Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work within the Barnet Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIS) Team as a one-year secondment. As an embedded psychologist, you will support the EIS Psychology Lead to provide a high-quality psychological service to service users referred to the EIS team. This psychological work will include both direct working with service users and their family members as well as indirect working through consultation, formulation, and psychologically informed input into team meetings. Collaborative joint working with the wider multi-disciplinary team is an integral part of this role. You will also be supporting the team as they work towards their Early Intervention in Psychosis Network (EPIN) accreditation.



The post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary Barnet EIS. They would be expected to:

1) Offer a psychological therapies service providing:

a. Highly specialist assessment



b. Highly specialist formulation



c. Direct provision of therapies covered by NICE guidelines and the National Standards for Early Intervention, including in particular CBTp, to individuals, families or groups.



2) Offer advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to non-psychological colleagues and to professional and non-professional staff through:



a. Joint and collaborative working with other members of the team to assist engagement.



b. Joint therapeutic work.



c. Psychological consultation and input to the team and in multi-disciplinary meetings.



d. Structured internal supervision or consultation groups, and reflective practice.



e. Post-incident support and reflections for the team.

3) Demonstrate professional skills to:

a. Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the service's policies and procedures.



b. Provide supervision and teaching to mental health service staff.



c. Use their core professional training for some, or all, of the following purposes: research, undertake audit and contribution to policy and service development.



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:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.



With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all



We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.



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



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.



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