Intensive Psychosis Services 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Type: Trainee
Location: Islington, N7 8US

Description:

A Vacancy at North London NHS Foundation Trust.

The post-holder will lead on psychological provision within Islington Community Rehab Team and Islington Assertive Outreach Team, providing extended assessments, formulations and psychological therapies (individual and group) to those presenting with psychosis and other severe mental health, physical health and social needs. The post-holder will also provide consultation, reflective practice, psychological support and training to colleagues from the MDTs and partner agencies, and supervision and management as required to other psychological staff in the teams.

The post-holder will act as a fully integrated member of the team, leading on highly specialist psychological provision to service users with psychosis and co-occuring complex needs, and their families, with the aims of supporting recovery, promoting mental and physical wellbeing and optimise independence and social inclusion.

You would work directly with individuals, groups and families from a wide range of diverse backgrounds, providing tailored assessment, formulation, consultation and interventions for psychosis, bipolar and co-occuring psychological difficulties such as trauma. You would work closely with MDT colleagues and other agencies to provide psychologically informed care, through joint working, training, consultation, supervision and reflective practice. You would also have opportunities to work creatively and innovatively and undertake service development, service evaluation, quality improvement (QI) and research. You would be expected to practice as a senior independent clinician and work autonomously within professional guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, supervising and managing other psychological staff in the team as required.

Please contact us to discuss any request in variation to the advertised hours, including the potential of additional sessions to create a full-time role. Please also get in touch with any other enquiries about the role: we welcome hearing from you.

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..

1. JOB SUMMARY

The Islington Community Rehabilitation Team (ICRT)and Islington Assertive Outreach Team (IAOT)provide amultidisciplinary mental healthservice for adults withpsychosis and co-occurringcomplex mental health, physical health and social needs. ICRT works with service usersplaced inmental healthresidential serviceswithinthe borough ofIslington, and theservicehas a strong emphasis onsupporting the Rehabilitation Pathway, byfacilitating successful discharge of service users to the community, maintainingcommunityplacements and supportingtransitionsto more independent living.IAOT works with service users who may have had difficulties engaging with services and/or multiple hospital admissions, andthe teamis committed to working withindividual recovery goals, enhancing wellbeing and providingadditional support in crisis.

The post holder willlead on psychological provisionwithin theICRTand IAOT.They will provide high quality and highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment,working autonomouslyas the senior team psychologist,within professional guidelinesand to the overall framework of the services’ policies and procedures. The post holder will offerstaffconsultation to aid formulation, diagnosis and psychological care planning, including the management of challenging and risk behaviours, toICRTcolleagueswithinthe Trust andto other providers elsewhere.They will providestaff teamreflective spaceandstaff support.

The post holder will supervise / manage trainee clinical psychologists and offer supervisionand line managementwhere appropriate,topractitioner, associateandassistant psychologistsof a lower band. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development/quality improvement.

RELATIONSHIPS/COMMUNICATIONS

The post holder is expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members characterised bythe NLFT Trust Values andtrust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication.

Internal Relationships

The postholder will work closely with the following:

Colleagues and co-workers in the ICRTand IAOT

Colleagues working withinmental healthservices within the Trust and third sector providers

Colleagues working within the Local Authority.

Community PsychosisPsychology colleaguesandother psychology colleagues across the North London NHS Foundation Trust

External Relationships

The post holder will work closely with:

UniversityDClinPsytraining courses

Other NHS organizations

Local Authorities

1. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

3.1 Financial responsibility

The post holder will hold no financial responsibilities.

3.2Responsibility for Human Resources

To provide professional and clinical supervision to trainee psychologists on placement and jointly line manage with the relevantDClinPsyUniversities.

To provide professional and clinical supervision to other psychologists of a lower grade includingclinicalassociates in psychologyandassistant psychologists where appropriate.

To provide specialist consultation, training and supervision, where appropriate, to other health and social care staff working withinNLFTMental Healthservices.

To provideteaching and training regarding the psychological needs ofthe target populationto other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

To provide informal and appropriate spaces for staffincludingtreatment planning,case formulation and including management of challenging behaviour and risk behaviour, staff reflective practice and staff consultation

3.3 Responsibility for Administration

To screen psychology referralsfrom colleagues and community units

To plan and organise their own workload.

To ensure that all clinical and other related records are kept up to date in line withTrust policy.

3.4 Responsibility for IT and Digital Systems/Services

To advise on adaptations needed to support service users making use of remote IT and digital systems used in their care.

1. CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

To work as a senior clinician within the service, providing an advanced level of psychological expertise in assessment advice and treatment of highly complexservice users.

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.

To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referredservice userswith a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours.

To provide specialised psychological treatmentto relatives and carers when appropriate

To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment ofservice userswith complex needs

To carry out direct and indirect risk assessments and management plans in line with MDT care planning.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment and treatment in accordance with policies of the service.

To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users, who may have highly complex needs and exhibit challenging behaviours.

To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to service users.

1. OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

The postholder will be responsible for the delivery of psychological assessment and treatment, and ensure that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.

1. POLICY / SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

To contribute to the development of the service.

To lead on the development and provision of psychology services

1. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Utilise evidence-based literature and research to supportevidence basedpractice in individual, family and group work and work with other team members.

Undertake appropriate research and provide research support to other staff undertaking research.

To lead on, participate in and contribute to clinical audit, QI and service evaluation with colleagues within the service, to help evaluate and improve service provision, proposing changes to working practice and procedures fortheirown work area as required.

1. GENERAL

All staff are responsible for theircontinual compliance with CQC standards and outcomes.

The postholder must be aware of, and work in line with, the Trust’s Safeguarding Adults and Children procedures.

Receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical or counselling psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues as indicated and negotiated with line manager.

Participate in an agreed programme of training and continuing professional development and maintain an active engagement with current developments in psychological practice in areas related to the post.

Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and service user group.

To undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of the post, as may be agreed with Lead psychologists and other Divisional leads.

1. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

All staff are required to be appraised by their line managers at least once a year, following the first year in service,at a personal development review meeting where progress made over the last year is discussed and agreed. Focus on the following year’s departmental and personal objectives will be identified, discussed and agreed. Where necessary, help and support will be provided and development opportunities agreed in line with service provision and knowledge and skills competency framework.

This advert closes on Thursday 8 May 2025

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