Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

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62Job Description:We are looking for an enthusiastic experienced Clinical / Counselling Psychologist who is keen to make a valuable impact to a fast changing diverse and complex client group within Acute Care. The successful candidate will be joining a newly configured network of psychologists working across the Acute Care Pathway within the North London Partnership (BEH – Barnet Enfield and Haringey /C&I – Camden and Islington). This professional cohort will provide great opportunities for joint working and enhanced professional development.
The post-holder will contribute to the provision of psychology as a member of the Acute Care Service, in Enfield. The post will be based in a new Inpatient Ward on the Chase Farm Site. Cumbria Villa is a 15 bedded mixed gender ward. As a Transition and Recovery Service, Patients with Low Intensity needs will be supported from Acute/Crisis Inpatient admissions towards discharge. The goal of is to provide patients with a safe and supportive environment as they transition from a higher level of care to less intensive treatment and eventual discharge.
We also welcome applications from newly qualified band 7 psychologists with a view to achieve career progression to a band 8a within 12 months as part of a preceptorship if appointed.
The post holder will work as a member of the Acute Care Service, in Enfield. This post will contribute to the delivery and support the continuous improvement of the therapeutic offer on the ward as well as taking a big role in the improvement of the culture on the ward. The post carries a specific remit to work with the ward team to develop a systematic, consistent and effective response to the common issues that arise within acute care settings that can have a powerful impact on the overall effectiveness and quality of experience for people using the service and the staff working in it.
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | 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. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.
Transition and Recovery Services: This name emphasises the idea that the ward is a transitional space where patients can receive support and services as they move from a more acute care setting to a less intensive one. The goal of is to provide patients with a safe and supportive environment as they transition from a higher level of care to less intensive treatment and eventual discharge.
• The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality trauma-informed specialist psychology service within the acute care pathway. This will involve undertaking psychological assessments; evidence based short term psychological interventions, and contribute to the ward based therapeutic group work program and to provide individual and group supervision within multi-disciplinary teams.
• The post-holder will be responsible for providing psychological formulation and consultation to contribute to the care plans and management of service users currently being treated on the wards.
• As a team member both of the psychological therapies acute care teams and the ward MDT, the post-holder will be expected to work collaboratively, and with MDT members including the provision of joint assessments with Consultant Psychiatrists and joint working with other members of the team.
• The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
• The post-holder will supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by attached doctoral trainees and supervise psychologically driven treatment interventions by other members of the MDT.
• The post-holder will provide training, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team, who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• The post-holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within the service/team.
• The post-holder will utilize skills for research and audit and contribute to policy and service development, in relation to the Psychological Therapies provision and in collaboration with the borough specific acute care services.
• The post-holder will support the Acute and CRHTT Lead in implementing post-incident support and reflective practice.Location: Enfield