Job summary
Community Psychosis services (Various posts, Full-time & Part-time).
Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologists
We have several exciting opportunities for full time & part time psychologists, who are interested in specialising in working with people experiencing psychosis.
The post holders will provide a psychology service in the following multidisciplinary community psychosis teams that provide interventions to service users and their families with psychosis and co-occuring complex needs with the aims of supporting recovery, promoting mental and physical wellbeing and optimise independence and social inclusion
Camden.
South Camden Recovery Team (Peckwater Centre, Kentish Town) - 1.0 WTE
North Camden Recovery Team (Daleham Gardens, Hampstead) - 0.4 WTE
Camden Community Rehab Team & Camden Assertive Outreach Team (Camden Road & Greenland Road, Camden Town) - 0.7 WTE
Islington.
South Islington Recovery Team (Southwood Smith Street, Angel) - 0.6 WTE
Islington Community Rehab Team (Southwood Smith Street, Angel) - 0.4 WTE
We welcome applications for part-time working and/or job shares. There is also opportunity to join together part-time positions into full-time contracts if desired.
Main duties of the job
You would work directly with individuals, groups and families from a wide range of diverse backgrounds, providing tailored assessment, formulation, consultation and interventions for psychosis, bipolar and co-occuring psychological difficulties such as trauma. You would work closely with MDT colleagues and other agencies to provide psychologically informed care, through joint working, training, consultation, supervision and reflective practice. You would also have opportunities to undertake service development, service evaluation, quality improvement (QI) and research. You would be expected to practice as independent clinicians and work autonomously within professional guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service.
Previous experience of working with people with psychosis and an enthusiasm for creative working and interest in innovation and co-production with this group are essential for the positions. The posts require Health and Care Professions Council registration as a clinical or counselling psychologist.
Candidates coming towards the end of their clinical or counselling psychology training may apply and commence in post after qualification and registration with the HCPC. If there is significant delay in obtaining qualification from a training course as a result of requirements to make major thesis corrections then initial appointment at Band 6 as a trainee psychologist with progression to Band 7 on qualification and HCPC registration will be considered.
About us
You would be joining a vibrant community of psychological therapists in community psychosis services, drawing on a range of approaches including .CBTp, Family interventions and systemic therapies, third wave therapies, and other approaches. We are committed to providing regular and high quality supervision as well as excellent opportunities for continued professional development.
We offer an extensive CPD programme, including training and specialist supervision in CBTp and Family Interventions in Psychosis, in-house psychological workshops in systemic, psychodynamic, CBT and MI approaches, and excellent opportunities for research and leadership development. We have close links with local training organisations and have trainees on placement working under supervision.
Our Community Mental Health Transformation Programme means that it is an exciting time for psychology to play a key role in helping shape services to be more accessible, trauma-informed and recovery focused. We value diversity in our team and are committed to make our workforce more representative of the communities we serve. We also attach importance to staff wellbeing, and have a range of initiatives to support this, including flexible working options.
By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a psychology service to the clinical team(s) and service users, providing psychological assessment, formulation and treatment and offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to referrers, non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers.
To provide advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to staff within the team(s).
This may include supervision of trainee and/or assistant psychologists.
The post holder will be responsible for keeping up to date with the data entry requirements of the post. They will contribute to staff and service training initiatives and will use research skills for service audit, policy and service development as required.
Please also see full Job Description attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a psychology service to the clinical team(s) and service users, providing psychological assessment, formulation and treatment and offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to referrers, non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers.
To provide advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to staff within the team(s).
This may include supervision of trainee and/or assistant psychologists.
The post holder will be responsible for keeping up to date with the data entry requirements of the post. They will contribute to staff and service training initiatives and will use research skills for service audit, policy and service development as required.
Please also see full Job Description attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- Postgraduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those not trained in the UK, or for those trained in the UK before 1996).
- Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
Skills/ Abilities
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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of service users with psychotic disorders and their comorbidities in a secondary mental health setting.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service users, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity evident in populations with psychosis.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies, with demonstrated competence in the delivery of effective, evidence-based psychological interventions (e.g. CBT for psychosis and family interventions in psychosis) with adults with psychotic disorders.
- Postgraduate-level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of social care, care planning and risk assessment.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and offering effective consultation and supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical or counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential
- Postgraduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those not trained in the UK, or for those trained in the UK before 1996).
- Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
Skills/ Abilities
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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of service users with psychotic disorders and their comorbidities in a secondary mental health setting.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service users, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity evident in populations with psychosis.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies, with demonstrated competence in the delivery of effective, evidence-based psychological interventions (e.g. CBT for psychosis and family interventions in psychosis) with adults with psychotic disorders.
- Postgraduate-level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of social care, care planning and risk assessment.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and offering effective consultation and supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical or counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
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
Various sites across Camden and Islington (see advert wording for specific team bases)
4 St Pancras Way
London
NW1 0PE
Employer's website
https://www.candi.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)
