Main area: Psychological Professions in Mental Health & Wellness Teams
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 395-HV013-25
Site: The Petersfield Centre
Town: Romford
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/03/2025 23:59
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.
Job overview
To provide assessment and evidence-based interventions for clients presenting with complex secondary care needs, including group and individual work to the Havering Psychological Professions within MHWTs.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide specialist psychological assessments for service-users referred to psychological services in Havering based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex, sensitive data.
2. Lead on providing group-based and individual art psychotherapy interventions to service users referred to the PPs in MHWTs in Havering.
3. Provide interventions in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice.
4. Implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups.
5. Have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
6. Be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate qualification in group psychotherapy accredited by UKCP.
* NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.
* Training in quality improvement.
Experience
* Working with people with complex mental health needs including psychosis.
* Experience of ensuring equality of access and acceptable intervention to diverse populations.
* Experience of providing other specialist therapies to patients with diverse clinical presentations.
* Knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues, risk, and highly complex mental health problems.
Knowledge
* Thorough knowledge of the theory and practice of evidence-based interventions for people presenting with complex mood, anxiety, and personality difficulties.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of group psychotherapy.
* Theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for a broad range of complex mood, anxiety, and personality difficulties (treatment-resistant depression, complex trauma, OCD, BDD, personality disorder).
* Well-developed knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management.
Skills
* Capacity to work psychotherapeutically on a group basis with individuals experiencing severe and enduring mental health problems and psychological distress.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Ability to resolve difficulties affecting working relationships and to offer support to staff, service users, and carers on an ongoing basis.
* Capacity to cope with frequent exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.
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.
* 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 and staff psychological support.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to accommodate flexible working arrangements. Speak to us about how we might be able to support you.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.
You are advised to regularly check your emails for correspondence related to this post.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Will Crane
Job title: Psychological Professions Lead for Havering MHWT
Email address: will.crane@nelft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0300 555 1082
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