Assistant Psychologist CAMHS | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 22 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,081 - £33,665 per annum including Outer London Allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2024 |
| Location: | London, HA8 0AD |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6537147/306-BEH-2209 |
Summary
Are you looking for an assistant psychologist role to develop your skills while working within a multi-disciplinary team?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Assistant Psychologist to join the Beacon Inpatient Unit at Edgware Hospital. We are a specialist 12 bedded inpatient general adolescent unit.
We specialise in assessing and treating young people between the ages of 13 up to 18 with acute and severe forms of mental illness and emotional distress. The Beacon Centre has a multi-disciplinary team who work together to support the best outcomes for young people in mental health crisis who have required an admission.
The Assistant Psychologist will join the rest of the psychological therapies team in supporting young people and their families, by providing group and individual treatments, under direct supervision of a psychologist. There will also be opportunities for sharing psychological thinking across the multi-disciplinary team, and service evaluation.
If you are interested in this, we look forward receiving your application.
Please note that if we receive a high number of applicants for this job role, it will close to applicants before the listed closing date.
Supporting psychological assessment and care planning with young people in mental health crisis who require a hospital admission.
To deliver individual and group psychological interventions, either jointly or autonomously as identified and agreed with supervision. This role will primarily focus on engagement of young people, and the implementation of cognitive-behavioural and emotional regulation approaches, aimed at helping service users to improve their well-being and functioning.
To support with risk assessment and safety planning, with supervision.
To use skills in service evaluation and audit to evaluate and inform service development within the team.
To contribute to MDT discussions, formulations, and CPD sessions and to support with teaching where required.
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
See attached Job Description for a full description.
The Beacon Inpatient Unit provides multi-disciplinary mental health support for young people who are in crisis. We also provide support to their families and carers. The team are a mix of disciplines which includes nursing, psychiatry, psychologist, family therapist, art/music therapists, social worker and occupational therapists.
The job will involve supporting psychological assessment and care planning with young people via the use of interview, observation, history gathering, and routine outcome measures. Part of the role is to support with the development and sharing of a working formulation, this will inform the team's interventions. Psychological interventions will be informed by attachment and trauma informed perspectives, and include cognitive-behavioural and emotional regulation approaches, aimed at helping service users to improve their well-being and functioning. There is a strong focus on relationship building within this role.
In addition and where appropriate, you will support other staff to improve their care of and engagement with services users with mental health difficulties, and jointly liaise and work alongside other crisis or risk teams,, primary care, social services and non-statutory organisations as appropriate. You may support the development and evaluation of jointly delivered teaching and training.
You will also be encouraged to participate in team based reflective practice, case discussion and formulation groups delivered by the team psychologist. You will be encouraged to support with audit and service evaluation, as there is a strong culture of quality improvement and service development. CPD is available within the role.
This advert closes on Friday 23 Aug 2024