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About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
* We are among the largest employers in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
* We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
"To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care".
Our Purpose
"We care for people every day. What we do together, matters".
Our Values
* We Care
* We Learn
* We Empower
Our strategic objectives
* We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
* We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
* We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
* We will help our communities to thrive.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, experienced and enthusiastic CBT Therapist/Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join EPUT's Psychological Services for mothers, birthing people and their infants.
We are pleased to offer an 8a, 0.2 wte, 9 month secondment or fixed term contract with the Essex Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS). This role provides the opportunity to build new skills in perinatal mental health and to apply knowledge and experience from other mental health settings.
The service delivers high quality support and intervention to mothers and birthing people, their infants and their families. PMHS consists of five perinatal hubs with a staff mix comprising of Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology and as well as specialist posts bringing nursery nursing social work and OT expertise. The service works with the perinatal and early year's stakeholders having established strong relationships with maternity, health visiting, secondary care mental health services and primary care services providing streamlined, timely and effective care for mothers and birthing people in the perinatal period. This post will be in North East Locality (Colchester, Harwich and Coastal towns).
Main duties of the job
The Perinatal Mental Health Service provides maternal mental health and wellbeing support to mothers, birthing people and their infants across Essex. Pregnancy and the transition to parenthood are recognised as a time when mental health difficulties and relationship stress can occur. Experience of pre-existing trauma as well as trauma during the perinatal period can have a significant impact on the experience of becoming a parent. Psychological interventions which are specific, effective, and valued by parents can support them with such difficulties; reducing distress and health care costs, whilst increasing physical and psychological wellbeing.
The main duties of this role will be to deliver specialised evidence based psychological assessments and interventions to mothers and birthing people presenting with significant mental health difficulty and complexity.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
* Season Ticket Loans
* NHS discounts for staff
* Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
* Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
* The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
* Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
* Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support the psychology team and the wider service in delivering timely assessments of perinatal difficulty.
Delivering effective and safe evidence based interventions to support perinatal mental health presentations.
To support the wider service in providing psychology consultations to understand and formulate a patient's perinatal presentation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Professional and doctoral training in Clinical/Counselling as registered with HCPC or Allied Health Professional with registration to professional bodies such as HCPC, NMC as well as a psychotherapeutic accreditation e.g. BACP.
Desirable criteria
* Post qualification training in evidence based trauma therapies.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Significant experience of working with complex mental health presentations.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working with perinatal mental health presentations.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Significant experience of consultation.
Desirable criteria
* Solid experience of MDT working and being the voice of psychological thinking and formulation.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Worked in the NHS as qualified practitioner.
Desirable criteria
* Experience and knowledge of electronic patient record systems.
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered 'suitable alternative employment' to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
Important Professional References
Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.
Equal Opportunities Employer
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email epunft.recruitment.adverts@nhs.net and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
Covid Vaccination
Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.
If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing epunft.cv19hr@nhs.net.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* Job Description (PDF, 768.5KB)
* Person Specification (PDF, 552.3KB)
* EPUT Pledge - Step into Health (PDF, 211.0KB)
* Candidate Privacy Policy (PDF, 336.6KB)
* Right to Work Information (PDF, 293.6KB)
* Employer Recognition Scheme - Gold Award (PDF, 27.7KB)
* Trust Vision and Values (PDF, 168.9KB)
* Values of the NHS Pension (PDF, 151.3KB)
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