Job summary
This is a newly created part-time 8b psychologist post in Islington Services for Ageing and Mental Health. The postholder will lead and manage psychologists working across Islington older adult services and they will provide clinical interventions to clients in Islington Memory and Dementia Navigator Service.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead and manage the psychological professionals working in Services for Ageing and Mental Health (SAMH) across Islington ensuring delivery of high-quality evidence based psychological interventions.

The postholder will be responsible for providing / ensuring clinical and management supervision to psychology staff in SAMH Islington.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the psychology team understand and operate to the requirements of the service's operational policies and strategy and that safe, evidence based, culturally competent and trauma informed care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.

The postholder will play a key role in expanding and developing service provision in line with national guidelines and local priorities and they will actively contribute to the evaluation of clinical services through audit and governance.

The post holder will be responsible for providing highly skilled psychological assessment and specialist intervention to clients in Islington Memory and Dementia Navigator Service. They will be expected to offer advice, consultation and support to other teams as needed.

The post holder will guide and support quality improvement, involvement in research and service and carer involvement / co-production.

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.

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
Full Job Description and Person Specification uploaded and available to applicants. key responsibilities include:

• The post holder will lead and manage psychological therapists working in Islington SAMH. They will ensure delivery of high-quality evidence based psychological interventions.
• The postholder will be responsible for providing / ensuring highly specialist clinical supervision and management supervision to psychology staff in Islington SAMH.
• The post holder will provide advice, consultation, teaching, training and supervision to other health and social care staff working in the service and in other associated services as appropriate.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the psychology team understand and operate to the requirements of the services operational policy and strategy and that safe, evidence based, NICE concordant, effective, culturally competent and trauma informed care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.
• The postholder will play a key strategic role in expanding and developing service provision in line with national guidelines and local priorities and they will actively contribute to the evaluation of clinical services through audit and governance.
• The post holder will be responsible for providing highly skilled psychological assessment and specialist intervention to highly complex clients in Islington Memory and Dementia Navigator Service and will be expected to offer advice, consultation and support to other teams as needed.
• The post holder will guide and support quality improvement (QI), involvement in research and service and carer involvement / co-production.
• The post holder will be responsible for developing the psychology workforce leading on recruitment, identifying training needs and managing gaps in service.

Person Specification
Qualification & Registration
Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and current registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist
• Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post

Skills/ Abilities
Essential

• Highly developed skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including neuropsychological assessment), intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in OA mental health including challenging behaviours and complex emotional need.
• Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups and in providing Reflective Practice and staff Debriefs.

Experience/ Knowledge
Essential

• Substantial post-qualification experience working with the client group of the post or a related client group.
• Experience of the management of qualified applied psychologists and/or psychological therapy staff
• Experience of leading and contributing to service development

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).