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Main area AHP Grade Band 8a Contract 12 months (12 months fixed term cover) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm) Job ref 455-NLFT-0283 Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Holly Oak, Edgware Community Hospital Town Edgware Salary £61,631 - £68,623 Per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 07/08/2025 23:59 Band 8aThank 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. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to join the Barnet CAMHS Service for Children and Adolescents with Neurodisability (SCAN). SCAN is a multidisciplinary team who provide assessment and treatment for children & young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities who are experiencing mental health difficulties , neurodevelopmental differences and where challenging behaviour may be present. The team incorporates psychiatrists, psychologists, family therapists and other allied health professionals and provides excellent opportunities for career development and continued development of leadership skills. Main duties of the jobThis post is full time, for a fixed term (one year) contract and is based at Holly Oak Clinic Barnet HA8 0AD. The successful applicant will join a warm and welcoming team and will be responsible for carrying out psychological, neurodevelopmental and neuropsychological assessments andspecialist therapeutic interventions in the clinic as well as in the community and in school-based settings. The post holder will carry a caseload and will be expected to deliver a high-quality innovative service for young people and their parents and carers, using research and good practice guidelines. In addition to having a multi-disciplinary approach, informed and embedded within the I Thrive Framework. There is a strong focus on further developing clinicians’ skillset and learning from each other. We offer high-quality individual and group supervision, as well as space for reflective practice. There are many CPD opportunities within the team and across North London Foundation NHS Trust; over the last year training has includedPBS,ADI-R,ADOS training and ADHD assessment CPDs. The postholder will be supported by North London Foundation NHS Trust- senior clinical manger/s and psychology leads at the local and Trust level. The Job Holder will be expected to support their team, department and organization to achieve the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work. These are: · Working together Working for our organisationNorth 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. 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 responsibilitiesPlease see JD. The Job Holder will provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist assessment and intervention service for children and young people referred to the neurodevelopmental assessment and to provide this service to their carers/parents and families. · The Job Holder will provide and/or support the provision of evidence based neurodevelopmental and psychological interventions for service users. This will include providing specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the Neurodevelopmental team. The Job Holder is expected to liaise with and offer advice or consultation on clients’ psychological care to parents and/or carers, colleagues, professional and non-professional staff in mental health services and appropriate agencies. · The Job Holder will undertake risk assessment and risk management for clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. Person specificationEducationProfessional qualification in clinical psychology or counselling psychology Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) Experience of undertaking neurodevelopmental assessments including autism and ADHD Practical experience administrating ADOS-2 Practical experience administrating 3di or ADI-R Experience of cognitive assessments (WISC-V, WPPSI-IV, WAIS-IV) Additional specialist training relating to NDS/Mental Health SkillsBasic awareness of IT and IT skills Strong commitment to teamwork and development Good written and verbal communication skills Implementing audit or research in a healthcare setting Skills in providing consultation to professional and non-professional groups ExperienceExperience in providing consultation to professional and non-professional groups Excellent knowledge of neurodevelopmental conditions and related mental health problems Experience in managing risk Experience of providing teaching and training 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 first50applications 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 badgesYou 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 Daniel Keith Job title CAMHS Community Nurse Interim Barnet ND Lead Email address d.keith@ Telephone number 0208 702 4500#J-18808-Ljbffr