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Clinical Psychologist - Barnet CAMHS Generic | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Dyddiad hysbysebu: 08 Awst 2024
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £59,490 - £66,239 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
Oriau: Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau: 07 Medi 2024
Lleoliad: Barnet, N2 8LT
Cwmni: Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 6523879/306-BEH-2182

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Are you looking for a new challenge? Would you like to join a warm, welcoming and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, person-centered and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties?

If so, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist to work within the Barnet CAMHS generic team based at the Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware Community Hospital.

Barnet CAMHS prides itself in working from 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 EMDR, Narrative Exposure Therapy and ADOS training.

The partnership between Barnet,Enfieldand Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originallyestablishedin 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and willat all timesbehave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:

• We arekind

• We arerespectful

• We worktogether

• We keep thingssimple

• Weempower

• We are proudlydiverse


In order tomeet the needs of the new Partnership services you may berequiredfrom time to time to work atdifferent locationsto your normal place of work. This may mean that youare required towork at any location that fall underBarnet,Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.







Barnet CAMHS prides itself in working from 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 EMDR, Narrative Exposure Therapy and ADOS training.

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, clinical associate psychologists, qualified clinical and counselling psychologists (including Band 7, 8A, 8B, 8C posts) and provides excellent opportunities for career development. In addition to delivering high quality evidence-based therapy, the psychology team are actively invited to share and implement service development projects aimed at meeting the complex 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.



1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the 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.


1. To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.


1. To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.


1. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.


1. To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.


1. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.


1. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children and young people of the service, across all settings and agencies serving children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems / challenging behaviour.


1. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.


1. To act as care coordinator, where no other team member is involved, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.


1. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.


1. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the BPS and Trust policies and procedures


1. To take part in the duty rota for emergency assessments as agreed with the team manager.


This advert closes on Thursday 22 Aug 2024