Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist to join NLFT's Older Adult Psychology Team. This is part-time Band 7 post working on our Older Adult Inpatient Wards and in Islington Services for Ageing and Mental Health (SAMH) Community Mental Health Team. You will be part of a large Older Adult psychology service comprised of Clinical, Counselling and Assistant Psychologists.
Special interests in the service include Systemic Psychotherapy, EMDR, ACT, working with carers and research. . We welcome applications from people who are enthusiastic about working with older people, including those qualifying in 2026. This post will be capped at 25 applicants.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work part-time in NLFT's Older Adult Psychology service, dividing their time between the in-patient wards and our Community Mental Health Team in Islington.On the inpatient wards they will provide psychological assessment and treatment to patients with dementia and other mental health conditions.
They will offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to referrers, non-psychologist team colleagues and other professional and non-professional carers. They will work alongside our other inpatient Clinical Psychologists. In Islington SAMH CMHT the postholder will work alongside other psychologists and provide a psychology service for clients under this team.
This will include psychological assessment and treatment of older people with severe and enduring mental health needs and / or dementia. They will work with patients, their families, carers and systems though individual work, group work and indirect work. They will offer advice, consultation on client's psychological care to referrers, MDT colleagues and non-professional carers.
The role is likely to included opportunities for delivering training and contributing to the supervision of assistant psychologists and trainees working in the service as appropriate.
About us
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: We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. Why NLFT? We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities. We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme Excellent internal staff network In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or 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.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for full details of the post and outline of main responsibilities. We are happy to speak with any interested candidates who would like to know more
Person Specification
Qualifications · Essential
Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Experience /
Knowledge · Essential
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity Experience of working with older people with mental or physical health needs
Desirable
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and intervention/treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, residential care homes and in-patient settings Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges Experience of working with people with dementia
Skills · Essential
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently
Desirable
Skills in running Reflective Practice or similar
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
