Highly Specialist Clinical / Forensic/Counselling Psychologist

at  Barnet Enfield Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

The Stalking Threat Assessment Centre (STAC) is a multiagency co-located pan London service focused on improving responses to stalking across the capital. The post holder would work closely with Metropolitan Police, National Probation Service and Third Sector Advocacy as part of pilot project focusing on the delivery and piloting of an Early Stalking Intervention Program (ESIP) funded by NHS London health in justice.
The post holder will be involved in leading the delivery of the pilot ESIP program, coordination of referrals, intervention delivery, data collection and will be the primary supervisor of two band 5 assistant psychologists who will be attached to the project. The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of risk and suitability of those being assessed for a Stalking Protection Order or Probation cases where there is a Restraining Order. This will involve close liaison with co-working with police officers, MPS legal service, community probation officers and victim advocates in both the pre and post-conviction space.

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified specialist practitioner psychologist to contribute to the delivery and development of a brief intervention for Stalking Behaviour as part of STAC service.

• The post holder will be responsible for the supervision of two assistant psychologists as part of the ESIP pilot project. They will also lead and contribute to the development of the intervention model and ensure staff are suitably equipped to deliver intervention sessions.
• The job holder will be responsible for coordinating the ESIP referral and clinical management pathway and developing multiagency case management of those referred to the ESIP program. Main Duties are summarised below:
• Provide a clinically informed perspective to Police and other agencies and provide informal and formal education around mental disorder, risk and service provision.
• Provision of psychological therapeutic intervention and assessment as part of MDT approach.
• The post holder will be expected to manage and disseminate data collection and outcomes as required to funding and work closely with the services senior leadership team to deliver this objective.

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:
Please see Job description and Person Specification for detailed description of the main responsibilities

Please refer the Job description for details