Clinical or Counselling PsychologistNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist to join NLFT's Older Adult Psychology Team.

This is part-time Band 7 post working on our Older Adult Inpatient Wards and in Islington Services for Ageing and Mental Health (SAMH) Community Mental Health Team.

You will be part of a large Older Adult psychology service comprised of Clinical, Counselling and Assistant Psychologists. Special interests in the service include Systemic Psychotherapy, EMDR, ACT, working with carers and research. .

We welcome applications from people who are enthusiastic about working with older people, including those qualifying in 2026.

This post will be capped at 25 applicants.

Main duties of the job

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.

Job description

Please see attached job description for full details of the post and outline of main responsibilities.

We are happy to speak with any interested candidates who would like to know more

About us

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

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• 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.

Why NLFT?

• 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.