Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (12 months fixed term cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0283
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Holly Oak, Edgware Community Hospital
- Town
- Edgware
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
SCAN 8 A Psychologist Fixed Term
Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to join the Barnet CAMHS Service for Children and Adolescents with Neurodisability (SCAN). SCAN is a multidisciplinary team who provide assessment and treatment for children & young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities who are experiencing mental health difficulties, neurodevelopmental differences and where challenging behaviour may be present. The team incorporates psychiatrists, psychologists, family therapists and other allied health professionals and provides excellent opportunities for career development and continued development of leadership skills.
Main duties of the job
This post is full time, for a fixed term (one year) contract and is based at Holly Oak Clinic Barnet HA8 0AD. The successful applicant will join a warm and welcoming team and will be responsible for carrying out psychological, neurodevelopmental and neuropsychological assessments and specialist therapeutic interventions in the clinic as well as in the community and in school-based settings. The post holder will carry a caseload and will be expected to deliver a high-quality innovative service for young people and their parents and carers, using research and good practice guidelines.
In addition to having a multi-disciplinary approach, informed and embedded within the I Thrive Framework. There is a strong focus on further developing clinicians’ skillset and learning from each other. We offer high-quality individual and group supervision, as well as space for reflective practice. There are many CPD opportunities within the team and across North London Foundation NHS Trust; over the last year training has included PBS, ADI-R, ADOS training and ADHD assessment CPDs. The postholder will be supported by North London Foundation NHS Trust- senior clinical manger/s and psychology leads at the local and Trust level.
The Job Holder will be expected to support their team, department and organization to achieve the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work. These are:
· Compassion
· Respect
· Being positive
· Working together
Working for our organisation
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:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see JD.
- The Job Holder will provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist assessment and intervention service for children and young people referred to the neurodevelopmental assessment and to provide this service to their carers/parents and families.
· The Job Holder will provide and/or support the provision of evidence based neurodevelopmental and psychological interventions for service users. This will include providing specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the Neurodevelopmental team.
- The Job Holder is expected to liaise with and offer advice or consultation on clients’ psychological care to parents and/or carers, colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services and appropriate agencies.
· The Job Holder will undertake risk assessment and risk management for clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in clinical psychology or counselling psychology
- Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Experience of undertaking neurodevelopmental assessments including autism and ADHD
- Practical experience administrating ADOS-2
Desirable criteria
- Practical experience administrating 3di or ADI-R
- Experience of cognitive assessments (WISC-V, WPPSI-IV, WAIS-IV)
- Additional specialist training relating to NDS/Mental Health
Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
- Strong commitment to teamwork and development
- Good written and verbal communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Implementing audit or research in a healthcare setting
- Skills in providing consultation to professional and non-professional groups
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in providing consultation to professional and non-professional groups
- Excellent knowledge of neurodevelopmental conditions and related mental health problems
- Experience in managing risk
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing teaching and training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Daniel Keith
- Job title
- CAMHS Community Nurse Interim Barnet ND Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 4500
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