Job Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join our busy team. You will play a pivotal role within the Op COURAGE Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Service within NHS North London Foundation Trust. Op COURAGE operates in a range of community settings to support consistent access to care and treatment.



This role will have a research-focused orientation, involving supporting senior staff members in audit, patient and service-related data collection, management and analyses, and research activities, ensuring that Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Research Governance and local Partnership guidelines are adhered to, resulting in the collection of high quality data. Your work will involve both patient-facing and data administration work.



You will help raise awareness of clinical outcome data collection amongst colleagues and service users, and will help to embed better data collection and management systems within clinical teams. You will also help in the writing up of service-related reports, presentations and research manuscripts for publication.



Your office base will be at St Pancras Hospital.



The post holder will liaise with the members of the multi-disciplinary clinical team to establish procedures for data collection and service evaluation/research focused activities. Part of this will involve attendance at various team and partnership level meetings.



The role will involve gathering appropriate assessments and rating scales, engaging in qualitative and quantitative data collection, as well as transferring existing data to electronic format and new databases. The creation and updating of appropriate databases to aid data collection and storage will also be included.



The post holder will also undertake qualitative interviews with patients, carers and relevant stakeholders regarding aspects of care and service delivery; and provide ongoing information, advice and support to patients (and carers/ families) regarding clinical data collection, service development and clinical research.



Maintaining adequate patient records and ensuring accurate data collection is key.



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.



4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.



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

The postholder will be aligned with our Values :

We Are Kind We Are Respectful We Work Together We Keep Things Simple We Empower We Are Proudly Diverse

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 post holder will have a competent knowledge and understanding of the Department of Health Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care and ICH GCP Guidelines.



The successful candidate will also assess and evaluate the progress of on-going audits, service evaluations and research projects and provide regular updates to the senior clinicians and managers, local line manager and other appropriate staff.



Attendance at local and national meetings in relation to service development and research will also be required.



Good communication skills are required, due to engagement with various stakeholders, including veterans and their affected others who may have mental health difficulties, impaired communication skills and/or be distressed.



Communication also includes working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues in our team, and with a wide range of health and social care staff in hospital and community settings, and across the veteran sector.



The post holder will also support clinical assessments taking place across the Service.



For further details, please see the attached JD and PS.