Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

2 posts: 1 x full time, 1 x part time

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 Enfield Acute Care and Enfield Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (ECRHTT). The successful candidate will be joining a newly configured network of psychologists working across the Enfield Acute Care Pathway within North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This professional cohort will provide great opportunities for joint working and enhanced professional development.

The successful applicant will be supporting the implementation of Trauma-informed care into multi-disciplinary teams on inpatient wards and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), treatment planning , consultation, liaison, reflective practice and influencing team culture.

*This post is also open to be offered as a “Development Role”. This means that we welcome applications from candidates who are newly qualified or who are due to completing their professional training in the same academic year as the application, or who have limited previous NHS experience but relevant clinical experience elsewhere. The successful post holder would start at band 7 and will be willing to work through a personal development plan to identify competency areas and any support required for career progression/transition from band 7 to 8a within a minimum of 18 months if appointed.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a member of the Acute Care Service, in Enfield, which is part of the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This posts will contribute to the delivery and support the continuously improvement of the therapeutic offer on the acute wards as well as taking a big role in the improvement of the culture on the wards and Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). The post carries a specific remit to work with the ward teams 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post-holder will be 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 also be involved in delivering brief crisis focused psychological interventions, teaching and Reflective Practice to Enfield Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) as required by service needs.
• The post-holder will be providing psychological formulation and consultation to contribute to the care plans and management of service users currently being treated on the wards.
• The post holder will contribute in modelling the co-creation of a more Trauma-Informed culture within the wards, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) and the system as a whole.
• 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 clients’ 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 Assistant Psychologists, 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.