North London NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist
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Are you passionate about working with children and young people with complex mental health and neurodevelopmental needs? Are you committed to reflective and anti-discriminatory practice? Do you want to be part of an innovative, supportive, and engaging team?
About the Role
The Autism and Learning Disabilities Team is seeking a highly motivated and committed Clinical Psychologist with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The post-holder will provide their psychological expertise to multi-disciplinary clinical assessments, interventions, and reviews of service effectiveness. Interventions that may be provided include research- and evidence-informed approaches that make a difference for the children, young people, and families we work with.
This is an exciting time to be joining the service in terms of the strategic aims in the NHS Long Term Plan to ensure that all people with a learning disability, autism, or both can live happier, healthier, and longer lives.
Responsibilities
- Offer highly specialized assessments and interventions with children and young people with disabilities and their parents/carers, within a multidisciplinary context.
- There is also a particular emphasis on diagnostic assessment for young people where there are concerns about social communication and interaction as well as their mental health.
- Support the management of the autism assessment waiting list.
- Utilize research skills to carry out audits and service evaluations relevant to the service.
- Provide professional supervision by the discipline.
- Responsible for clinically supervising and managing the workload of assistant psychologists and other more junior members of staff within the service.
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About the Team
The team works with children and young people up to the age of 25 and has a long-standing national and international reputation for the application of psychodynamic psychotherapies and other evidence-informed approaches to meet the mental health needs of this client group. We are keen to develop our offer further and to support staff to develop innovative clinical practice in assessment and treatment, including group work as appropriate.
Why Choose to Join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
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Our Five-Year Strategy
- Provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- Ensure equity of outcome for all with our partners in North London and each borough.
- Offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- Be more effective as an organization by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
Why NLFT?
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Claire Wright
Job Title: Principal Clinician - Team Clinical Lead
Email Address: cwright@tavi-port.nhs.uk
Telephone Number: 020 8938 2668
Additional Benefits
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff, and visitors.
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviors 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 allowance, and NHS pension scheme.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
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