Assistant Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust

To work as an assistant psychologist within the Psychology Team, Mental Health Services for Older People. The post will primarily involve working with Haringey Memory Service (HMS). All clinical work will be under supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist and the role will include some joint work with members of the multi-disciplinary team.

The role will involve working with clients with cognitive difficulties/dementia and their carers. This will include delivering the START programme, a manualized CBT-based intervention for carers of people living with dementia, as well as managing the database of referrals to the programme. The work will also include delivering some psychological informed interventions for individuals and co-facilitating groups within the service including Cognitive Stimulation Therapy..

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

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.

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.

Clinical work will involving delivering the START intervention to family carers of people with dementia and co-facilitating the CST programme. Specific duties will be determined on the basis of skills and experience and operational service requirements, and may vary occasionally as service needs/priorities change. The post holder will need a high level of administration and organisational skills in order to manage the multiple aspects of the role. The role will include some audit and quality improvement work to support ongoing service transformation work. This will include collating Patient Experience Feedback and the development of service user involvement opportunities within the service.

This advert closes on Sunday 2 Aug 2026