Job summary
Your normal place of work will be in a Core Locality Hub in Enfield, working within designated Primary Care Network. However, you may be required to work at any other location of the Trusts interests, including travelling to appropriate meetings, outside of the borough, as required.
To provide highly specialist psychological and systemic assessments of clients aged 18-25 years accessing Adult Mental Health services, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including: assessments of attachment security; neuro-psychological considerations; self-report measures; rating scales; direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, their family and carers, and others, for example social workers, involved in the client's care.
Main duties of the job
The delivery of care and treatment will be agile and flexible designed to meet the specific needs if young adults who may find it difficult to access Mental health Services. As such the post holder will work in community settings and in partnership with other organisations in young people's network.
. To support the internal training, further support (such as supervision) of team colleagues in their intervention with the young adults and their families.
. To deliver specialist group-based interventions.
. To maximise the use of specialist interventions designed to support young adults experiencing moderate to severe mental illness.
. To liaise with clinical specialists in the other divisions in the development of the service to assure alignment and to reduce variation in offer.
. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress.
. To identify and develop models of both assessing and working with families and young people.
. Deliver training to a range of staff with differing levels of qualification and professional background.
. Regularly update and maintain highly complex and confidential electronic records.
. Responsible for the use of Trust computer systems.
About us
At Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Community and Mental Health Trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.
The Trust's values are:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Being Positive
- Working together
By coming to work at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust you will be joining a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the Persons specifications and job descriptions for a detailed overview of the job.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the Persons specifications and job descriptions for a detailed overview of the job.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent) or Systemic Family Therapy (or equivalent) and registration with the HCPC or UKCP
- Registered professional with evidence of working within the NHS in both child and adult services.
Desirable
- Qualifications/ training in other approaches e.g. neuropsychology CBT, NVR and DBT.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological/systemic assessment and treatment of young adults across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Minimum 1 years' experience of working in a mental health setting in the NHS.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of working in consultation and collaboratively with Social Care Teams.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Knowledge and skills and abilities
Essential
- Skills in doing complex psychological/systemic assessments and frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Experience of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children, young people, and their families particularly in relation to looked after children and the impact of abuse on children and families, trans-generationally, and impact on caring families and professional systems.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the fields of psychology and systemic family psychotherapy.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
- Willingness to work flexibly.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological/systemic therapies working with client groups needing specialist approaches (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
- Knowledge of relevant legislation.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Working to Professional Guidelines.
- Must be accountable for own professional actions and interpretation of policies
- Commitment to Equal opportunities
Desirable
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic professional journals and/or books.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent) or Systemic Family Therapy (or equivalent) and registration with the HCPC or UKCP
- Registered professional with evidence of working within the NHS in both child and adult services.
Desirable
- Qualifications/ training in other approaches e.g. neuropsychology CBT, NVR and DBT.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological/systemic assessment and treatment of young adults across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Minimum 1 years' experience of working in a mental health setting in the NHS.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of working in consultation and collaboratively with Social Care Teams.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Knowledge and skills and abilities
Essential
- Skills in doing complex psychological/systemic assessments and frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Experience of working in a multi-ethnic community and of working with interpreters.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children, young people, and their families particularly in relation to looked after children and the impact of abuse on children and families, trans-generationally, and impact on caring families and professional systems.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the fields of psychology and systemic family psychotherapy.
- Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
- Willingness to work flexibly.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological/systemic therapies working with client groups needing specialist approaches (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
- Knowledge of relevant legislation.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Working to Professional Guidelines.
- Must be accountable for own professional actions and interpretation of policies
- Commitment to Equal opportunities
Desirable
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic professional journals and/or books.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
