Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Barnet HTT & Beacon Day Service
London Borough of Haringey, England, gb
Job overview
To provide a specialist clinical psychology service to clients served by the North Central London Home Treatment Team, and Beacon Day Service. This will include providing psychological assessment and short term individual and group therapy to clients, including risk assessment and management. To be offering advice, consultation and supervision on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post holder may provide clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and non-psychologists.
The post holder will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence based and evidence-informed care pathways. This may include training or teaching of other staff.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be based between St Ann's and Edgware Community Hospital as the post is split between two linked but seperate teams, both covering patients from the North Central London area.
The work is with children, young people and families who present with high risk to themselves and/or others and who will be difficult to engage in standard outpatient services. The multidisciplinary teams provide rapid, flexible and accessible services to address urgent and acute problems facing children and young people, by providing a 'hospital from home' approach and a therapeutic day service.
You will be work therapeutically with young people, and parents/carers, in both individual and group settings. There will also be a role for supporting psychological thinking within the multi-disciplinary team via team meetings, consultation, case discussion and teaching.
A capacity to work with emotionally intense, demanding and challenging situations is needed. Home or hospital visits are part of the work for the Home Treatment Team, whereas the Day Service is static.
The post holder will need to employ frequent and intense concentration during their work.
On occasions the post holder may be required to use their own vehicle to attend meetings or as part of their clinical role.
There is a need to use effective and efficient keyboard skills in the recording of clinical information and in communicating with colleagues.
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.
BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which is the lead provider of forensic mental health services; that managed the devolved New Models of care budget, it delivers MH care across some of the prisons, and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the HCPC as a clinical or counselling psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Additional post-doctoral training in evidence-based therapies e.g. CBT, systemic therapy and EMDR.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of young people and adolescents with mental health difficulties and learning difficulties 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.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in consultation and collaboratively with Social Care Teams.
- Experience of working within a service with young people in crisis.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in the NHS
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
- 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
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). High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Experience of group work. Willingness to work flexibly. Car driver desirable. Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.