Clinical PsychologistNHS

Job summary

Are you passionate about working with children and young people with complex mental health and neurodevelopmental needs? Are you committed to reflective and anti-discriminatory practice? Do you want to be part of an innovative, supportive and engaging team?

The Autism and Learning Disabilities Team is seeking a highly motivated and committed Clinical Psychologist with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The post-holder will provide their psychological expertise to multi-disciplinary clinical assessments, interventions and reviews of service effectiveness. Interventions that may be provided include research- and evidence-informed approaches that make a difference for the children, young people and families we work with.

This is an exciting time to be joining the service in terms of the strategic aims in the NHS Long Term Plan to ensure that all people with a learning disability, autism or both can live happier, healthier and longer lives.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be expected to offer highly specialised assessments and interventions with children and young people with disabilities and their parents/carers, within a multidisciplinary context. For this role, there is also a particular emphasis on diagnostic assessment for young people where there are concerns about social communication and interaction as well as their mental health. Relatedly, the post-holder will also support the management of the autism assessment waiting list and utilise their research skills to carry out audits and service evaluations relevant to the service.

Professional supervision is provided by the discipline and the post-holder will also be responsible for clinically supervising and managing the workload of assistant psychologists and other more junior members of staff within the service.

The team works with children and young people up to the age of 25 and has a long-standing national and international reputation for the application of psychodynamic psychotherapies and other evidence-informed approaches to meet the mental health needs of this client group. We are keen to develop our offer further and to support staff to develop innovative clinical practice in assessment and treatment, including group work as appropriate.

Job description

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

About us

Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

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?

Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.

• 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 allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.