Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Psychologist or Psychotherapist to join the multi-disciplinary Community Team in the Camden and Islington Personality Disorder Service in North London Foundation Trust. The post-holder will join the Team Manager, and Consultant Psychiatrists in leading the team which is made up of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Nurses.

The main purpose of the role is to bring a psychological perspective to the work of the Community Team, which functions within a framework of psychologically-informed and change-focused case management and provides assessment, consultation and interventions to people with difficulties understood as severe 'personality disorder'. The post holder will also hold a small caseload offering individual and group interventions. The team uses psychologically-informed and change-focused approaches in their work with clients, this includes case management (informed by MBT and SCM) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). The post holder will be part of the DBT Team which works across both the Community Team and the Therapies Team in the service.

As a member of the whole service management group, the post holder will provide senior clinical input for the management of complex cases held by the service and will take a role in supporting the service to manage formal and informal complaints. They will also chair a weekly formulation-based discussion and deputise for Community Team management.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role are:

• Screening and responding to Community Team referrals
• Providing assessment to clients and consultation to staff
• Providing psychological interventions to clients within a Dialog + framework (previously CPA)
• Clinically supervising Psychology colleagues and those from other disciplines
• Contributing to the clinical and operational management of the Personality Disorder Service
• Providing training to Trust colleagues and partner agencies
• Service development/QI/research

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide psychological assessments for referred clients.
• To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients with a range of problems, severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours, and to provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
• To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
• To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
• To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
• To provide professional and clinical supervision to junior psychologists, trainee clinical and counselling psychologists and assistant psychologists.
• To provide senior clinical input for the management of complex cases held by the service
• To provide advice, consultation, training and supervision, where appropriate, to other health and social care staff working with the client group.
• To regularly attend and facilitate group supervision.
• Deputising for Community Team manager
• Support with managing caseload and assessment allocations in the team
• Formal and informal complaints

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.