This is an exciting opportunity to join the NHS Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service - Op COURAGE. We are recruiting an assistant psychologist to work in this busy multidisciplinary team supporting specialist assessments and delivering veteran-sensitive interventions. Part of the role will also be in contributing to audit to inform service delivery. The service, whose London hub is based at St Pancras Hospital, operates in a range of community settings to support consistent access to care and treatment. The post holder will predominantly work with cases requiring urgent care or at-home visits, working across the London region. Op COURAGE is an NHS-led partnership alongside three Forces-friendly charities, Walking with the Wounded, Stoll and The Ripple Pond. We offer a proactive, mobile, wrap-around treatment service which bolsters existing NHS care, including crisis services operating on a 24/7 basis. It aims to offer immediate psychological, social and other stabilization options, to secure longer-term treatment for veterans, including the reduction in crisis admissions and shortening of inpatient stays. We are seeking an individual who has a particular interest in working with veterans, and who is keen to develop their skills in trauma-informed practice. The role will involve liaison with other services involved in client care; involvement in setting up and writing up assessments, supporting care planning, signposting and making referrals to other services where necessary. The post holder may also hold their own caseload, offering mental health support such as psycho-education and symptom management sessions, behavioural activation sessions and supporting clients with social integration. The post-holder will also play a key role in supporting veterans’ friends, family and carers, and in contributing to the processes around the assessment and support provided to the significant others of veterans. As part of this, the successful candidate will create and sustaining good working links with military and charitable organisations in the sector, particularly family-focused ones such as ‘The Ripple Pond’. Insight into supporting military veterans and their significant others is highly desirable. The successful applicant will contribute to governance and audit within the team. The post holder will operate to the requirements of the service operational policy and strategy, and deliver safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care in a timely manner to veterans. The post holder will be expected to work core hours 9 to 5pm, and in addition may be required to work flexibly outside these hours depending on service requirements. Working for North London Mental Health Partnership The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership. Why choose to join the Partnership? • We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart. • Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses. • Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors. • Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff. • We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more. • Generous Annual Leave Allowance • NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services. • We have excellent internal staff network support groups. The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars. The post holder will support and enhance the psychological care of clients within the Adult Autism Diagnostic & Consultation Service and Adult ADHD Clinic. They main role of the assistant psychologist will be to support the team with referral screening and diagnostic assessments, under the supervision of a clinical psychologist. The post holder will be trained to conduct informant report interviews to contribute to the diagnostic process, as well as support clinicians with other aspects of the diagnostic assessments. Additionally there will be opportunities to support with psychological assessment and group intervention, including co-facilitating group workshops, within the Adult ADHD Clinic. The post holder will also contribute to clinically relevant administration such as responding to enquiries, liaising with service users, and booking appointments. They will attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings on a weekly basis. They may also work on designated projects within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures, including conducting audits and service evaluations. This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024