Transitions & PDS Psychologist/Mental Health Professional Camden

Main area Young Peoples Service Grade Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Short term funding) Hours Part time – 0.7 session per week (This is for a 0.7WTE role in Islington Transitions Team/PDS) Job ref 455-NLFT-0285

Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Personality Disorder Service Town London Salary £56,276 – £63,176 Per annum including HCAS (pro-rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 07/08/2025 23:59

Transitions & PDS Psychologist/Mental Health Professional Camden

Band 7

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

We are recruiting to cover the established post-holder\’s role while they are on their 12 months maternity leave. It\’s an exciting role, jointly hosted by the Trust\’s Young Adults and Personality Disorder pathways, specialising in working with Yong Adults (18-25) who are making the transition from CAMHS to AMHS as they reach their 18th Birthday.

The transition of young people from child and adolescent services (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS) can be problematic . This role has been developed to assist with the assessment, risk management and care planning from the age of transition so that young people presenting with complex emotional needs are more ready and open to the way adult services work.

The post-holder will be responsible for championing the needs of young people (18 – 25) within the Camden and Islington Personality Disorder service. You will be required to work flexibly, independently and responsively within a dynamic working 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 personality disorder or enduring complex needs. Applicants need to be confident in providing case consultation to staff from a variety of professional backgrounds and have significant experience of multi-disciplinary team working.

Main duties of the job

The main focus of this role will be to provide assessment and therapeutic intervention to young people presenting with complex emotional needs, facilitating the smooth transition of young people from CAMHS to the adult personality disorder service. Alongside this, our work involves supporting the wider network to work more effectively with young adults who present with complex mental health problems, specifically \’personality disorder\’. The post holder will provide support through:

• Staff case consultation (either individually or in group session)
• Liaison and navigation between different services in the care pathway
• Training
• Direct working with service users – including assessment and therapeutic case holding

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To provide psychological assessments of young people using the PD service, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.

· To conduct joint assessments of young people with the Core Teams when there are queries around personality related difficulties.

· To provide a training and consultation model for primary care management of young people presenting with PD

· To provide flexible practices within the PD service to facilitate the engagement of young people (18-25) with the service.

· To work closely with local CAMHS services to facilitate smooth transition of young people from CAMHS to adult services.

· To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for young people with a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours, and to provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.

· To provide advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of young people using the service.

· Opportunities for developing therapy offers to young people who are under the PD service.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

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Person specification

Education & Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and current registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist OR qualification in another mental health profession (e.g. mental health nursing, occupational therapy) and qualification in cognitive behaviour therapy and working towards eligibility for registration with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
• Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post

Experience

• 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 Experience of working with young people with severe and enduring mental health problems

Skills

• Experience of working with young people who struggle to engage with mainstream services Significant post-qualification experience working with the client group of the post or a related client group Experience in the supervision of appropriate evidence based psychological interventions Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision Experience in psychological assessment and therapy in different cultural contexts

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Caoimhe McWilliams Job title Service Manager C&I Personality Disorder Service Email address c.mcwilliams2@nhs.net Telephone number 02033176999

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