Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,524 - £62,652 Per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 May 2026 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 6SA |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7824138/455-NLFT-0742 |
Summary
This Band 7 Clinical / Forensic Psychologist role is based within the Enable Substance Misuse Service, delivered by North London NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Waythrough and the London Borough of Enfield. The postholder will work across Vincent House and the Old Magistrates Court, Enfield, within a multidisciplinary forensic and tertiary care setting
The role involves providing highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions for individuals with substance misuse and complex needs, including those with forensic histories. The postholder will work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines, contributing to formulation, treatment planning, risk assessment, and care coordination as part of a wider MDT.
In addition to direct clinical work, the psychologist will lead and develop psychological provision within the service, offering consultation, supervision, training, and reflective practice to colleagues. There is a strong expectation of involvement in service development, audit, quality improvement, and research activity, aligned with the Trust’s trauma‑informed and co‑produced care agenda.
The role suits a practitioner with a strong interest in trauma‑informed, attachment‑focused approaches, and offers opportunities for CPD, research, and specialist therapy training (including Schema‑Focused Therapy and EMDR.
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.
• Provide specialist psychological assessments, integrating complex data from interviews, observations, psychometric measures, and collateral information from families and professionals.
• Formulate and implement psychological treatment and management plans using evidence‑based approaches across a range of care settings.
• Deliver a range of psychological interventions to individuals, families, carers, and groups, adapting formulations and interventions as required.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users managed under psychological care plans.
• Provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to MDT colleagues and other professionals involved in service users’ care.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management, advising colleagues on psychological aspects of risk.
• Act as Care Coordinator where appropriate, including CPA planning and review.
• Contribute to the design, delivery, and evaluation of psychological services within substance misuse and forensic pathways.
• Provide consultation, training, and reflective practice to MDT staff to support psychologically informed care.
• Support the development of psychological skills within the workforce, including supervision of psychological work undertaken by others where appropriate.
• Contribute to pre‑ and post‑qualification teaching and training in clinical and/or forensic psychology.
• Use research skills for audit, service evaluation, policy development, and research activity within the service.
• Contribute to the Trust’s focus on quality improvement, innovation, and evidence‑based practice.
This advert closes on Sunday 26 Apr 2026
The role involves providing highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions for individuals with substance misuse and complex needs, including those with forensic histories. The postholder will work autonomously within professional and Trust guidelines, contributing to formulation, treatment planning, risk assessment, and care coordination as part of a wider MDT.
In addition to direct clinical work, the psychologist will lead and develop psychological provision within the service, offering consultation, supervision, training, and reflective practice to colleagues. There is a strong expectation of involvement in service development, audit, quality improvement, and research activity, aligned with the Trust’s trauma‑informed and co‑produced care agenda.
The role suits a practitioner with a strong interest in trauma‑informed, attachment‑focused approaches, and offers opportunities for CPD, research, and specialist therapy training (including Schema‑Focused Therapy and EMDR.
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.
• Provide specialist psychological assessments, integrating complex data from interviews, observations, psychometric measures, and collateral information from families and professionals.
• Formulate and implement psychological treatment and management plans using evidence‑based approaches across a range of care settings.
• Deliver a range of psychological interventions to individuals, families, carers, and groups, adapting formulations and interventions as required.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users managed under psychological care plans.
• Provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to MDT colleagues and other professionals involved in service users’ care.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management, advising colleagues on psychological aspects of risk.
• Act as Care Coordinator where appropriate, including CPA planning and review.
• Contribute to the design, delivery, and evaluation of psychological services within substance misuse and forensic pathways.
• Provide consultation, training, and reflective practice to MDT staff to support psychologically informed care.
• Support the development of psychological skills within the workforce, including supervision of psychological work undertaken by others where appropriate.
• Contribute to pre‑ and post‑qualification teaching and training in clinical and/or forensic psychology.
• Use research skills for audit, service evaluation, policy development, and research activity within the service.
• Contribute to the Trust’s focus on quality improvement, innovation, and evidence‑based practice.
This advert closes on Sunday 26 Apr 2026