Job summary
We are seeking a clinical or counselling psychologist to work in the North Islington Core team. North London Foundation Trust (NLFT) community mental health services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation, and Core teams are at the forefront of this. We are developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team providing assessments, formulations, and interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems in the London borough of Islington. This would require a sound knowledge and experience of CBT and other evidence base interventions in both groups and individual contexts. They will also support and offer liaison, education, supervision, and consultation to GPs, members of the multidisciplinary team and the wider Primary Care Network.

Postholders will be part of newly developing Virtual Psychology Hubs within each borough as well as being integrated within the MDT. This will support more effective co-ordination and delivery of psychological interventions within the borough.

About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust 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, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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.

Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Qualifications/Registrations
Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society or the British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence and other relevant qualifications in CBT
• Current registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical or counselling psychologist

Skills/ Abilities
Essential

• Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests) intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health, including challenging behaviours. Specific knowledge of severe mental illness.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to offer a multi-theoretical formulation and to communicate this in a clear and concise manner
• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting and experience of working jointly with other professional disciplines
• Ability to work flexibly and creatively according to the needs of local primary care services
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

Desirable

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

Experience/ Knowledge
Essential

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of service users with sever mental illness and comorbidities.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service users that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of teaching, training and offering effective consultation.
• Postgraduate-level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.

Desirable

• Experience of working with complexity in stressful situations
• Experience of remote or online working

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Evidence of ability to manage reasonable levels of work place stress

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.
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.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.