Clinical / Counselling Psychologist or Systemic Family Therapist inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 12 JUN 2024

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


We are looking to recruit an energetic and enterprising Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist/Systemic Family Therapist (with a core mental health qualification) to work in the Haringey Psychosis Psychological Therapies Pathway. The post will be split across the Haringey East Locality Team (0.6 wte) and the Wellbeing & Recovery Team ( 0.4 wte). The Haringey Psychosis Psychological Therapies Pathway is an innovative and supportive team of psychologists, psychotherapists and systemic family therapists delivering psychological therapies to people with a primary diagnosis of psychosis within a range of adult community mental health teams in the borough.


Main duties of the job


The main duties of the post are to provide specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users within the Psychosis Pathway; to support the Pathway Lead in ensuring the effective functioning of the Psychosis Pathway and the provision of specialist clinical supervision arrangements for colleagues as required; to maintain a clinical role within the East Locality and Wellbeing & Recovery teams, formulating and implementing appropriate treatment plans within the clinical model of the service; to liaise with other professionals to contribute to the establishment of continuity of care across the services; to offer specialist clinical supervision to colleagues as well as expert advice and teaching to other professionals; to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.


Working for our organisation


BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. We are rated as 'Good' overall by the CQC. We have recently joined forces with Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust to form the North London Mental Health Partnership with the ambition to offer cutting-edge local, preventative,
co-produced, person-centred mental health and wellbeing support to everyone in North London.

The Haringey Psychosis Psychological Therapies Pathway is part of the wider Haringey Adult Psychological Therapies Service. There are several specialist services and highly experienced supervisors within this service and there will be opportunities for the successful applicant to develop their skills in working with other client groups and models according to their interest, such as cPTSD, PD, CAT, Psychoanalytic, Group Analytic, Open Dialogue, Systemic Group Supervision and CBT. Psychological Therapists have access to CPD opportunities both within and outside of the Trust.

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.


Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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  Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
  

Person specification



EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS



Essential criteria

• Candidate has relevant qualification and professional registration

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE



Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care 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, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Multi-disciplinary team working and involvement in developing Risk management plans and supporting care of service users.
• Experience of working as a fully integrated MD team member.
• Completion of at least two years postqualification supervised clinical experience with the related client group

Desirable criteria

• Experience of developing therapeutic approaches and treatment programmes in response to patient need.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES



Essential criteria

• An ability to formulate and provide treatment within one main psychological model and the experience and knowledge of at least two other approaches to psychological intervention.
• Skills in psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• An ability to use and demonstrate psychological model based formulations as part of clinical and care management planning

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

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 (PDF, 272.4KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 263.2KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)