Assistant Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,081 - £33,665 Per Annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 6NZ |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7206013/455-NLFT-0055 |
Summary
• To assist clinicians with psychological assessments of children and young people with possible Neurodevelopmental differences, including 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 assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups and workshops, where appropriate.
• To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary or multi-agency meetings, for example linking with schools.
• To engage in multidisciplinary discussions around formulation and care planning involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the supervision of a qualified professionals, including psychologist, in the CAMHS clinics, and in community settings where agreed.
• To support with waiting list oversight, team protocols, audit, service development, quality improvement projects and service user participation.
• Supporting with Neurodevelopmental Assessments, including ASD and ADHD, through report preparation, and observations.
• Supporting with waiting lists and service development.
• To co-deliver groups, workshops and trainings to parents/carers, colleagues and other professionals.
• To attend clinical meeting and in-service training as required.
• To keep up to date with new techniques and research for the maintenance and promotion of good practice especially in relation to students with neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Record all clinical information in line with trust policies.
• Support service development and quality improvement projects.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
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.
• To support specialist psychological assessments of children and young people, support the development of formulations, including the use of 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, when and where appropriate.
• To evaluate and be involved in decisions about treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models and at times highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To use supervision appropriately to consider the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• To offer support and guidance to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, as appropriate.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and where appropriate to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, with supervision and support.
This advert closes on Tuesday 27 May 2025