Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist inTottenham inTottenham PUBLISHED 29 MAY 2024
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The post holder will offer specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence informed interventions to young people and their parents and carers, in a range of community settings or the clinic, as the need requires.
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services. We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT) in Haringey CAMHS. The AOT work with young people, aged 12-18, presenting with acute mental health needs (including severe depression and anxiety, trauma, psychosis) and/or significant levels of risk to self or others.
Haringey AOT are a multidisciplinary team, comprising of Psychiatry, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Family Therapy and other CAMHS Clinicians. The team offer intensive contact for a period of time, to assess and support young people and their parents/carers manage their mental health needs and reduce risk taking behaviour. Clinicians in the AOT work closely with parents and carers, and with the network of connected professionals, including, schools, children's services and other mental health providers, to promote a young person's emotional wellbeing, safety and recovery.
The post holder will offer specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence informed interventions to young people and their parents and carers, in a range of community settings or the clinic, as the need requires. In addition, you will offer psychologically informed advice and consultation to the AOT multi-disciplinary team meetings, to CAMHS colleagues to support their clinical work and to professionals in partner agencies,
Main duties of the job
• To undertake initial assessments as appropriate, including risk assessment and risk management plans in conjunction with the team, involving other agencies or services as
• appropriate to ensure patient safety, in the midst of crisis' or emergency.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. These will include systemic methodologies, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
• To make skilled evaluations to employ research based models in order to formulate and implement psychological treatment with individuals, couples, families and carers in the context of the professional and wider social systems.
• To implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for Individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, informed by different exploratory models. And maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Working for our organisation
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.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both
• theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical
• and developmental processes that have shaped the individuals, family
• or group.
• • To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment
• and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based
• care plans, including communication with the referral agent and others involved in
• care.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other
• professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment
• plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to
• provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment
• and risk management.
• To communicate and give feedback in a skilled and sensitive manner, information
• concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their
• care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni-and multidisciplinary care.
• To provide advice, guidance and consultation to peer and junior professionals
• within the service, both individually, and by attendance at team referral and review
• meetings.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPSRegistration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Training in a subject/skill relevant to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (0-18 years)
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in using a wide variety of evidencebased psychological theory, therapy protocols and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting. Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management of a wide variety of mental health presentations. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Extensive understanding of child development, mental health difficulties and psychosocial influences, including trauma and attachment. Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships and maintain professional boundaries. Advanced skills in professional supervision and consultation including to multi-disciplinary and multiagency colleagues. Ability to complete psychological assessment, intervention and care plans to meet the needs of clients. Ability to apply learning in practice.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and adolescents in CAMHS or equivalent Services. Experience of offering and knowledge and understanding of the need to offer evidence-based therapy protocols for range of common and less common presentations in all levels of severity. Experience in managing and treating clients with a risk of self-harm, suicide and/or substance misuse. Experience of specialist psychological assessment including specifically assessments for neurodevelopmental conditions such as ASD and ADHD Experience in the application of risk assessment, including self-harm and suicidality, and intervention with both individuals and their families, and safeguarding procedures in this area. Previous experience of supervising clinicians and in operational leadership functions.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first
50
applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
- JD (PDF, 336.4KB)
- Functional Req (PDF, 261.8KB)
- Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT) in Haringey CAMHS. The AOT work with young people, aged 12-18, presenting with acute mental health needs (including severe depression and anxiety, trauma, psychosis) and/or significant levels of risk to self or others.
Haringey AOT are a multidisciplinary team, comprising of Psychiatry, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Family Therapy and other CAMHS Clinicians. The team offer intensive contact for a period of time, to assess and support young people and their parents/carers manage their mental health needs and reduce risk taking behaviour. Clinicians in the AOT work closely with parents and carers, and with the network of connected professionals, including, schools, children's services and other mental health providers, to promote a young person's emotional wellbeing, safety and recovery.
The post holder will offer specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence informed interventions to young people and their parents and carers, in a range of community settings or the clinic, as the need requires. In addition, you will offer psychologically informed advice and consultation to the AOT multi-disciplinary team meetings, to CAMHS colleagues to support their clinical work and to professionals in partner agencies,
Main duties of the job
• To undertake initial assessments as appropriate, including risk assessment and risk management plans in conjunction with the team, involving other agencies or services as
• appropriate to ensure patient safety, in the midst of crisis' or emergency.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. These will include systemic methodologies, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
• To make skilled evaluations to employ research based models in order to formulate and implement psychological treatment with individuals, couples, families and carers in the context of the professional and wider social systems.
• To implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for Individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, informed by different exploratory models. And maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Working for our organisation
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.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both
• theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical
• and developmental processes that have shaped the individuals, family
• or group.
• • To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment
• and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based
• care plans, including communication with the referral agent and others involved in
• care.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other
• professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment
• plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to
• provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment
• and risk management.
• To communicate and give feedback in a skilled and sensitive manner, information
• concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their
• care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni-and multidisciplinary care.
• To provide advice, guidance and consultation to peer and junior professionals
• within the service, both individually, and by attendance at team referral and review
• meetings.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first
50
applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT) in Haringey CAMHS. The AOT work with young people, aged 12-18, presenting with acute mental health needs (including severe depression and anxiety, trauma, psychosis) and/or significant levels of risk to self or others.
Haringey AOT are a multidisciplinary team, comprising of Psychiatry, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Family Therapy and other CAMHS Clinicians. The team offer intensive contact for a period of time, to assess and support young people and their parents/carers manage their mental health needs and reduce risk taking behaviour. Clinicians in the AOT work closely with parents and carers, and with the network of connected professionals, including, schools, children's services and other mental health providers, to promote a young person's emotional wellbeing, safety and recovery.
The post holder will offer specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence informed interventions to young people and their parents and carers, in a range of community settings or the clinic, as the need requires. In addition, you will offer psychologically informed advice and consultation to the AOT multi-disciplinary team meetings, to CAMHS colleagues to support their clinical work and to professionals in partner agencies,
Main duties of the job
• To undertake initial assessments as appropriate, including risk assessment and risk management plans in conjunction with the team, involving other agencies or services as
• appropriate to ensure patient safety, in the midst of crisis' or emergency.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. These will include systemic methodologies, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
• To make skilled evaluations to employ research based models in order to formulate and implement psychological treatment with individuals, couples, families and carers in the context of the professional and wider social systems.
• To implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for Individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, informed by different exploratory models. And maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Working for our organisation
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.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both
• theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical
• and developmental processes that have shaped the individuals, family
• or group.
• • To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment
• and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based
• care plans, including communication with the referral agent and others involved in
• care.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other
• professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment
• plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to
• provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment
• and risk management.
• To communicate and give feedback in a skilled and sensitive manner, information
• concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their
• care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni-and multidisciplinary care.
• To provide advice, guidance and consultation to peer and junior professionals
• within the service, both individually, and by attendance at team referral and review
• meetings.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPSRegistration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Training in a subject/skill relevant to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (0-18 years)
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in using a wide variety of evidencebased psychological theory, therapy protocols and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting. Advanced skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management of a wide variety of mental health presentations. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical &/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Extensive understanding of child development, mental health difficulties and psychosocial influences, including trauma and attachment. Ability to develop good therapeutic relationships and maintain professional boundaries. Advanced skills in professional supervision and consultation including to multi-disciplinary and multiagency colleagues. Ability to complete psychological assessment, intervention and care plans to meet the needs of clients. Ability to apply learning in practice.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and adolescents in CAMHS or equivalent Services. Experience of offering and knowledge and understanding of the need to offer evidence-based therapy protocols for range of common and less common presentations in all levels of severity. Experience in managing and treating clients with a risk of self-harm, suicide and/or substance misuse. Experience of specialist psychological assessment including specifically assessments for neurodevelopmental conditions such as ASD and ADHD Experience in the application of risk assessment, including self-harm and suicidality, and intervention with both individuals and their families, and safeguarding procedures in this area. Previous experience of supervising clinicians and in operational leadership functions.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first
50
applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
- JD (PDF, 336.4KB)
- Functional Req (PDF, 261.8KB)
- Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)
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