Clinical Psychologist - Barnet CAMHS NDS Team

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Barnet CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service, based at Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware Community Hospital.

The post holder will work within a multidisciplinary team, delivering specialist neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people aged 6-18 on the ASD and ADHD pathways. You will contribute to diagnostic assessments, formulation, and pre- and post-diagnostic support, including psychoeducation and a small therapy caseload to address mental health needs.

You will work closely with families, schools and partner agencies to provide holistic, person-centred care and support access to wider services.

The service is embedded within the iThrive Framework, with a strong focus on collaborative working, shared learning, and clinical development. The team offers regular supervision, reflective practice, and access to CPD opportunities, including training in neurodevelopmental assessments and evidence-based interventions.

Barnet CAMHS Psychology is a supportive, inclusive and dynamic group, offering excellent opportunities for professional and leadership development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within the Barnet CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service (NDS), providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention for children and young people referred for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) pathways.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, contributing to the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care, supporting diagnostic assessments, formulation, and therapeutic interventions. The role involves working closely with families, schools, and partner agencies to ensure holistic care planning and improved outcomes.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Undertake specialist neurodevelopmental assessments, including ASD and ADHD
• Develop psychological formulations to identify strengths, needs, and interventions
• Deliver evidence-based psychological interventions
• Contribute to MDT discussions, care planning, and clinical decision-making
• Provide consultation and advice to families, schools, and professionals
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records and reports
• Support risk assessment and safeguarding processes
• Provide supervision and support to junior staff where appropriate
• Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement
• Work flexibly across clinic and community settings as required

About us

Working for North London NHS Foundation Trust

Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.

• 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 allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Job responsibilities

Undertake specialist neurodevelopmental assessments, including initial assessments, and NDS assessments (ASD and ADHD)

Develop psychological formulations to guide diagnosis, care planning, and intervention

Deliver evidence-based psychological interventions

Manage a small therapy caseload within the generic CAMHS team

Contribute to MDT discussions, supporting clinical decision-making and pathway management

Provide consultation and advice to families, schools, and partner agencies

Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation and assessment reports

Undertake risk assessments and contribute to safeguarding processes

Provide supervision and support to junior staff, including Assistant Psychologists and other professionals

Contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives

Work flexibly across clinic and community settings

Person specification

Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Ability to relate clinical theory to clinical practice
• Able to construct clear care plans differentiating appropriate intervention types from a range of options, based on analysis of information from assessment
• Demonstrates the importance of gaining families' view of their strengths and needs and supporting them to be active in the goal setting process.
• Able to organize, plan and prioritize your own workload. Demonstrates ability to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management.
• Ability to write reports using accessible language and demonstrating clinical reasoning.

Desirable

• Understanding of evidence-based clinical practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences good clinical practice.
• Confident and experienced in delivering training or providing consultation to other professionals
• Experience of drawing upon attachment models and parent-infant relational models.

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential

• Doctoral level training in Clinical, Educational or Counselling Psychology as accredited by the HCPC and BPS

Desirable

• Post qualification training in Infant Mental Health e.g. Parent Infant Psychotherapy, Video Interaction Approaches and Parent-Infant Group Approaches, Infant Observation Perinatal Clinical Psychologist Training

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of parent infant dyads with severe and complex relational difficulties.
• Experience of working in a mental health setting, managing, and monitoring risk
• Experience of working with nursery, school and parents and engaging them in interventions
• Experience of formulating the difficulties within the parent infant relationship based on a variety of assessments including observation of the dyad, where formulations integrate information from range of sources.
• In depth knowledge of child development and factors influencing the developing parent infant relationship
• Experience of working in or with community perinatal teams or midwife teams and understanding of maternal and paternal mental health
• Experience of working therapeutically with children and families

Desirable

• Knowledge of NICE guidelines related to infant mental health and evidence of working in line with NICE recommendations.
• Experience of working with children/ young people with social communication differences such as autism and ADHD
• Resilience to working with infants in traumatic circumstances, and to offer containment to other team members impacted by the emotional impact of the work.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• A resilience to working with infants in traumatic circumstances, and to offer containment to other team members impacted by the emotional impact of the work
• Proven ability to work as part of a team.
• Demonstrates empathy with clients, carers, and families often where barriers to understanding exist ensuring that effective communication is achieved to persuade and motivate participation in therapeutic activities

Desirable

• Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Ability to work flexibly at different bases within the borough and occasionally outside of the borough
• Flexible approach and openness to innovation