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Main area
Allied Health Professionals
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0721
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Beacon Centre
Town
Edgware, Barnet
Salary
£53,751 - £60,651 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/04/2026 23:59

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Clinical Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 7

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/ 

As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.

We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit  https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

North London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

 

Job overview

This is an exciting role located in our CAMHS Inpatient Unit, The Beacon Centre. This General Adolescent Unit sits within our CAMHS Crisis Pathway, which offers services to young people on the edge of crisis or in crisis. There is a dynamic therapies team (psychology, systemic therapy, art therapy and music therapy) who work within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting young people (13-18yrs) with complex needs including trauma. The Unit is expanding to offer 15 beds to young people, and the therapies team is growing to meet that increased need. The role will be supervised by a senior psychologist within the unit and supported by a wider MDT of experienced practitioners. There is an opportunity to supervise an assistant psychologist on the Unit. The job is ideal for someone who is interested in working to engage young people who are in crisis and need support to draw out their strengths and hope for the future. The role involves building consistent, supportive relationships with young people and being able to help a young person generalise those relationships to other adults around them. There will be some psychological assessment, for the purposes of formulation driven intervention with young people on the unit. 

Main duties of the job

To conduct psychological assessment, formulation and care planning with young people in mental health crisis who require a hospital admission, in conjunction with other team members.

·       To deliver individual and group psychologically informed interventions, either jointly with the therapies team, or autonomously.

·       To engage young people on the ward, and implement cognitive-behavioural and emotional regulation approaches, aimed at helping service users to improve their well-being and functioning.

·       Support with risk assessment and safety planning, in conjunction with the wider inpatient team.

·       To use skills in service evaluation and audit to evaluate and inform service development within the team. To lead on or contribute to quality improvement projects

·       To contribute to MDT discussions, formulations, and CPD sessions and to provide teaching where required, as well as providing formal and informal consultation to other staff, to contribute positively to the therapeutic milieu

·       To engage with the rest of the therapies team to consider packages of care offered to young people, and the development of a well-rounded therapies ‘offer’

 

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. 

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

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

  • 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 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

Kindly refer to attached Job Description and Person Specifications attached to this advert. Thank you

Person specification

Qualifications and Registration

Essential criteria
  • Doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology. Professional Registration with HCPC to qualify as a Clinical Psychologist in the UK

Skills and Ability

Essential criteria
  • Skills in psychological assessment and treatment of children and young people, including developing individualised formulations.Excellent interpersonal skills & demonstrable ability to work flexibly and respectfully with others.Well-developed oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties. Experience working with children and young people 0- 18 yrs. Experience working with young people at risk to themselves or others. Experience of working with and knowledge in processes around managing risk and safeguarding

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to work under pressure and respond to demanding situations as appropriate.Ability to recognise own limits & seek support re supervision as appropriate. Ability to use clinical supervision effectively for personal development. The ability to engage and work with clients in differing environments in line with the needs of the service

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Helmut Kolakowski
Job title
Service Manager: Beacon Centre GAU
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02087026698
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