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
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/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 psychologists 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.
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.
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.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
* 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
Skills/Experience
Essential criteria
* 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.
Covid Vaccination
Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT. #J-18808-Ljbffr