Opportunities for Professional Development, The role includes a structured process for assessing core competencies, which fosters ongoing professional growth and skill enhancement.
Collaborative Work Environment, The position involves working within a multidisciplinary team, promoting collaborative practices and shared learning.
Specialized Client Interactions, The job allows for providing specialist assessments and interventions to clients, making a significant impact on their mental health and well-being.
Diverse Working Locations, Employees may have the opportunity to work across different locations within the NHS Trust, enhancing their experience and adaptability.
Career Advancement Potential, Achieving core competencies can lead to promotion from Band 7 to Band 8a, offering clear career progression.
Engagement with Young People, The role focuses on children and adolescents, allowing practitioners to make a positive difference in the lives of younger populations and their families.
Research and Quality Improvement, The position may include opportunities to undertake quality improvement projects, enhancing the efficacy of services provided.
Exciting Opportunity for a Psychologist in Enfield!
Join the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as a compassionate and skilled psychologist in Enfield, where you will play a pivotal role in supporting young people facing mental health challenges. Your expertise will shine as you conduct specialist assessments, create intervention plans through shared decision-making, and provide vital support not just to clients but also to their families and carers. With a commitment to personal development, you'll have the chance to advance from Band 7 to Band 8a as you demonstrate your competencies and make a real difference in the lives of others.
This is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to be part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team dedicated to making mental health care accessible and effective. In this role, you will lead clinical staff, mentor trainees, and contribute to the improvement of services within our ever-growing mental health partnership in North London. If you’re registered with the Health Professions Council and have a background in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, we would love to hear from you! Embrace the chance to not only grow professionally but to embody the caring spirit that is essential in the field of mental health.
Opportunities for Professional Development, The role includes a structured process for assessing core competencies, which fosters ongoing professional growth and skill enhancement.
Collaborative Work Environment, The position involves working within a multidisciplinary team, promoting collaborative practices and shared learning.
Specialized Client Interactions, The job allows for providing specialist assessments and interventions to clients, making a significant impact on their mental health and well-being.
Diverse Working Locations, Employees may have the opportunity to work across different locations within the NHS Trust, enhancing their experience and adaptability.
Career Advancement Potential, Achieving core competencies can lead to promotion from Band 7 to Band 8a, offering clear career progression.
Engagement with Young People, The role focuses on children and adolescents, allowing practitioners to make a positive difference in the lives of younger populations and their families.
Research and Quality Improvement, The position may include opportunities to undertake quality improvement projects, enhancing the efficacy of services provided.
Job Summary
The core competencies will be evaluated at the start of the employment; the line manager/supervisor will identify and support learning opportunities of the post holder. Each competency will be viewed as a development goal. Assessment will be done through observation of clinical practice, feedback from members of the MDT, patients and families, discussion, and constructive feedback. The postholder have to be able to provide evidence of how they achieved each domain. Once all core competencies are achieved to their development goal the postholder may be moved from band 7 to band 8a. Further details of this process will be shared with the postholder at the start of their employment and via the Core Competencies document.
Main duties of the job
Provision of specialist assessments with clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, 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, when and where appropriate.
Formulation and implementation of plans with shared decision making for intervention and/or management of young person's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
Implementation of a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, including adjusting and refining the formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Evaluation and decisions making about intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
About Us
The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth 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.
Date posted
March 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£51,883 to £58,544 a year Per Annum including HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
306-BEH-2296-B
Job locations
Bay Tree House
Christchurch Close
Enfield
EN2 6NZ
Job Description
Job responsibilities
As part of job planning, the staff member would be supported to carry out the following roles:
Line Management of appropriately identified clinical staff.
Clinical/ professional supervision and appraisal of identified clinical staff.
Supporting the induction of new staff and trainees.
Carrying out investigations and presenting findings.
Responsibilities
Job description Job responsibilities
As part of job planning, the staff member would be supported to carry out the following roles:
Line Management of appropriately identified clinical staff.
Clinical/ professional supervision and appraisal of identified clinical staff.
Supporting the induction of new staff and trainees.
Carrying out investigations and presenting findings.
Person Specification
General Essential
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 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal recor
The core competencies will be evaluated at the start of the employment; the line manager/supervisor will identify and support learning opportunities of the post holder. Each competency will be viewed as a development goal. Assessment will be done through observation of clinical practice, feedback from members of the MDT, patients and families, discussion, and constructive feedback. The postholder have to be able to provide evidence of how they achieved each domain. Once all core competencies are achieved to their development goal the postholder may be moved from band 7 to band 8a. Further details of this process will be shared with the postholder at the start of their employment and via the Core Competencies document.
Main duties of the job
Provision of specialist assessments with clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, 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, when and where appropriate.
Formulation and implementation of plans with shared decision making for intervention and/or management of young person's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
Implementation of a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, including adjusting and refining the formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Evaluation and decisions making about intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
About Us
The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth 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.
Date posted
March 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£51,883 to £58,544 a year Per Annum including HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
306-BEH-2296-B
Job locations
Bay Tree House
Christchurch Close
Enfield
EN2 6NZ
Job Description
Job responsibilities
As part of job planning, the staff member would be supported to carry out the following roles:
Line Management of appropriately identified clinical staff.
Clinical/ professional supervision and appraisal of identified clinical staff.
Supporting the induction of new staff and trainees.
Carrying out investigations and presenting findings.
Responsibilities
Job description Job responsibilities
As part of job planning, the staff member would be supported to carry out the following roles:
Line Management of appropriately identified clinical staff.
Clinical/ professional supervision and appraisal of identified clinical staff.
Supporting the induction of new staff and trainees.
Carrying out investigations and presenting findings.
Person Specification
General Essential
- Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention
- Post-graduate up to doctoral level training in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy as accredited by the Association of Child Psychology (ACP), This includes an essential personal training therapy of at least three times a week for a minimum of three years.
- Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects
- Experience in carrying out ADOS-2 assessments for ASD
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
- Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention
- Post-graduate up to doctoral level training in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy as accredited by the Association of Child Psychology (ACP), This includes an essential personal training therapy of at least three times a week for a minimum of three years.
- Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects
- Experience in carrying out ADOS-2 assessments for ASD
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
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 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal recor
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