A Vacancy at North London NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to work with our Mental Health Liaison team in Barnet General Hospital. You will co-lead on the provision of psychology input to clients referred to the team via A&E and the wards. The role will draw on psychology skills across mental and physical health. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary staff group and will have responsibility for Clinical Associate Psychologists and/or Assistant Psychologists. You may also be responsible for qualified psychological therapists undertaking work within or linked to the liaison service and trainee clinical psychologists.
Your primary duties will involve assessment, formulation and designing short-term interventions. You also offer structured and regular consultation to colleagues drawing from psychological processes and theories to help consider a client's presentation. You will also lead on service development and developing short-term psychological interventions that may be offered by non-psychology colleagues and implementing outcome measures.
· To oversee the provision of specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the Barnet Mental Health Liaison Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
· To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
· To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
· To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
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 detailed information on the job description, main responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the attached documentation.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Jun 2025