Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
North London NHS Foundation Trust
London, N7 9NYView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£58,133 to £65,261
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 November 2026
10 days leftJob description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist to join NLFT's Older Adult Psychology Team. This is part-...
The post holder will work part-time in NLFT's Older Adult Psychology service, dividing their time between the in-patient wards and our Community Mental Health Team in Islington.On the inpatient wards they will provide psychological assessment and treatment to patients with dementia and other mental health conditions. They will offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to referrers, non-psychologist team colleagues and other professional and non-professional carers. They will work alongside our other inpatient Clinical Psychologists.
In Islington SAMH CMHT the postholder will work alongside other psychologists and provide a psychology service for clients under this team. This will include psychological assessment and treatment of older people with severe and enduring mental health needs and / or dementia. They will work with patients, their families, carers and systems though individual work, group work and indirect work. They will offer advice, consultation on client's psychological care to referrers, MDT colleagues and non-professional carers.
The role is likely to included opportunities for delivering training and contributing to the supervision of assistant psychologists and trainees working in the service as appropriate.
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 will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
- 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
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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Experience / Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of working with older people with mental or physical health needs
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and intervention/treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, residential care homes and in-patient settings
- Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges
- Experience of working with people with dementia
Skills
Essential
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently
Desirable: - Skills in running Reflective Practice or similar
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
21 October 2026
Last checked
23 October 2026
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