Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist Brookside Adolescent Ward & YPHTT
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area: Applied Psychology
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref: 395-PP261-24
Site: 107a Barley Lane, Goodmayes, IG3 8XQ
Town: Greater London
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (Plus HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/01/2025 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
Brookside is a specialist Tier 4 CAMHS adolescent service with award-winning services. The Tier 4 services include a 15 bedded acute in-patient service and a pioneering Young-People’s Home Treatment Team. Also on site is INTERACT, a community outreach team for adolescents.
The young people admitted to the Tier 4 services usually have complex mental health difficulties and present with high-risk behaviours (e.g. self-harming/suicidal behaviour) and/or acute episodes of depression, psychosis or other indicators of a complex mental health need.
There is a high level of multi-disciplinary working, and overall there is an intensive therapeutic approach including MDT assessment and formulation and individual, family and group interventions.
Newly qualified Applied Psychologists looking for a development role may also be considered.
Main duties of the job
* Participating in the development and implementation of high standards of clinical care in CAMHS Tier 4 adolescent services ensuring the psychology service provided is needs-led, compliant with national guidance and is experienced positively by service users.
* Offering support and consultation to the multidisciplinary ward team in their work and in the provision of psychologically informed formulation and interventions.
* Exercising clinical responsibility for undertaking psychological assessment, psychological treatment and discharge planning of clients in consultation with the multi-disciplinary team.
* To assist in the supervision, teaching and coordinating of assistant and trainee psychologists.
* Taking a senior role in the clinical development of the Tier 4 CAMHS services.
* Providing high quality, trauma-informed clinical care that is focused on recovery and reintegration.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role can be discussed at the interview stage.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Applied Psychology
* HCPC registration
Experience
* Experience in Inpatient and MDT working
* Experience providing clinical supervision
* CAMHS experience
Knowledge
* A highly developed awareness of a wide range of mental health interventions and their application
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, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
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.
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
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.
Name: Dr Tirma Morera
Job title: Brookside Principal/Lead Clinical Psychologist
Email address: tirma.morera@nelft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0300 555 1156
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