Assistant Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £32,199 - £34,876 Per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 April 2026 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 6NZ |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7817323/455-NLFT-0700 |
Summary
The Services for Adolescents and Families in Enfield (SAFE) providesa comprehensive, rapid and flexible service for the most urgent and acute problems facing troubled adolescents, including self-harm and mental health crisis from Age 13-18yrs.
This will include Young Persons presenting with Psychosis, Neuro-diverse, Autistic Spectrum Disorder needing intensive input and outreach work.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• To co-deliver groups, workshops and training 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 Neuro-developmental disorders.
· Record all clinical information in line with trust policies.
· Support service development and quality improvement projects.
· Support with running groups for the Team with Clinicians.
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.
• 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.
• 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Mar 2026