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Job Summary

Take a lead role, in partnership and collaboration with senior clinicians across disciplines, for developing psychological therapy pathways appropriate to adolescents, and model-driven interventions for children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting.

Take delegated management responsibility for appraisals and ensuring supervision arrangements are in place for the psychology staff within the SAFE team. Support supervision structures across Enfield CAMHS for psychology staff. Work in close collaboration with the CAMHS Psychology Discipline Lead in relation to matters related to psychology offer across Enfield CAMHS. Deputise for the CAMHS Psychology discipline lead in their absence. Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological therapy practice within the borough CAMHS service, in collaboration and under the supervision of the Head of Psychological Therapies.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist assessments of children, adolescents and their families/carers referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological 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 client\''s care.

To formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young person, and their family\''s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the presenting problem(s), and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological therapies interventions for children, young people, their families/carers, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

To deliver evidence-based interventions, utilising short-term and goal-oriented approaches to improve service flow and accessibility, alongside longer-term interventions for children, adolescents, and their families with more complex needs, in alignment with the requirements of an NHS CAMHS service.

About Us

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.

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. 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.

Details

Date posted: 09 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £70,396 to £80,837 a year Per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 455-NLFT-0228-A

Job locations: Bay Tree House, Christchurch Close, Enfield, EN2 6NZ

Job DescriptionJob responsibilities: For a detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the documentation attached to this post.

Person SpecificationEssential

Qualifications/ Registrations

Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.

Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a psychologist - UK approved courses only.

Completion of a clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to supervise doctoral trainees.

Diploma in CBTp

Doctoral level knowledge of psychological therapies including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.

Desirable

Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Eligibility for Chartered Psychologist status.

Experience of supervising clinicians in CBT-p

Skills/ Abilities

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.

Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.

Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.

Competency in neuropsychological assessments.

Competency in EMDR

Desirable

Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with psychosis, people with additional disabilities etc).

High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential

Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist, including substantial recent post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.

Experience of providing CBT for psychosis.

Experience of working with carers and family members

Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.

Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients\'' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified psychologist and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.

Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a substantial number of hours clinical supervision in working as a specialist clinical psychologist.

Experience of providing professional and clinical supervision.

Desirable

Experience of teaching and training

Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

Personal Qualities

Essential

Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers

Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others

Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team.

Demonstrable leadership and management qualities.

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.

Desirable

Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Personal experience of mental health problems and/or personal therapy.

A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit

Other Requirements

Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.

A desire to CPD and keeping abreast of developments in Professional Psychology

Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situation and severely challenging behaviours

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

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