# Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist **Company**: North London NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Enfield **Job type**: temporary **Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9455-26-0815?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_82b19b39-f14 ## Description An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Enfield Older People's Psychology Service, to work as part of various multi-disciplinary teams across Enfield Older People Mental Health services within NLFT. This is a fixed part-time post (0.5 wte) to be based at Chase Farm Hospital site in Enfield. The Enfield Older People's Psychology Service is a small, friendly and supportive, growing team of psychologists. We would very much welcome either a newly qualified or experienced clinician, who is highly motivated and has the necessary skills to work with Older People presenting with a range of issues, often with high levels of complexity, offering assessments and suitable interventions. **Main duties of the job** - Provide psychological assessments of referred clients, using interview, formal psychometric, neuropsychological and other assessment methods as appropriate. - Formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients, and provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service. - Provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients. - Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. - Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. - Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of care. - Develop effective links with the range of agencies, statutory and non-statutory, involved in providing care and support to clients and families/support networks. - Advise service users, their carers and other agencies on the promotion of good mental health. **Benefits** - NHS Discounts - Generous annual leave - NHS pension scheme - Excellent internal staff network - Flexible working and health and wellbeing initiatives **Person Specification** - Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology - Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management - 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 - Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting and establish constructive working relationships across services and care agencies ## Skills ### Required - complex methods of psychological assessment - intervention and management - communication skills ### Nice to have - neuropsychological assessments - specialist psychological assessment and intervention/treatment of people across the full range of care settings --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9455-26-0815?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)