Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-8189765
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Enfield Integrated learning Disability Service
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £63,665 - £70,887 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT).
As of 1 April 2026, NLFT has formally merged with Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust—marking the start of an exciting new chapter. This is a unique opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation at a time of transformation, where we are strengthening access to mental health services, responding more effectively to complex and specialist needs, and advancing our work in education, research and innovation.
By bringing together our combined expertise, we are building a stronger, more collaborative Trust—one that delivers consistent, high-quality care and improved outcomes for the diverse communities we serve.
At the heart of our approach is The North London Way. We are committed to:
- Working collaboratively at every level, guided by our shared values
- Shaping a positive, inclusive culture where staff and service users thrive
- Empowering our teams with the skills, tools and autonomy to drive meaningful change
- Delivering excellence and continuously improving the quality of care we provide
- Embedding research, innovation and technology across our services
- Taking a trauma-informed approach in everything we do
We are proud to be an inclusive employer that values diversity. We actively welcome applicants from all backgrounds, particularly from our local communities, and are committed to creating opportunities for everyone—including apprentices, veterans and care leavers.
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.
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Job overview
Want to make a difference to the lives of people with learning disabilities? Want to work in a friendly and dynamic service? Then look no further than Enfield integrated learning disabilities services!
The successful applicant will provide a clinical psychology lead to deliver Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) to adults with learning disabilities and longstanding challenging behaviours by implementing an established PBS pathway in conjunction with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist. The PBS Project Team comprises of Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, Assistant Psychologists, and 2 Clinical Psychologists. In addition to direct clinical work, and supervision of colleagues PBS work, the post-holder will also work consultatively with service providers to embed PBS into the service cultures, including developing and delivering training to staff teams.
Strong engagement skills and the ability to work creatively in relation to challenging behaviour and complex multi-agency networks are essential. We are seeking candidates with a commitment to evidence-based practice, service development, client and carer participation and utilising outcome measures.
The successful applicant will lead the Project to demonstrably improve the quality of life for each client through the use of PBS and other specialist psychological approaches. It is expected that the project contributes to reductions in care package costs over time through effective use of PBS
Main duties of the job
To contribute to the delivery of an effective, high quality lpsychology service within EILDS.
To lead a project that delivers Positive Behaviour Support to a group of individuals with learning disabilities and longstanding challenging behaviours.
To develop, implement and manage the EILDS PBS Project pathway in collaboration with team members and managers within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.
To provide PBS supervision to clinicians within the project (comprising of Assistant Psychologist/ Behaviour Analyst, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist) to ensure all aspects of multi-component Positive Behaviour Support are offered, including coaching, training, and consultation work with service providers to embed PBS into the service cultures.
It is expected that the project can contribute through effective use of PBS to reductions in care package costs over time, as identified in EILDS review processes and report to managers and commissioners. A key aspect of the role is to lead in the collation and reporting of outcome measures, direct behavioural data, statistics, and conducting audit and/or research within the PBS project.
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:
- 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.
- 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
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
To provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions 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. This is likely to be provided within, however not necessarily restricted to, the framework of Positive Behaviour Support.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological assessment and intervention/treatment and/or management of a clients challenging behaviours, mental health problems, 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.
To evaluate and make decisions about intervention/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 exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of users whose problems are managed by psychologically based assessments/ interventions.
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies as accredited by the BPS or Certified Equivalence.
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and intervention/treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of 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 receiving and providing supervision. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Demonstrate further specialist training/experience in learning disabilities through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the professional psychology manager
- Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges
- Skills in the use of complex 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.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 50 hours
knowledge
Essential criteria
- Psychological assessments
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
- Rupa Gone
- Job title
- Consultant Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 379 5039
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