Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,156 - £71,148 Per annum Including HCAS (pro-rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 26 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, NW1 0PE |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7702425/455-NLFT-0670 |
Summary
This part-time role (5 hours/week for 4 months) involves co-ordinating a short-term project, funded by the Greater London Authority, with the aim of improving access to psychological therapy for asylum seeking people. This project is a collaboration between the Traumatic Stress Clinic, St Pancras Hospital, NLFT, and Freedom from Torture.
The project involves the development a psycho-social infrastructure package to assist this population with accessing routes into clinical provision. It will take the form of trauma informed and culturally sensitive psycho-education aimed to increase understanding and self management of common mental health problems, with a focus on higher prevalence mental health problems, including PTSD, anxiety and depression. It will include reducing shame and stigma around mental health problems and explain how UK London clinical services work and how to access them.
The main duties of this role will include:
• working closely with NLFT and FFT colleagues to oversee the project activity planning and completion in a tight timescale
• work with colleagues, interpreters, translators, service-user representatives, and other stakeholders to develop culturally sensitive psycho-educational information
• Run consultation activities in groups in order to develop and test the resources
• develop multi-media resources for sharing information
• work with stakeholders to ensure maximum reach for the materials developed
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
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
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.
For further details regarding the job description and main responsibilities, please see the Job Description & Person Specification document
This advert closes on Friday 27 Feb 2026