Job summary
Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. Camden Primary Care Mental Health Team
This is a new and exciting opportunity to work in Camden Primary Care Mental Health Team. The post holder will gain broad experience across primary care and secondary care settings, so ideal for those soon to be or recently qualified.
The primary care mental health team aims to break down the barriers to care, integrating primary and secondary care services to deliver a model that improves access to holistic care for all.
You would be working with adults 18 and upwards to provide a whole system, integrated and enhanced primary care approach to clients experiencing mental health difficulties. There is an emphasis on multi-agency collaboration as well as co-production opportunities and you will have the opportunity to shape the psychology delivery in creative ways to meet the needs of the local population.
Main duties of the job
You will be supported to ensure the delivery of a high quality, accessible, and inclusive psychological service drawing on a range of psychological approaches to help establish a psychologically informed and trauma informed practice within the team and wider service area through brief individual work, group work, consultation (informal and formal), training and reflective practice.
We are a Trauma Informed Organisation and try to embed anti-discriminatory practice into our work. Camden and Islington psychologist are committed to Continuing Professional Development and we have an excellent inhouse programme of CPD including courses in CBT, EMDR, Psychodynamic and Systemic Approaches.
About us
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative mental health care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital. We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area. We currently deliver the majority of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. However, we also provide substance misuse services in Westminster, and a substance misuse and psychological therapies service to people living in Kingston. Our trust is also a member of University College London Partners (UCLP), one of the world's leading academic health science partnerships. In addition we have specialist programmes which provide help and treatment for: veterans living in London, young people caught in the cycle of gang culture, older people living with dementia and other age related mental health conditions. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.candi.nhs.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for detailed information on the role and main duties / responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for detailed information on the role and main duties / responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology.
- Postgraduate doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society or the British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
- Current registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical or counselling psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of clients groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Post registration experience of working in a Primary Care Setting
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests) intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health, including challenging behaviours.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with 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.
- Ability to offer a multi-theoretical formulation in clear and concise manner
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting and experience of working jointly with other professional disciplines.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, and to, support and maintain clinical practice
- Ability to work flexibly and creatively according to the needs of local primary care services
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology.
- Postgraduate doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society or the British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
- Current registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical or counselling psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of clients groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Post registration experience of working in a Primary Care Setting
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests) intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health, including challenging behaviours.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with 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.
- Ability to offer a multi-theoretical formulation in clear and concise manner
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting and experience of working jointly with other professional disciplines.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, and to, support and maintain clinical practice
- Ability to work flexibly and creatively according to the needs of local primary care services
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Camden Primary Care Mental Health Team.
1st floor, North East Building, St. Pancras Hospital, 4 St. Pancras Way London, NW1 0PE
London
NW1 0PE
Employer's website
https://www.candi.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)
