Senior Psychologist Core Team-Maternity leave cover

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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.

Our trust website is: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..no

Islington core team‑senior psychologist band 8A maternity leave cover, fixed term until January 31st 2027

The North London NHS Foundation Trust is transforming its services to meet the Community Transformation Agenda. 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 poster holder will be part of the North Islington Core team providing assessments, formulations, and interventions (individual and group) to those presenting with severe mental health problems in the London borough of Islington. The role has been combined to cover two postholders on maternity leave, to provide interventions within the newly formed Service Teams within Islington. The aim of the service is to increase the number of people whose mental health support is appropriately managed in line with the Community Framework for Mental Health using a population health approach.

The successful post holder will be adept at offering assessment and interventions to clients with complex and multi‑faceted needs, as well as have experience of offering liaison, consultation and advice to staff in the MDT. Experience of providing supervision to junior members will also be essential. The post holder will be joining an MDT and will also be part of a cross‑borough psychology system made up of 20 psychologists.

The person in post will be supported by senior psychologists to deliver their role.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• 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 post holder 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

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…