Main area: Mental Health & Wellness Team Psychological Professions
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm)
Job ref: 395-PP019-25
Site: Petersfield Centre
Town: Romford
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum plus HCAS (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/02/2025 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. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the NELFT Mental Health and Wellness Team Psychological Professions (MHWT PP).
The MHWT PP offers a range of evidence-based therapeutic interventions for clients suffering from secondary care mental health conditions.
We are working in the context of high demand and need, with limited resources. The capacity to constructively respond to these demands is important. We are looking for someone who has the capacity to engage resiliently with their work, can remain open and active in working towards changing cultures, challenging perceptions, promoting therapeutic interventions, and developing service provision.
The service is operationally based within the Havering Directorate of NELFT, and the successful candidate will receive clinical supervision from the Havering Lead Psychologist. NELFT has a strong commitment to staff development, and the post holder would have close association with other Psychological Services to support continuous professional development.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be skilled and experienced in the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other time-limited therapies, as well as having knowledge of DBT, EMDR, and experience in group work delivery. A broad range of therapeutic skills will be advantageous to the applicant. The core task of the post holder will be to offer these evidence-based psychological interventions, both to groups and individuals, to people who present with such disorders and related mental health problems.
In addition to the clinical duties, you will be required to assist the pathway lead in the delivery of services. This may involve assisting in administrative duties as determined by the lead and taking team link-worker functions in conjunction with other related services (such as Talking Therapies, MHWTs, etc.).
You will undertake in-depth therapeutic assessments, draw up accurate formulations, and make clear and decisive clinical judgments. Your work of assessing may lead to therapeutic treatment or may go towards supporting the thinking and care-planning of colleagues and/or teams working directly with the individual in related services. A robust understanding of, and capacity to manage clinical risk, challenging behaviour, and safeguarding issues is a vital component of the clinical work of this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist
* Core mental health profession or a demonstrable working knowledge of NHS values, clinical structures in secondary mental health care, referral pathways, how services are funded, and the roles of NHS professionals.
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent if trained before 1996) or BPS statement of Equivalence and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist)
* Additional training in specialised psychological assessment and interventions
Experience
* Supervising others (Trainee Clinical Psychologists, Assistant psychologists)
* Working with people with complex mental health needs to include psychosis
* Assessment and treatment planning for clients with complex needs, including psychosis
* Experience of ensuring equality of access and acceptable intervention to diverse populations
* Experience of planning and exercising clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
* Experience of providing other specialist therapies to patients with diverse clinical presentations.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Skills
* Highly skilled at collaborative working and providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Ability to co-ordinate the recording and reporting of clinical information as required.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of more than one psychological approach to therapy and assessment in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g., complex needs, self-harm, personality disorder, psychosis, dual diagnosis, substance misuse, persons with additional disabilities, etc.)
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g., complex needs, self-harm, personality disorder, psychosis, dual diagnosis, persons with additional disabilities, etc.).
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 and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
* 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.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community makes to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
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.
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