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Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Grays
Client: NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Grays, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: ae392a61c875
Job Views: 4
Posted: 16.02.2025
Expiry Date: 02.04.2025
Job Description:
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.
Come and work for NELFT’s Children & Young People’s Mental Health Service (CYPMHS), and be part of one of the UK’s most innovative healthcare Trusts. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinical psychologist, family therapist or Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in Thanet CYPMHS.
Main duties of the job
You will:
1. Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with the CY-IAPT programme within CYPMHS.
2. Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
3. Undertake initial school based and community based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate.
4. Assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions.
5. Provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within your professional sphere of expertise in the service and will be responsible for the extensive clinical supervision of junior clinicians throughout the CYPMHS team.
Person specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
* Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice ( psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist).
Job role
* Full time post only.
* Able to work across both localities - Folkestone and Dover.
* Role requires being on site, home working at Manager's discretion and needs of the locality.
* To be able to lead MDT, senior meeting etc.
Qualification and experience
* To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body ( HCPC, BABCP, UKCP, AFT, ACP).
Qualifications and experience
* Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
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.
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.
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