Assistant Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust

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We ask that you include why you have chosen to apply for thisspecific postin the MAP Pathway in your personal statement. Applications without this won’t be considered.

Should the volume of applications be very high, we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive, reflective, and creative team to develop your skills and confidence in working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems. You will be part of a vibrant multi-disciplinary team (MDT) which is psychologically led and your clinical work will be directly supervised by a psychological therapist.

The MAP Pathway is an innovative and leading service in the treatment of complex anxiety and depression (with underlying Cluster C PD traits). It is part of the broader Complex Emotional Needs (CEN) Service, working with the complex PTSD Pathway and the PD Pathway (for Cluster B PD presentations). CEN offers specialist, psychologically informed multidisciplinary care to service users require more intensive input. A willingness to work with clients who present with interpersonal complexity is essential for this role.

Assistant Psychologists are an integral part of the MAP Pathway and their skills and contributions are highly valued. We view the role as developmental and seek to offer the support required for you to move to the next stage of your career. The role offers a broad range of experiences including: direct clinical work, operational support to the lead including managing team caseload spreadsheets and doing a monthly audit of pathway clinical activity, and opportunity to contribute to service development.

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.

4. 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.

MAP patients present as withdrawn, isolated, lonely, limited in their functioning and have multiple social and psychological needs. The aim of the team is to help increase people’s emotional, social and practical functioning, so they can engage better with relationships and meaningful activity outside of services. MAP focuses on understanding and working with the relational patterns underlying anxiety and depression. Models used within the pathway range from Schema Therapy, DBT, psychodynamic, Systemic and CBT. Essential to the functioning of the MAP Pathway is a shared responsibility approach; all risk issues and clinical decisions are held as a team.

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Oct 2026