Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Early Intervention Service

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work within the Barnet Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIS) Team as a one-year secondment. As an embedded psychologist, you will support the EIS Psychology Lead to provide a high-quality psychological service to service users referred to the EIS team. This psychological work will include both direct working with service users and their family members as well as indirect working through consultation, formulation, and psychologically informed input into team meetings. Collaborative joint working with the wider multi-disciplinary team is an integral part of this role. You will also be supporting the team as they work towards their Early Intervention in Psychosis Network (EPIN) accreditation.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary Barnet EIS. They would be expected to:

• 1)    Offer a psychological therapies service providing: a.    Highly specialist assessment b.    Highly specialist formulation c.     Direct provision of therapies covered by NICE guidelines and the National Standards for Early Intervention, including in particular CBTp, to individuals, families or groups. 2)    Offer advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to non-psychological colleagues and to professional and non-professional staff through: a.    Joint and collaborative working with other members of the team to assist engagement. b.    Joint therapeutic work. c.     Psychological consultation and input to the team and in multi-disciplinary meetings. d.    Structured internal supervision or consultation groups, and reflective practice. e.    Post-incident support and reflections for the team. 3)    Demonstrate professional skills to: a.    Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the service’s policies and procedures. b.    Provide supervision and teaching to mental health service staff. c.     Use their core professional training for some, or all, of the following purposes: research, undertake audit and contribution to policy and service development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the attached documentation.