North London NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 x Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to join the Generic CAMHS team in Haringey
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)
The post holder will provide a specialist clinical psychology service to children and young people referred to Haringey CAMHS providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
Other Responsibilities Include The Following
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research.
- To provide consultation, teaching, advice and training to other professionals, and staff working with children and young people.
- To provide mental health and specialist therapy assessments of a significant and complex nature with a view of formulating and implementing plans for the treatment and management of a child and adolescent’s mental health difficulties within the context of family and other systems.
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These assessments will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and will employ evidence-based practice and information from appropriate rating scales, self report measure, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care and service user feedback.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family, or group.
- To use appropriate psychological models to treat range of presentations including trauma and attachment issues, drawing upon different models to develop a formulation and treatment plan.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Margot Kalmus
- Job title: Lead Psychologist
- Email address: margot.kalmus@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0208 702 3400
Thembi Magadlela (Team Manager)
- Email address: thembi.magadlela@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02087023400 / 5154
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