We have two new and exciting roles for skilled clinical or counselling psychologists to make a difference in the lives of homeless people facing multiple disadvantage. Islington council have commissioned Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust to offer this project.

These roles will involve working alongside existing services offering support to people who are rough sleeping or with histories of rough sleeping and living in supported housing.

Both roles will be based in the Rough Sleeping Team in Islington council. Some time will be spent in Islington Core Teams within the local Mental Health Trust, as part of supporting the homelessness pathway within the Trust. Post holders will be co-located with these teams and will be managed and supervised within the C&I NHS PICT Service.

The Psychologically Informed Consultation and Training (PICT) service provides amodel of consultation, training and joint working that supports the wider system to work more effectively with people presenting with complex mental health presentations, including personality disorder (not necessarily diagnosed) among other difficulties. The approach we use aims to equip staff working with complexity, with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to understand the person beyond their surface behaviours.

Main duties of the job

These roles will involve working alongside existing services offering support to people who are rough sleeping or with histories of rough sleeping and living in supported housing. The post holders will therefore offer PICT services to staff and residents in a variety of settings including hostels, council housing and those who are rough sleeping. Alongside consultation, liaison and training the post holders will be offering some direct interventions to residents where possible.

The post holders will be required to work flexibly, independently, and responsively within a changing environment. Applicants need to be comfortable with outreach and multi-agency joint working and need to have experience in direct working with services users with enduring complex needs, personality disorder, substance use and so on. Applicants need to be confident in providing case consultation to staff from a variety of professional backgrounds and have experience of multi-disciplinary team working. The above are core components of the post.

About us

At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust we have 3 key priorities which are:

• Early and Effective Intervention,
• Helping People to Live Well
• Research and Innovation

The cultural pillars that help us achieve our key priorities are:

• We value each other
• We are empowered
• We keep things simple
• We are connected

By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.

We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to equal opportunities.

Line management and supervision is provided by the PICT Team Lead, and the post holders will also work with operational leads in Islington Rough Sleeping and Housing -related Services. Links will be maintained with the Trust by attending relevant training and operational meetings, as needed.

Job description Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification, which provide detailed descriptions of the roles and requirements.

Person Specification Education/Qualifications Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) or Counselling psychology as accredited by the Health Professions Council, the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
• Current registration with the Health Care Professionals Council as a practitioner psychologist.

Desirable

• Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in an area relevant to the post

Experience Essential

• Experience of post qualification highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in relevant speciality and/or client group e.g. Addictions/homelessness/complex trauma/psychosis/personality disorder).
• Experience of post qualification highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in relevant speciality and/or client group e.g. Addictions/homelessness/complex trauma/psychosis/personality disorder).
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service users, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of teaching, training, and offering effective consultation and supervision services
• Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity.
• Experience of the application of consultation and therapy in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of specialist work with substance misuse, psychosis and/or trauma and complex trauma.

Desirable

• Experience of working in partnership with third sector agencies to deliver services.
• Experience of working with homeless people

Skills Essential

• Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment (including psychometric tests), intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Abilities Essential

• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Ability to work flexibly and across organisational boundaries, whilst maintaining your professional identity as an NHS professional.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of 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.
• Interest and ability to contribute to service development
• Ability to work creatively and flexibly
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Ability to reflect on your own practice to inform your work or interventions.
• Post qualification training in at least one or more models of relevant psychological therapy (MBT, CBT/DBT, psychodynamic)

Knowledge Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Well-developed knowledge of the clinical area where the post has designated special responsibilities
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the Health and Care Professions Council, and British Psychological Society

Desirable

• Knowledge of 'psychologically Informed Environments' and Trauma informed care

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