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
"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
An opportunity has arisen for a Practitioner Psychologist to take a senior role in our team of supportive and innovative Adult Community Psychology practitioners. We work closely in integrated MDTs across the Colchester and Tendring areas of North East Essex.
We have the equivalent of 1.4 full time posts available, giving the opportunity for interested applicants to discuss flexibility in working patterns including part time hours, job share etc. We require each post holder to work a minimum of 0.6 WTE to ensure they are able to fulfil the required roles within service at this level.
In addition to offering high quality assessment, formulation, and intervention to the users of the service, the successful applicant will be involved in providing training and consultation to the MDT and other agencies. They will contribute to the development of a trauma informed and responsive service in line with the Trust's objectives.
Main duties of the job
The Principal Psychologist is responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high standard psychology service to adults within the Specialist Community Mental Health Teams, working closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist Lead for the service.
This will require a range of specialist skills and competencies in order to deliver highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people with complex mental health needs, often in the context of high levels of risk. In addition, the postholder will offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to other professionals, carers, and those otherwise involved in client-care.
The post holder will be responsible for
* continually delivering and maintaining high standards
* continuous service improvement
* leadership and development of others
* ensuring targets and standards are achieved
* continuous personal development
* building trust and developing relationships to ensure service user involvement
* data quality assurance
* ensuring information is managed and applied appropriately and effectively
* championing improvement through effective change management
* ensuring equality and diversity values underpin the day to day working of the practice area.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work autonomously within professional guidelines to provide a high quality specialist psychology service to service users, their families, and other professionals/services involved in the life and care of service users. To ensure that effective, tailored, evidence based psychological assessments and interventions are delivered to service users and their families. To deliver interventions underpinned by evidence based practice, NICE guidance, and DH guidance. To be responsible for the delivery of a high quality specialist psychology service by means of supervising, organising and managing lower graded staff.
To be responsible for utilising relevant standardised assessment tools, when clinically appropriate and sensible. To be responsible for monitoring and evaluating psychological interventions and assisting and advising on how to monitor and evaluate other non-psychological interventions, when appropriate and required.
To actively participate, with other senior colleagues, in the continuing development and improvement of services, teams, projects, interventions, and clinical pathways. Take a lead role in guiding the Trust in its compliance with NICE guidelines and DH guidelines. Take a lead role in the development, improvement and review of practices, policies, interventions, and initiatives. To take a lead role in the process of reviewing of how services, teams, projects and intervention work. To carry out audits by means of guiding, supervising and organising others. Give expert clinical advice to management about the effectiveness of interventions and models of care.
Person specification
Education/knowledge/qualifications
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or Counselling Psychology or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
* HCPC registration and Registered with a professional clinical body (BPS)
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
Desirable criteria
* Post-qualification diploma or CPD courses relating to working with adults with complex mental health needs
* supervision training in specific models of therapy relevant to the client group
Skills/experience
Essential criteria
* Evidence of competence and experience of working as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist suitable for senior responsibilities including experience of training and supervising.
Desirable criteria
* Well developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
* Experience and skills in models of therapy and experience in application to complex mental health needs
Personal
Essential criteria
* Evidence of leadership and change management skills - ability to understand the wider implications of actions.
* Ability to travel across sites
* Evidence of the ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable criteria
* Leadership/ management training
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.
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr