# Assistant Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist/d2dfe0c6-4a15-410b-9182-7387668ff934 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist/d2dfe0c6-4a15-410b-9182-7387668ff934.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** North London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Edgware Community Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Assistant psychologist - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £33,262 - £36,027 Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-21T11:00:45.684Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Edgware/North_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Assistant_Psychologist/Assistant_Psychologist-v8360684 - **Employer website:** https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for an innovative and conscientious assistant psychologist to join us at The Beacon Centre. This role is located in our CAMHS Inpatient Unit, The Beacon Centre. This General Adolescent Unit sits within our CAMHS Crisis Pathway, which offers services to young people on the edge of crisis or in crisis. There is a dynamic psychological therapies team who work within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting young people (13-18yrs) with complex needs. The role will be supervised by a qualified Clinical Psychologist and supported by a wider MDT of experienced practitioners. The role involves assessment and evidence-based intervention with young people or parents, under supervision and with the support of colleagues. Skills in risk and crisis management and work with wider networks is required to support a young person in a holistic way. The role will involve sharing psychological thinking within the team, and using audit and service development skills for the purposes of Quality Improvement. You will support with co-production on the unit in order to improve the experience young people have during their stay. The role includes opportunities for CPD as part of the North London Partnership’s psychological therapies pathway. ### Main duties of the job - To support psychological assessment and care planning with young people in mental health crisis who require a hospital admission. - To deliver individual and group psychologically informed interventions, either jointly or autonomously, as identified and agreed with supervision. - To engage young people on the ward, and implement cognitive-behavioural and emotional regulation approaches, aimed at helping service users to improve their well-being and functioning. - Support with risk assessment and safety planning, with supervision and in conjunction with the wider inpatient team. - To use skills in service evaluation and audit to evaluate and inform service development within the team. - To contribute to MDT discussions, formulations, and CPD sessions and to support with teaching where required. - To be involved in co-production and supporting the feedback of young people to be heard and used to impact service delivery. We are looking for someone that is: - Compassionate - Respectful - Positive approach - High level of enthusiasm and motivation. - Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively. - Ability to be self -reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans, including psychologically informed interventions, under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist - To assist in the coordination and running of psychological intervention groups. - To be able to exchange complex information with service users, families, carers, staff and members of the public using sensitivity and empathy and ensuring collaborative working. - To assist in the development of a psychologically informed thinking to the benefit of staff, clients and their families and carers. - To attend and contribute to clinical and team meetings. - To be able to initiate referrals to other health professionals in specialist services and agencies. - To ensure practice is supported by research and evidence-based practice. - To work according to the principles of “Trauma Informed Care/Intervention”. This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties. ### Applicant requirements 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. ## Person Specification ### OTHER **Essential** - Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively. - To be aware of and demonstrate the trust values. **Desirable** - A desire to pursue a career in psychology ### PERSONAL **Essential** - An ability to interact effectively and with initiative with staff from all disciplines. - An ability to interact with people with mental health difficulties and their families and or carers. - Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently on work agreed and supervised at regular intervals - Ability to assess clinical situations quickly and use initiative - Well-developed interpersonal skills - Ability to remain calm in emergency situations and respond in a professional manner - Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers - Ability to manage stress and work under pressure ### Experience **Essential** - At least 6 months working in a healthcare setting or equivalent (e.g. third sector). - Experience of working in a clinical team. - Work with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities - Work in a role requiring frequent and intense concentration. - Experience of working in situations where clients and/or their families/carers respond with some distress. **Desirable** - Experience of paid work in direct care provision. - Experience of working in the NHS - Previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist - Experience of delivering psychological interventions. - Experience of data collection to support healthcare systems. - Working in an MDT with clients with complex difficulties. ### KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS **Essential** - High-level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive. - Good knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology. - Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues - An understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems and their carers - Have an understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement - Awareness of treatment outcomes, recovery tools, care planning, assessment of risk - Have an understanding and commitment to equal opportunities, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice - An ability to form effective working relationships with people from diverse communities and ethnic groups - An understanding of psychology applied to health care. - An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context - Excellent IT skills. **Desirable** - High standard of report writing. - Knowledge of the different professional roles and responsibilities within an MDT. - Experience of training professionals. - Knowledge of Trauma Informed Principles. - Experience of analysing and processing complex information through the use of databases, SPSS or similar packages ### TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS **Essential** - An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology. - Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society. **Desirable** - Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis. ## Documents - [jd and ps (pdf, 560.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10687323) - [ap guidelines (pdf, 296.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10687458) - [nlft functional requirement (pdf, 536.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10687270) - [a comprehensive guide for candidates (pdf, 544.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2959) - [trac - value based recruitment guidance for candidate (pdf, 4.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2440) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.