Specialist Clinical Psychologist

About the Trust

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.

This part‑time role (5 hours/week for 4 months) involves coordinating a short‑term project, funded by the Greater London Authority, with the aim of improving access to psychological therapy for asylum seeking people. This project is a collaboration between the Traumatic Stress Clinic, St Pancras Hospital, NLFT, and Freedom from Torture. The project involves the development a psycho‑social infrastructure package to assist this population with accessing routes into clinical provision.

It will take the form of trauma informed and culturally sensitive psycho‑education aimed to increase understanding and self‑management of common mental health problems, with a focus on higher prevalence mental health problems, including PTSD, anxiety and depression. It will include reducing shame and stigma around mental health problems and explain how UK London clinical services work and how to access them.

• Working closely with NLFT and FFT colleagues to oversee the project activity planning and completion in a tight timescale.
• Work with colleagues, interpreters, translators, service‑user representatives and other stakeholders to develop culturally sensitive psycho‑educational information.
• Run consultation activities in groups in order to develop and test the resources.
• Develop multi‑media resources for sharing information.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure maximum reach for the materials developed.
• The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington or other locations as necessary.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating an inclusive, fair, and supportive workplace for all. We actively welcome applications from individuals who are under‑represented within our workforce and are dedicated to eliminating discrimination in all its forms.

As a Disability Confident (Two Ticks) employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role and are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

By applying for this role, you accept that, in the event you are successful, 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 cost savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and manager 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.