8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Psychosis Pathway | North London NHS Foundation Trust

The post-holder will lead on psychological provision within the Psychosis Pathway of the Haringey East Core Community Team, providing extended assessments, formulations and psychological therapies (individual and group) to those presenting with psychosis and other severe mental health, physical health and social needs. The post-holder will also provide consultation, reflective practice, psychological support and training to colleagues from the MDTs and partner agencies, and supervision and management as required to other psychological staff in the teams. The post-holder will act as a fully integrated member of the team, leading on highly specialist psychological provision to service users with psychosis and co-occuring complex needs, and their families, with the aims of supporting recovery, promoting mental and physical wellbeing and optimise independence and social inclusion. You would work directly with individuals, groups and families from a wide range of diverse backgrounds, providing tailored assessment, formulation, consultation and interventions for psychosis, bipolar and co-occuring psychological difficulties such as trauma. You would work closely with MDT colleagues and other agencies to provide psychologically informed care, through joint working, training, consultation, supervision and reflective practice. You would also have opportunities to work creatively and innovatively and undertake service development, service evaluation, quality improvement (QI) and research. You would be expected to practice as a senior independent clinician and work autonomously within professional guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, supervising and managing other psychological staff in the team as required. Please contact us to discuss any request in variation to the advertised hours. Please also get in touch with any other enquiries about the role: we welcome hearing from you. 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. Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk