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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Practitioner Psychologist/ Psychological Therapist to join the NELFT Clinical Health Psychological Services (CHPS). This is a senior 0.8 WTE split role that involves working across two services for adults and their families: 1) Long Term Conditions (LTC) Psychology Service in Barking & Dagenham, and 2) CHPS in Waltham Forest.
The post holder will be required to be an autonomous practitioner and to have expertise in managing referrals, triaging patients and signposting referrals, sitting on a panel to consider referrals with other mental health services in Waltham Forest and in Barking and Dagenham, such as Talking Therapies, Mental Health and Wellness Teams and other relevant secondary mental health services, and psychiatric liaison services/voluntary services. A solid and robust understanding and knowledge of mental health presentations and clinical risk is hence essential, as is the ability to offer consultation and advice to non-psychology staff in risk assessment, and clinical health presentations. The postholder will offer a clinical psychology perspective on cases, which will include neuropsychological assessments and interventions when required.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide a specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment service for patients with LTC, carers and their families, who are referred with complex mental health difficulties in relation to their physical health.
2. Delivering at least 2-3 high quality specialist clinical interventions in line with national guidance.
3. To provide comprehensive mental health needs and risk assessments of referred patients and carers.
4. To be an active and integrated member of the LTC multi-disciplinary team.
5. To sit on a panel with other B&D mental health services to triage psychological referrals in lines with the stepped-care model.
6. To be a key member of the broader NELFT Clinical Health Psychological Service, and to provide specialised training and consultation to other professionals working across different tiers of service.
7. To provide supervision to newly qualified and trainee clinical/counselling psychologists, psychotherapists, assistant psychologists and/or staff or students as appropriate.
8. To take responsibility for the analysis and reporting on key performance targets (KPS's), as set in the SLA with NHSE, taking appropriate action in collaboration with the Operational Lead for Clinical Health Psychological Services and the Community Lead Psychologist leading CHPS.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist/ UK Registration as a psychotherapist/counsellor, eg UKCP, BABCP, BACP registered
* Experience of delivering psychological therapy to a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems, reflecting the full range of clinical severity, across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, and inpatient settings, within the NHS
* Commitment to working collaboratively in a multi-professional team
* High level knowledge of clinical risk, and how to effectively assess, manage and communicate risk information, at times within crisis situations in a community setting.
* Knowledge and ability to work with long-term health conditions
* Up to date knowledge of NHS legislation, NICE Guidelines, and key developments in the field of Clinical Health Psychological Services
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
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