Clinical Psychologist/Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

at  Barnet Enfield Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Band 7/8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
We are looking for a motivated, dynamic and creative clinical/counselling psychologist to join our team. Haringey Learning Disability Partnership is an integrated health and social care team supporting adults with learning disabilities and their networks. The post holder will join a small but supportive psychology team, as well as wider multi-disciplinary colleagues which include psychiatry, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing, speech and language therapy and social care.
Work opportunities are extremely varied and include a mix of direct and indirect clinical work, teaching and training, consultation and support in service development. We have strong links with North Thames Clinical Psychology training courses with trainees regularly on placement with the team. The post holder can benefit from professional development opportunities both through North London Mental Health partnership and Haringey Local Authority.
We are looking for a motivated, creative, and passionate Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join a specialist Learning Disability Service in Haringey. They will join a friendly and experienced multidisciplinary team.
Haringey Learning Disability Partnership (HLDP) meets the health and social care needs of adults with learning disabilities in Haringey. The applicant will have the opportunity to implement a variety of psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions to support people with learning disabilities and the team around them. HLDP places value on strength-based approaches and the post holder will have a key responsibility in promoting a trauma informed approach. There are opportunities to draw on different psychological frameworks and to develop skills in clinical leadership, providing supervision and delivery of teaching and training. This is a varied role and most suitable for a dynamic practitioner keen to challenge themselves and committed to collaborative working.
Our Psychology team is extremely supportive and the postholder will receive individual supervision. There are opportunities to access reflective practice facilitated by an external facilitator and multi-disciplinary supervision for complex cases drawing on PTMF. This is a development post, which offers the possibility of moving to a Band 8a upon achievement of the necessary skills, knowledge and competencies.
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.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
We are kind
We are respectful
We work together
We keep things simple
We empower
We are proudly diverse
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to adults with learning disabilities of all ability levels, their service providers and carers within Haringey community. To provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions, as well as offering advice and consultation on service user psychological care to non-psychology colleagues and other non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams’ policies and procedures. To use research skills for audit, service development and research. To contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychology service provision.
Person Specification
Training and Qualification
Essential
Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology.
Registered as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council.

Desirable

• Further training/qualification in Trauma Informed Care
• Further training/qualification in Positive Behaviour Support
• Further training/qualification in specialist assessment such as Autism

EXPERIENCE

Essential
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users with a learning disability.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across a range presenting problems and 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.
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Experience of Positive Behaviour Support as a way to work with behaviours of concern.
Desirable
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Essential
Skills in methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
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.
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable
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.

Please refer the Job description for details