About the role
Salary: £66274.00 to £73496.00
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Psychologist or Psychotherapist to join the multi-disciplinary Community Team in the Camden and Islington Personality Disorder Service in North London Foundation Trust. The post-holder will join the Team Manager, and Consultant Psychiatrists in leading the team which is made up of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Nurses.
The main duties of the role are:
- To provide psychological assessments for referred clients.
- To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients with a range of problems, 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 psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
- To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision to junior psychologists, trainee clinical and counselling psychologists and assistant psychologists.
- To provide senior clinical input for the management of complex cases held by the service
- To provide advice, consultation, training and supervision, where appropriate, to other health and social care staff working with the client group.
- To regularly attend and facilitate group supervision.
Deputising for Community Team manager
Support with managing caseload and assessment allocations in the team
Formal and informal complaints