About this role
Job summary
Are you looking for somewhere to establish your career in Forensic Mental Health and care provision or perhaps looking for a change? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your clinical skills and trauma-informed practice? The North London Forensic Service is recruiting Clinical or Forensic Psychologiststo join us.
We have funding for a full-time WTE Band 7 Psychologists. There are opportunities for flexible working, although the predominant base for the roles will be at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield and Avesbury House in Edmonton.
Due to several new developments within the service we are looking for an enthusiastic clinical or forensic to provide psychological input within a the medium and low secure pathways.
The forensic service is a large service, covering inpatients (Medium, Low and Learning Disability wards) as well as community services across 5 boroughs (Enfield, Barnet, Haringey, Islington and Camden).
The successful candidates will support the provision of psychological interventions within a multidisciplinary team setting, leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, offering supervision, training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
*Please also see the attached Job Description for further details.
The post holder would provide a range of assessments and interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role includes direct clinical work, as well as consultation and training to colleagues and other professionals.
The ethos of the service is based on recovery and enablement. These posts require a high level of written and verbal communication skills, as well as an ability to engage well with agencies, colleagues, and service users, often conveying complex or sensitive information. The roles would also include supervision of more junior psychological staff.
This role would be a good fit for you if:
You like to work with individuals who have experienced trauma and have an interest in applying trauma informed principles in practice.
You like to offer specialist consultation in the treatment and understanding of highly complex cases that pose a risk to self and others.
You like clinical autonomy, but also to work well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
You are looking for somewhere to expand the depth of your experience in mental health, trauma-informed practices and research.
You are seeking to work in a large psychology team with a wealth of experience.
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 description Job responsibilities
*Please also see the attached Job Description for further details.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group (including in-patient settings To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology OR Doctoral or Masters level training in forensic psychology with full competencies completed OR Doctoral training in Counselling Psychology Registration with HCPC
Experience Essential
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, which can include outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence.
Desirable
Experience of working within a forensic setting/service either in a B7 role, or as a trainee. Experience of teaching, training and providing supervision/consultation to other professional groups
Experience Essential
Able to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff. Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship 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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address Chase Farm Hosiptal
127 The Ridgeway
London
EN2 8JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)