Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Enfield Older People's Psychology Service, to work as part of various multi-disciplinary teams across Enfield Older People Mental Health services within NLFT. This is a fixed part-time post (0.5 wte) to be based at Chase Farm Hospital site in Enfield.

The Enfield Older People's Psychology Service is a small, friendly and supportive, growing team of psychologists. We would very much welcome either a newly qualified or experienced clinician, who is highly motivated and has the necessary skills to work with Older People presenting with a range of issues, often with high levels of complexity, offering assessments and suitable interventions.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of the Enfield Older People's Psychology Service, providing a service across the Enfield Older People Mental Health services within NLFT. Offering assessments and interventions for older people referred by the CMHTs, Hawthorn Recovery Unit and inpatient wards. Comprehensive assessments will contribute to clinical formulations, to be shared within the MDT, and used to inform evidence-based interventions. In addition to offering assessments and clinical interventions, the post holder will liaise with MDTs, and provide support and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, professionals, and non-professional staff as necessary.

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

To provide psychological assessments of referred clients, using interview, formal psychometric, neuropsychological and other assessment methods as appropriate. To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients, and to provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.

To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

All clinical input will be in accordance with the values, objectives and operational policies of the Trust. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. When responding to a person in crisis, to do so in a considered, planned and safe manner alerting other agencies involved of the outcome as appropriate.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of care. To develop effective links with the range of agencies, statutory and non-statutory, involved in providing care and support to clients and families/support networks.

Advise service users, their carers and other agencies on the promotion of good mental health. This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

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

Skills · Essential

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

Experience · 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 including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting and establish constructive working relationships across services and care agencies.

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 neuropsychological assessments, particularly those relevant to working with dementia. Communication

Essential

Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

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).