Psychology Lead (Visa Sponsorship Available)

We are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with significant experience of perinatal mental health to lead, manage and develop our team of clinical, counselling and assistant psychologists working in Maternal Mental Health (Maple Service) which is part of specialist perinatal mental health services (SPMHS) across the five boroughs of the North London Partnership. This recently revised post is an exciting opportunity for someone with energy, enthusiasm and leadership experience and qualities. You will help establish and maintain excellent services which are welcoming, accessible and which deliver high quality evidence based care.

You will join the senior leadership team in SPMHS and be part of a large psychology service across the five boroughs of North London Mental Health Partnership. The wider psychology service can offer you peer support, CPD, specialist supervision and research opportunities and guidance.

Main duties of the job:

• The post holder will lead and manage psychological therapists working in Maple Service across the five boroughs of North London partnership.
• They will ensure delivery of high-quality evidence based psychological interventions.
• The post holder will be responsible for providing / ensuring clinical and management supervision to psychology staff in the Maple Service.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the psychology team understand and operate to the requirements of the service's operational policy and strategy and that safe, evidence based, NICE concordant, effective, culturally competent and trauma informed care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.
• The post holder will play a key strategic role in expanding and developing service provision in line with national guidelines and local priorities and they will actively contribute to the evaluation of clinical services through audit and governance.
• The post holder will be responsible for providing highly skilled psychological assessment and specialist intervention to highly complex clients of one of the Maternal Mental Health Teams and will be expected to offer advice, consultation and support to other teams as needed.
• The post holder will guide and support quality improvement, involvement in research and service and carer involvement / co-production.
• The post holder will be responsible for developing the psychology workforce - leading on recruitment, identifying training needs and managing gaps in service.
• The post holder will provide advice, consultation, teaching, training and supervision to other health and social care staff working in the service and in other associated services as appropriate.

About us:

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

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practice in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance.
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Person Specification:

Qualifications/ Registrations Essential:

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and current registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist.
• Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post.

Skills/ Abilities Essential:

• Highly developed 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 perinatal mental health including challenging behaviours and Complex Emotional Needs.
• Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Experience/ Knowledge Essential:

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Substantial post-qualification experience working with the client group of the post or a related client group.
• Experience of the management of qualified applied psychologists and/or psychological therapy staff.
• Experience of leading and contributing to service development.

Desirable:

• Experience of involving service users and carers in the co-production of services.

Other Criteria:

• Strong interest in, and commitment to, working with and improving services for people under the care of perinatal mental health services.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship:

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration:

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details:

Employer name: Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Address: East Team (Enfield & Haringey): Forest Road Primary Care Centre, 308A Hertford Road, London, N9 7HD