Clinical Psychologist Transitions & PDS Islington

Job overview

We are seeking an energetic, innovative, and skilled Psychologist with a passion for working with Young Adults working in North London Foundation NHS Trust’s Young People Service as a clinician within the Transitions and Personality Disorder provision (Islington). This is a secondment opportunity, with funding in place for a Psychologist to seek a secondment opportunity (4 months) which could serve as an interesting CPD opportunity to cover the substantive post holders maternity leave.

The Trust's Young People & Transitions Service  works with young adults (18-25), providing Consultation, Liaison, Assessment and Treatment around Young Adults’ mental health.

The Personality Disorder Service is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of a specialist Community Team, Therapies Team and Liaison Team.  The service provides secondary care interventions to people who have difficulties characterised under the umbrella of a 'personality disorder' diagnosis. As a specialist service, the team also support the work of ICNs and the Crisis Care pathway within the Trust, with the aim of supporting staff to work more effectively with adults with complex mental health problems, including personality disorder.  This post provides an opportunity to work as part of a supportive, reflective and motivated team, committed to working compassionately with people with difficulties characterised under the umbrella of a severe 'personality disorder' diagnosis, specialising in young adults.

Main duties of the job

JOB SUMMARY

The post-holder will be responsible for championing the needs of young people (18 to 25) in the Personality Disorder Service. The post-holder will influence the culture and practice of the service, providing assessment and treatment interventions for young people, facilitating the smooth transition of young people from CAMHS to adult services, and offering supervision, advice and consultation on young people’s psychological care to the PD community and specialist treatment teams, to the new Core Teams, to referrers, to other non-psychological colleagues and other non-professional carers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young people.
• To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to young people.
• To provide psychological assessments of young people using  using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
• To conduct joint assessments of young people with the Core Teams when there are queries around personality related difficulties.
• To develop a PICT model (Psychologically Informed Consultation and Training) for primary care management of young people presenting with PD
• To develop flexible practices within the PD service to facilitate the engagement of young people (18-25) with the service.
• To work closely with local CAMHS services to facilitate smooth transition of young people from CAMHS to adult services. ·

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.