Intensive Psychosis Services 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Posting date:	24 April 2025
Salary:	£58,698.00 to £65,095.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£58698.00 - £65095.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 May 2025
Location:	Islington, N7 8US
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	C9455-25-0127

Summary

JOB SUMMARY The Islington Community Rehabilitation Team (ICRT) and Islington Assertive Outreach Team (IAOT) provide a multidisciplinary mental health service for adults with psychosis and co-occurring complex mental health, physical health and social needs. ICRT works with service users placed in mental health residential services within the borough of Islington, and the service has a strong emphasis on supporting the Rehabilitation Pathway, by facilitating successful discharge of service users to the community, maintaining community placements and supporting transitions to more independent living. IAOT works with service users who may have had difficulties engaging with services and/or multiple hospital admissions, and the team is committed to working with individual recovery goals, enhancing wellbeing and providing additional support in crisis. The post holder will lead on psychological provision within the ICRT and IAOT. They will provide high quality and highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment, working autonomously as the senior team psychologist, within professional guidelines and to the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. The post holder will offer staff consultation to aid formulation, diagnosis and psychological care planning, including the management of challenging and risk behaviours, to ICRT colleagues within the Trust and to other providers elsewhere. They will provide staff team reflective space and staff support. The post holder will supervise / manage trainee clinical psychologists and offer supervision and line management where appropriate, to practitioner, associate and assistant psychologists of a lower band. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development/quality improvement. RELATIONSHIPS/COMMUNICATIONS The post holder is expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members characterised by the NLFT Trust Values and trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication. Internal Relationships The postholder will work closely with the following: Colleagues and co-workers in the ICRT and IAOT Colleagues working within mental health services within the Trust and third sector providers Colleagues working within the Local Authority. Community Psychosis Psychology colleagues and other psychology colleagues across the North London NHS Foundation Trust External Relationships The post holder will work closely with: University DClinPsy training courses Other NHS organizations Local Authorities KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 3.1 Financial responsibility The post holder will hold no financial responsibilities. 3.2 Responsibility for Human Resources To provide professional and clinical supervision to trainee psychologists on placement and jointly line manage with the relevant DClinPsy Universities. To provide professional and clinical supervision to other psychologists of a lower grade including clinical associates in psychology and assistant psychologists where appropriate. To provide specialist consultation, training and supervision, where appropriate, to other health and social care staff working within NLFT Mental Health services. To provide teaching and training regarding the psychological needs of the target population to other members of the multi-disciplinary team. To provide informal and appropriate spaces for staff including treatment planning, case formulation and including management of challenging behaviour and risk behaviour, staff reflective practice and staff consultation 3.3 Responsibility for Administration To screen psychology referrals from colleagues and community units To plan and organise their own workload. To ensure that all clinical and other related records are kept up to date in line with Trust policy. 3.4 Responsibility for IT and Digital Systems/Services To advise on adaptations needed to support service users making use of remote IT and digital systems used in their care. CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES To work as a senior clinician within the service, providing an advanced level of psychological expertise in assessment advice and treatment of highly complex service users. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate. To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred service users with a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours. To provide specialised psychological treatment to relatives and carers when appropriate To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of service users with complex needs To carry out direct and indirect risk assessments and management plans in line with MDT care planning. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the psychological assessment and treatment in accordance with policies of the service. To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users, who may have highly complex needs and exhibit challenging behaviours. To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to service users. OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES The postholder will be responsible for the delivery of psychological assessment and treatment, and ensure that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. POLICY / SERVICE DEVELOPMENT To contribute to the development of the service. To lead on the development and provision of psychology services RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Utilise evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual, family and group work and work with other team members. Undertake appropriate research and provide research support to other staff undertaking research. To lead on, participate in and contribute to clinical audit, QI and service evaluation with colleagues within the service, to help evaluate and improve service provision, proposing changes to working practice and procedures for their own work area as required. GENERAL All staff are responsible for their continual compliance with CQC standards and outcomes. The postholder must be aware of, and work in line with, the Trusts Safeguarding Adults and Children procedures. Receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical or counselling psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues as indicated and negotiated with line manager. Participate in an agreed programme of training and continuing professional development and maintain an active engagement with current developments in psychological practice in areas related to the post. Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and service user group. To undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of the post, as may be agreed with Lead psychologists and other Divisional leads. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT All staff are required to be appraised by their line managers at least once a year, following the first year in service, at a personal development review meeting where progress made over the last year is discussed and agreed. Focus on the following years departmental and personal objectives will be identified, discussed and agreed. Where necessary, help and support will be provided and development opportunities agreed in line with service provision and knowledge and skills competency framework.