Senior Psychologist Islington Core Team-Maternity leave cover | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,156 - £71,148 per annum Inclu HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, N7 8US |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7686906/455-NLFT-0577 |
Summary
Islington core team-senior psychologist band 8A maternity leave cover, fixed term until January 31st 2027
The North London NHS Foundation Trust is transforming its services to meet the Community Transformation Agenda. The transformation of community mental health services aims to break down the barriers to care, by integrating primary and secondary care services and delivering a model that improves access to holistic approaches, for our service users.
The poster holder will be part of the North Islington Core team providing assessments, formulations, and interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems in the London borough of Islington. The role has been combined to cover two postholders on maternity leave, to provide interventions within the newly formed Service Teams within Islington. The aim of the service is to increase the numberofpeoplewhosementalhealthsupportisappropriatelymanagedinlinewith the Community Framework for Mental Health using a population health approach.
The successful post holder will be adept at offering assessment and interventions to clients with complex and multi-faceted needs, as well as have experience of offering liaison, consultation and advice to staff in the MDT. Experience of providing supervision to junior members will also be essential. The post holder will be joining an MDT and will also be part of a cross-borough psychology system made up of 20 psychologists. The person in post will be supported by senior psychologists to deliver their role.
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.
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
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse
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.
Community Mental Health Services are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. North London Foundation Trust are at the forefront of this transformation, developing a more holistic, recovery oriented, biopsychosocial approach to supporting people with mental illnesses, in partnership with primary care, other community NHS providers and the voluntary sector. The aim is to build support systems that reach the whole mental health population with a focus on prevention and sustained recovery delivered by multi-agency collaboration. Each populationunitisbasedonthefootprintofPrimaryCareNetworks,bringingtogether NHS, voluntary sector, peer support and community organisations. These relationships will be central to the new community mental health model.
The poster holder will be part of the North Islington Core team providing assessments, formulations, and interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems in the London borough of Islington. The role has been combined to cover two postholders on maternity leave, to provide interventions within the newly formed Service Teams within Islington. The aim of the service is to increase the numberofpeoplewhosementalhealthsupportisappropriatelymanagedinlinewith the Community Framework for Mental Health using a population health approach.
The post holder will act as a fully integrated member of the team providing a specialistpsychologicalperspectivetosupportthetransformationanddevelopment of the service.
The post holder will work with multidisciplinary colleagues to increasepsychological and trauma informed practice as well as offer evidence-based interventions.Thepostholderwillprovidehighlyspecialistpsychologicalassessment and treatment using evidence-based, NICE recommended interventions and will workautonomouslywithinprofessionalguidelinesandwithinthe overallframework of the service’s policies and procedures. The postholder will be expected to oversee and offer supervision to staff working on the complex emotional needs’ pathway. This part of the post will have a cross borough reach to support the roll out of a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) pilot.
Postholderswillbepartofnewlydevelopedpsychologyhubswithineachborough as well as being integrated within Service Teams. This will support more effective co-ordination and delivery of psychological interventions within the borough.
This advert closes on Sunday 25 Jan 2026