Senior Clinical Psychologist

We are looking for an enthusiastic highly skilled Clinical Psychologist with an interest in inpatient and day service work to join the NCL commissioned CAMHS Inpatient Service based at Edgware Hospital. The North London Partnership CAMHS division is going through an exciting transformation, and this is an opportunity to contribute to change and implementation a trauma informed approach in these services. The division is in the process of implementing service transformation using the THRIVE framework of system change. This post is an exciting opportunity not only to utilise a range of clinical skills while working with young people and complex systems, but also to be actively involved in supervision and overall service development. They will work closely with the allied health professional and nursing teams to provide high quality care.

The Beacon Centre CAMHS Service delivers highly intensive multidisciplinary Inpatient care to young people who are displaying high risk and Acuity of Emotional dysregulation and Mental Illness, supporting young people and their families in the NCL area. The Beacon Day Centre aims to shorten the length of inpatient admissions providing best outcomes for young people in a least disruptive way by supporting links to Community and providing meaningful structure

The successful post holder: Will have a ‘can do’ and flexible attitude so that they can successfully integrate and contribute to our dynamic service. They will have experience of working with children and young people, 2 offering psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions within a community CAMHS service or CAMHS inpatient setting.

Provide a specialist clinical psychology service to clients served by the Beacon Centre CAMHS Service, 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 warm and welcoming CAMHS team has a range of highly experienced clinicians who will be available to supervise and support the post holder. The post holder will receive supervision in line with BPS guidelines and will have access to the free Psychology CPD programme running in the Trust.

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.
  
  

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helmut Kolakowski Job title: Service Manager: Beacon Centre GAU Email address: h.kolakowski@nhs.net Telephone number: 02087026698