Clinical or Counselling Psychologist – Barnet AOT

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62Job Description:To provide a specialist clinical psychology service to clients served by the Barnet CAMHS Assertive Outreach Team , providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy to clients and offering advice, consultation and supervision on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post holder will provide advice and consultation to non-psychologists in the service on psychological interventions, for example, being involved in delivering a CBT supervision group.
The post holder will provide clinical supervision to trainee and less experienced psychologists and non-psychologists.
The post holder will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence based and evidence-informed care pathways.
The post holder will be based in the Barnet CAMHS team premises at Holly Oak, Edgware Community Hospital with other team members and they will have access to support from the team administrators.
The work is with children, young people and families who present with high risk to themselves and/or others and who will be difficult to engage in standard outpatient services. The team will provide rapid, flexible and accessible services to address urgent and acute problems facing children and young people.
A capacity to work with emotionally intense, demanding and challenging situations is needed. Home visits and outreach work is the main part of the work.
The post holder will need to employ frequent and intense concentration during their work.
On occasions the post holder may be required to use their own vehicle to attend meetings or as part of the therapeutic process and outreach offer.
There is a need to use effective and efficient keyboard skills in the recording of clinical information and in communicating with colleagues.
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.
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
BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which is the lead provider of forensic mental health services; that managed the devolved New Models of care budget, it delivers MH care across some of the prisons, and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury.
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.Location: Barnet