Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated clinical or counselling psychologist to join Camden Parents’ Wellbeing Service (CPWS) to provide systemically-informed psychological interventions to parents and carers of young children across Camden's children's centres.

CPWS was established in 2006 in acknowledgement of the adverse impact of poor parental mental health upon children’s wellbeing. We are a small virtual team of psychologists offering psychological therapy interventions to individual parents/carers, in a range of different mental health and local authority settings in Camden. The team also works to raise awareness and understanding of parental mental health through consultations, training, reflective practice and supervision. We are a friendly, supportive team and highly valued by the services in which we are located. Recently, to strengthen our existing practice, we commissioned bespoke training in Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) from the Anna Freud Centre and so the successful applicant will be joining at an exciting time in the development of the service.

To provide a clinical/counselling psychology service on behalf of CPWS to parents accessing the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialism (CAMHS for under 5s) and/or the Integrated Early Years Services in Camden (i.e. located in children's centres).

Services offered by the post holder will include: providing highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment using evidence-based, NICE recommended interventions for depression and anxiety and related conditions, to the individual and group formats; supervising, offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to the multi-disciplinary team, family workers, health visitors, qualified, trainee and assistant psychologists and to other clinicians. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.

The post holder will become actively involved in staff training and service education/training initiatives and utilise research skills for service audit, policy and service development within the service.

The post-holder will be expected to manage their own time and base themselves across different sites according to the needs of the service and the limits of their 0.6 WTE working pattern. The Whole Family Team is based primarily at 5 Pancras Square and in addition there are five children's centres across Camden.

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

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 networ

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: Dr Theodore Lloyd Job title: Lead Clinical Psychologist & Service Manager Email address: theodore.lloyd@nhs.net Telephone number: 07966653324

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about the post prior to making an application.