[ref. c70412217] Band 7 Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist Adult Learning Disabilities - Enfield

Job overview

Are you aspirational about the lives of people with learning disabilities? Then join Enfield Integrated Learning Disabilities Services (EILDS)!

The successful clinical or counselling psychologist must enjoy working in community settings, and have a commitment to evidence-based practice, service development, and client and carer participation.

The post holder would work in a variety of psychological approaches including systemic, trauma informed, DBT, CBT and positive behaviour support.

Strong engagement skills and the ability to work creatively with people and their families and complex multi-agency networks are essential.

We are proud to be the Trusts Team of the Year 2024.

Fortnightly clinical supervision would be offered to the post holder, and peer support. We actively encourage CPD, including developing as a clinical supervisor and in leadership opportunities.

We welcome pre-interview discussion/ visits.

Main duties of the job

Clinical:

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological assessment and intervention/treatment and/or management of a client’s challenging behaviours, mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about intervention/treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of users whose problems are managed by psychologically based assessments/interventions.

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:

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.

• 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, and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The postholder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

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.

Enfield, North London has excellent transport links and easy access to the city and the countryside.

Enfield Integrated Learning Disabilities Service is a successful health and social care service, providing a wide range of support to people with learning disabilities, their families and support networks.

We are fully committed to working with people with learning disabilities to increase their independence and inclusion and to support people to maximise control over their lives.

ILDS has a supportive and inclusive culture, encouraging personal and professional development, high levels of collaborative working and an environment where people's views are respected and listened to.

Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person specification

Training and Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or registered for, and actively pursuing, the Statement of Equivalence in Clinical Psychology.
• HCPC Registration

• Additional qualifications in research or therapy at MSc, Doctorate or Diploma level

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of work with people with significant learning disabilities in community and in-patient settings
• Experience of provision of specific evidence based therapies to adults with learning

• Experience of receiving and providing supervision
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts

knowledge and skills

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of adapted psychological therapies for people with learning disabilities and mental health difficulties.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Other

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting.

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework including through the use of interpreters.
• Personal experience of mental health problems.