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
The post holder will be an experienced and enthusiastic HCPC Registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist interested in applying Community Psychology principles and strategic skills as the Lead Clinician in our Vanguard Violence Reduction Project (VRP). The Vanguard VRP is an innovative partnership project with Waltham Forest Local Authority, funded by NHS England. The project aims to build the capacity of community organisations working with some of the most vulnerable and socially disadvantaged young people in our borough. You will be the lead clinician of a small NELFT health team (Psychology and Speech and Language Therapy), delivering a clinical model in collaboration with our partnership agencies.
Vanguard VRP health team takes a consultation led approach, working alongside youth workers, community workers, functional family therapy practitioners and family support workers, ensuring that specialised health knowledge is shared in the community. The post holder will be passionate about working with the professional network to come up with creative solutions to support children and adolescents for whom traditional health services do not meet their complex emotional and social needs. There are opportunities to co-produce new service models with our established community partnership agencies.
Main duties of the job
* Leading, developing, implementing and evaluating the clinical model for the Vanguard Violence Reduction Project (VRP)
* Building capacity in partnership community organisations through delivery of training, workshops and reflective practice groups
* Sharing specialist health and child development knowledge with non-health professionals and para-professionals and ensure this knowledge guides practice
* Joining other professionals and community workers in direct work with young people to facilitate trauma-informed mental health formulations and access to statutory services as needed
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Post-graduate doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology
* Professional registration with the appropriate body (e.g. HCPC)
Experience
* Experience of working with adolescents and families where there are high levels of risk and complexity.
* Substantial post qualification experience of supervising other staff, psychologists and other professions.
* Extensive knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues, issues concerning forensic risk and highly complex mental health problems.
* Experience of working in a multicultural context
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 and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
* 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.
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