Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in LD Psychology – South Essex
Band 8a
Main area: Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in LD Psychology – South Essex, AFC Band 8a. Contract: Permanent. Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week. Job ref: 364-A-8607-A
Site: 3 Heath Close, Town: Billericay. Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum. Salary period: Yearly. Closing: 30/03/2025 23:59
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.
* 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.
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 Empower
Job Overview
Grow your psychology career in learning disabilities today and jointly lead a vibrant team to improve and implement care provision for adults with learning disabilities considering assessment, intervention, and therapeutic support.
We can support successful candidates with an £8k relocation package and up to £6k CPD funding (calculated pro rata) + 5% HCAS allowance.
Essex University Partnership University Trust’s Learning Disabilities Psychology and Behaviour Therapy Service in South Essex is expanding. This is a great time for a highly motivated clinical or counselling psychologist passionate about transformation to join the team and develop the service.
We seek professionals motivated to change lives by focusing on patient care that helps individuals flourish, focusing on their well-being and self-determination and aiming for their optimal development. This will be applied via a strength-based approach to their learning disability practice.
Roles are available as part of a well-established, highly professional multidisciplinary team of psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, and nurses.
We offer multiple options for further professional development through wider collaborative working with the Essex Learning Disability Partnership, including the development of neuro-developmental disorders, dementia, and challenging behaviour pathways.
This post is also open to newly qualified psychologists who will be appointed at Band 7 and work through a preceptorship towards Band 8a.
Main Duties of the Job
Responsibilities:
* Work with individual clients to enable them to live their best lives, involving their family/carers, support staff, and others involved in their lives.
* Provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data.
* Formulate plans for psychological treatment and/or management of the presenting difficulties based on appropriate conceptual psychological frameworks.
* Evaluate treatment options, considering theoretical and therapeutic models and assisting clients in making decisions about treatment options.
* Manage a team of assistant psychologists and trainee counselling/clinical psychologists.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
* Utilise your research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* HCPC registered as Clinical or Counselling Practitioner Psychologist.
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Skills/Experience
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Doctoral level of knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Important: Please ensure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing epunft.cv19hr@nhs.net.
Come and work at EPUT and make a difference in people’s lives.
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