An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to work within our Psychiatric Liaison team in North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH). You will co-lead on the provision of psychology input to clients referred to the team via A& E and the wards. The role will draw on psychology skills across mental and physical health.You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary staff group and will have responsibility for Clinical Associate Psychologists and/or Assistant Psychologists. You may also be responsible for qualified psychological therapists undertaking work within or linked to the liaison service and trainee clinical psychologists.

Your primary duties will involve assessment, formulation, designing short-term interventions for patients in A+E or on inpatient medical and surgical wards. For complex cases, this may be a joint review with psychiatrists and/or psychiatric liaison nurses. You will also offer structured and regular consultation to colleagues drawing from psychological processes and theories to help consider a client's presentation. You will lead on service development and developing short-term psychological interventions that may be offered by non-psychology colleagues and implementing outcome measures.

Main duties of the job

To oversee the provision of specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the NMUH Psychiatric Liaison Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, 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 formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To offer a psychological formulation for complex and/or risky patients presenting to A+E or on inpatient wards, in consultation or joint review with psychiatrists and other Mental Health Liaison Team colleagues.

About us

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C& I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services 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, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.

This vacancy has been advertised in accordance with the new NHS pay rate which will take effect from autumn 2024. Please note if your employment starts before the 24/25 pay scales are implemented you will be paid under the 23/24 pay scales and any backpay will be adjusted accordingly. Further information can be found at https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/pay-scales-202425.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For a detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description and person specification documentation that is attached to this post.

Person Specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology. Clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Further training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short course together with an evidenced based portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice with an experienced clinical supervisor, at an equivalent level to a post graduate diploma.
• Completion of a clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
• Registration with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Skills/ Abilities

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in working with people in crisis or acutely unwell.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and any relevant registration body.

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, which can include outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence.
• Substantial experience of working as a psychological therapist in the acute care setting including inpatient care.
• Experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of the supervision of qualified psychology staff.
• Experience of service development.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

Desirable

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice or specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities)
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team.
• Creative in approach as well as reflective about their own practice.
• Able to work autonomously as well as under supervision and with colleagues.
• Demonstrable leadership and management qualities.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others
• Ability to demonstrate BEH Trust Values

Desirable

• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to identify, provide, and promote appropriate means of support to staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

North Middlesex University Hospital

Sterling Way

London

N18 1QX

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306-BEH-2206