Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Preceptorship inBarnet inBarnet PUBLISHED 14 JUN 2024
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By joining the older people's psychology service, you would be able to apply your experience in a versatile and creative way with the service, clients and colleagues.
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic psychologist interested in working with older people (over 65s) to join our cohesive and supportive psychology team that is fully integrated into the multidisciplinary Barnet Memory Service and Barnet Older Peoples Community Mental Health Teams with interests in CBT, ACT, MI, systemic, psychodynamic and neuropsychological work. This would suit someone experienced or newly qualified, who is interesting in a development/preceptorship post.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist who is keen to develop clinical work in a versatile and creative way, drawing on a range of models, to offer assessment, formulation, and interventions to those who are struggling with complex mental health difficulties, and those that are caring for and working with them. The successful applicant will have an interest in neuropsychology and dementia, as an important aspect of the BMS work is assisting with differential diagnosis and providing post-diagnostic intervention. We are committed to ensuring our service is open, accessible and fair, providing meaningful and effective psychological interventions to older people with complex needs and multiple co-morbidities including frailty and dementia. There will also be opportunities to develop leadership skills through quality improvement project work and to take on some supervision and teaching responsibilities.
By joining the older people's psychology service, you would be able to apply your experience in a versatile and creative way with the service, clients and colleagues. We are passionately committed to offering high quality care for older. Work pattern can be negotiated, and the Trust offers hybrid working to allow for the best work-life balance. There are opportunities to join psychological model specific peer supervision groups and diverse staff networks; we are keen to support a diverse workforce and support a sense of belonging at work.
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.
Why choose to join the 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.
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work together
- We keep things simple
- We empower
- We are proudly diverse
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a service user focused and evidence based high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients referred to Barnet Older People's Community Mental Health Teams and Barnet Memory Service, which includes the following.
• The provision of highly specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment and therapy for individual service users including those with complex mental health conditions, cognitive impairment and co-morbid physical health conditions, their carer's and their families.
• Leading on psychology input into BMS services, including aiding diagnostic assessment and the development and clinical supervision of delivering time limited post-diagnostic psychological interventions.
• Consultation, training and support for MDT colleagues working within CMHTs for Older People in Barnet, Barnet Memory Service and Springwell Day Services, including joint assessments, joint delivery of interventions and input to team meetings.
• Consultation, training and support for the wider systems and organisations providing care for our clients including the delivery of staff-cantered interventions in residential homes caring for older people with challenging behaviour.
• Professional skills to:
o Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the Service's policies and procedures
o Use core professional training for some or all of the following purposes as appropriate: research, undertake audit, and contribute to policy and service development.
• Supervision of clinical psychology colleagues including trainees and psychology assistant/s graduates as appropriate.
• To agree, in conjunction with the Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist and team managers, the appropriate utilisation of psychological resources to the teams.
• To contribute to the provision of team services and fulfilment of team priorities and objectives.
• The service recognises the importance of promoting social inclusion and approaches promoting recovery, wellbeing, personalisation and carers' needs assessments and interventions where appropriate.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Skills in group work.
- Skills in the delivery and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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 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
- Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges.
- Experience of providing supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable criteria
- Training in other therapies, such as systemic.
- Experience of neuropsychological assessments, particularly those relevant to working with dementia.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting and establish constructive working relationships across services and care agencies.
- Flexibility and versatility in order to work effectively with the wide range of individual needs encountered in a service for Older People
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
- Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 472.4KB)
- Person Specification (PDF, 72.4KB)
- Functional Requirements PDF (PDF, 178.7KB)
- Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic psychologist interested in working with older people (over 65s) to join our cohesive and supportive psychology team that is fully integrated into the multidisciplinary Barnet Memory Service and Barnet Older Peoples Community Mental Health Teams with interests in CBT, ACT, MI, systemic, psychodynamic and neuropsychological work. This would suit someone experienced or newly qualified, who is interesting in a development/preceptorship post.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist who is keen to develop clinical work in a versatile and creative way, drawing on a range of models, to offer assessment, formulation, and interventions to those who are struggling with complex mental health difficulties, and those that are caring for and working with them. The successful applicant will have an interest in neuropsychology and dementia, as an important aspect of the BMS work is assisting with differential diagnosis and providing post-diagnostic intervention. We are committed to ensuring our service is open, accessible and fair, providing meaningful and effective psychological interventions to older people with complex needs and multiple co-morbidities including frailty and dementia. There will also be opportunities to develop leadership skills through quality improvement project work and to take on some supervision and teaching responsibilities.
By joining the older people's psychology service, you would be able to apply your experience in a versatile and creative way with the service, clients and colleagues. We are passionately committed to offering high quality care for older. Work pattern can be negotiated, and the Trust offers hybrid working to allow for the best work-life balance. There are opportunities to join psychological model specific peer supervision groups and diverse staff networks; we are keen to support a diverse workforce and support a sense of belonging at work.
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.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a service user focused and evidence based high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients referred to Barnet Older People's Community Mental Health Teams and Barnet Memory Service, which includes the following.
• The provision of highly specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment and therapy for individual service users including those with complex mental health conditions, cognitive impairment and co-morbid physical health conditions, their carer's and their families.
• Leading on psychology input into BMS services, including aiding diagnostic assessment and the development and clinical supervision of delivering time limited post-diagnostic psychological interventions.
• Consultation, training and support for MDT colleagues working within CMHTs for Older People in Barnet, Barnet Memory Service and Springwell Day Services, including joint assessments, joint delivery of interventions and input to team meetings.
• Consultation, training and support for the wider systems and organisations providing care for our clients including the delivery of staff-cantered interventions in residential homes caring for older people with challenging behaviour.
• Professional skills to:
o Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the Service's policies and procedures
o Use core professional training for some or all of the following purposes as appropriate: research, undertake audit, and contribute to policy and service development.
• Supervision of clinical psychology colleagues including trainees and psychology assistant/s graduates as appropriate.
• To agree, in conjunction with the Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist and team managers, the appropriate utilisation of psychological resources to the teams.
• To contribute to the provision of team services and fulfilment of team priorities and objectives.
• The service recognises the importance of promoting social inclusion and approaches promoting recovery, wellbeing, personalisation and carers' needs assessments and interventions where appropriate.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Personal Qualities
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
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic psychologist interested in working with older people (over 65s) to join our cohesive and supportive psychology team that is fully integrated into the multidisciplinary Barnet Memory Service and Barnet Older Peoples Community Mental Health Teams with interests in CBT, ACT, MI, systemic, psychodynamic and neuropsychological work. This would suit someone experienced or newly qualified, who is interesting in a development/preceptorship post.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist who is keen to develop clinical work in a versatile and creative way, drawing on a range of models, to offer assessment, formulation, and interventions to those who are struggling with complex mental health difficulties, and those that are caring for and working with them. The successful applicant will have an interest in neuropsychology and dementia, as an important aspect of the BMS work is assisting with differential diagnosis and providing post-diagnostic intervention. We are committed to ensuring our service is open, accessible and fair, providing meaningful and effective psychological interventions to older people with complex needs and multiple co-morbidities including frailty and dementia. There will also be opportunities to develop leadership skills through quality improvement project work and to take on some supervision and teaching responsibilities.
By joining the older people's psychology service, you would be able to apply your experience in a versatile and creative way with the service, clients and colleagues. We are passionately committed to offering high quality care for older. Work pattern can be negotiated, and the Trust offers hybrid working to allow for the best work-life balance. There are opportunities to join psychological model specific peer supervision groups and diverse staff networks; we are keen to support a diverse workforce and support a sense of belonging at work.
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.
Why choose to join the 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.
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work together
- We keep things simple
- We empower
- We are proudly diverse
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a service user focused and evidence based high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients referred to Barnet Older People's Community Mental Health Teams and Barnet Memory Service, which includes the following.
• The provision of highly specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment and therapy for individual service users including those with complex mental health conditions, cognitive impairment and co-morbid physical health conditions, their carer's and their families.
• Leading on psychology input into BMS services, including aiding diagnostic assessment and the development and clinical supervision of delivering time limited post-diagnostic psychological interventions.
• Consultation, training and support for MDT colleagues working within CMHTs for Older People in Barnet, Barnet Memory Service and Springwell Day Services, including joint assessments, joint delivery of interventions and input to team meetings.
• Consultation, training and support for the wider systems and organisations providing care for our clients including the delivery of staff-cantered interventions in residential homes caring for older people with challenging behaviour.
• Professional skills to:
o Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the Service's policies and procedures
o Use core professional training for some or all of the following purposes as appropriate: research, undertake audit, and contribute to policy and service development.
• Supervision of clinical psychology colleagues including trainees and psychology assistant/s graduates as appropriate.
• To agree, in conjunction with the Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist and team managers, the appropriate utilisation of psychological resources to the teams.
• To contribute to the provision of team services and fulfilment of team priorities and objectives.
• The service recognises the importance of promoting social inclusion and approaches promoting recovery, wellbeing, personalisation and carers' needs assessments and interventions where appropriate.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Skills in group work.
- Skills in the delivery and interpretation of neuropsychological assessments.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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 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
- Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges.
- Experience of providing supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable criteria
- Training in other therapies, such as systemic.
- Experience of neuropsychological assessments, particularly those relevant to working with dementia.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting and establish constructive working relationships across services and care agencies.
- Flexibility and versatility in order to work effectively with the wide range of individual needs encountered in a service for Older People
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
- Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 472.4KB)
- Person Specification (PDF, 72.4KB)
- Functional Requirements PDF (PDF, 178.7KB)
- Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)
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