Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Holly Oak Town Edgware Salary £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 11/08/2025 23:59
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Barnet CYP Neurodevelopmental Team
NHS AfC: Band 7
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
* Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
* Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
There is an opportunity that has arisen for 1.6 full-part time Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to work within the Barnet CAMHS Neurodevelopmental team based at the Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware Community Hospital. The postholder will be an active member of the multidisciplinary team providing specialist neurodevelopmental and mental health assessments. In addition, the post-holder will provide pre and post-diagnostic services for children and families to promote psychoeducation, including a small case load of psychological treatments to support their mental health needs whilst also liaising with agencies for further community and multiagency help.
In addition to having a multi-disciplinary approach, informed and embedded within the iThrive Framework. There is a strong focus on further developing clinicians’ skillset and learning from each other. We offer high-quality individual and group supervision, as well as space for reflective practice. There are many CPD opportunities within the team and across BEH; over the last year training has included ADI-R, ADOS training, EMDR and Narrative Exposure Therapy .
We are a warm, welcoming and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, person-centred and evidence-based support to children and young people with Neurodevelopmental and psychological needs.
Main duties of the job
Barnet CAMHS Psychology Team includes a large, dynamic and innovative group of clinicians. The team incorporates all levels of psychologists, from assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, qualified lead/consultant clinical / counselling psychologists and provides excellent opportunities for career development and leadership skills .
In addition to delivering high quality evidence-based assessment and therapy, the psychology team are actively invited to share and implement service development projects aimed at meeting the complex psychological needs of children and families that we support in a timely and effective manner. The development of innovative, creative, practice-based evidence is strongly encouraged.
If you are interested in the post please contact Adriana Fernandez-Chirre (Consultant Clinical Psychologist Tri-borough Neurodevelopmental Backlog Clinical Lead for BEH CAMHS- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey) on 02087024500 or via the email: adriana.fernandez-chirre@nhs.net
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
* 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.
* We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full essential and desirable role requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
* Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or equivalent)
* Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC),
* Trained in ADOS-2 Trained in ADI-R and/or 3di.
Skills/ Abilities
* Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
* Strong commitment to teamwork and development
* Ability to work effectively with a range of people
* Good written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to work flexibly and to be responsive to the needs of the service.
* Ability to provide person-centred care
Experience/ Knowledge
* Interest and/or experience of working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* Knowledge of undertaking neurodevelopmental assessments including autism and/or ADHD.
* Knowledge of neurodevelopmental conditions and related mental health conditions.
* Good working knowledge of current and emerging areas of good practice in neurodevelopmental assessment and neurodevelopmental services
* Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly in their network.
* Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression, or the threat of physical aggression.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families.
* Knowledge and ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence-based interventions.
* Experience of both group and individual work. Experience of work in multidisciplinary team/multi-agency contexts. Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting.
* Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets. Ability to manage own caseload and time. Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems (e.g. RIO) and database/statistical applications.
* Experience of undertaking neurodevelopmental assessments including autism and/or ADHD.
* Experience of providing evidence based psychological interventions to neurodiverse populations
* Experience in enabling service user participation.
* Practical experience administrating ADOS-2 Practical experience administrating 3di or ADI-R. Experience of cognitive assessments (WISC-V, WPPSI-IV, WAIS-IV) Experience of teaching and training. Implementing audit or research in a healthcare setting. Experience of supervising junior staff
Personal Qualities
* Compassionate Respectful Positive approach Being able to work together with other professionals, colleagues, clients and their families. A commitment to service users’ participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation. High level of enthusiasm and motivation. Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively. Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision.
Other Requirements
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
* To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Daniel Kieth Job title Interim Clinical Lead for Barnet CYP ND pathway Email address d.keith@nhs.net Telephone number 0208 702 4500
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