Islington Core Team Psychology Lead - Principal Clinical​/Counselling psychologist

About us

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.

• 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.

Our trust website is: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). We are transforming North London Foundation Trust Teams in line with the NHS Long Term Plan and the NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20 - 2023/24 and are looking for skilled, innovative clinical and counselling psychologists to join us. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of more integrated ways of working in mental health.

The transformation of community mental health services aims to break down the barriers to care, by integrating primary and secondary care services and delivering a model that improves access to holistic approaches for our service users. The role will provide an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to lead the psychological provision in Islington Core Teams.

The post will join a multi-disciplinary leadership team to develop and operationally manage an integrated and enhanced community approach to clients experiencing mental health difficulties.

• Work closely with Operational and Clinical Leads to ensure delivery of a high quality, accessible, and inclusive psychological service well integrated within community teams.
• Play a key part in the implementation and management of newly developing psychology hubs within each borough to support more effective coordination and delivery of psychological interventions.
• Draw on a range of psychological approaches to help establish psychologically and trauma‑informed practice within the teams and wider service area through delivering and overseeing interventions, providing consultation, training and reflective practice as required.
• Engage in service development, quality improvement and innovative practice in line with transformation objectives.
• Collaborate with other psychological professions and partner with health, social care and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCS).
• Work flexibly, independently and responsively within a changing environment; enjoy outreach and multi‑agency joint working.

• Experience working with people with complex mental health difficulties from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
• Experience in direct working with service users with complex needs; supervision and line management experience is essential; experience of service development.
• Confidence in liaising and communicating with staff from a variety of professional backgrounds and experience of multi‑disciplinary team working.
• Flexibility to work independently and responsively within a changing environment.

By joining the team during this exciting time of transformation, you will have a unique opportunity to inform and shape the implementation of our clinical strategy, develop your leadership skills and improve mental health care for people living in Camden and Islington.