based, NICE recommended interventions and will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.,

• Provide a comprehensive psychology service as an integrated part of the Camden Core Team
• Provide triage and specialist psychological assessment, formulation, consultation and interventions particularly for people with complex emotional needs, including personality disorder and complex trauma
• Provide direct clinical input and supervision of individual, group or team brief interventions for complex emotional needs
• Assist GPs with diagnosis, management plans, risk assessments, crisis plans and self-help plans for service users with complex common mental health problems and stable severe mental health presentations who are being managed exclusively in primary car
• Work with Core Team colleagues to develop a collaborative care model for service users with complex physical and emotional difficulties, including those with complex emotional needs, Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) and Long-Term Conditions (LTC
• Play a key role in implementing improved linkage and interface between Core and Intensive Teams
• Provide advice and support to network teams on the management of service users who have been stepped down from secondary care / intensive community mental health service
• Support primary care staff in their management and treatment of service users through case discussions, joint consultations and bespoke training.
• Maintain effective communication with GP, primary care staff, service users and their carers;
• Provide clinical input, where necessary, to multi-disciplinary case conferencing around complex presentations being managed solely in primary care within the team and as part of the wider integrated health and care networks.
• Engage with local service user participation models.
• Work within the MDT promoting respect for all professional groups and focusing upon coherent and integrated teamwork.
• Provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment offered and undertaken with service users.
• Manage and supervise psychologists, clinical associates, assistants, apprentices and other staff as appropriate, including more junior clinical / counselling psychologists
• To offer teaching, training and undertake appropriate research, audits and service evaluations to support service delivery and development.
  
  Essential
• Doctoral level training (or equivalent) in clinical / counselling psychology
• HCPC registration
Experience Essential
• Experience of multi-model psychological assessment, formulation and intervention across levels of complexity and settings
• Experience of interventions for people with complex emotional needs - including personality disorder and complex trauma.
• Experience of providing supervision
Desirable
• Experience of MDT working and consultation
• Extensive post-doctoral experience of working with complex mental health presentations
  
  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.
  
  We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups..