Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist in Developmental Trauma
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area Clinical or Counselling Psychology in Developmental Trauma Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent: Full time Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9-5) Job ref 395-PP047-25
Site Wood Street Health Centre Town Wood Street Salary £53,755 - £60,504 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 03/04/2025 23:59 Interview date 29/04/2025
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.
Job overview
Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in Developmental Trauma: Children Looked After Champions Team, Waltham Forest CAMHS (8a Full time, permanent)
Are you a trauma-informed practitioner passionate about the needs of looked after children, and keen to work in a friendly and dynamic DDP-informed team? We have an exciting role for an experienced CLA specialist to develop their clinical and leadership skills as our Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in Developmental Trauma.
We are looking for applicants experienced in working with looked after children or with significant transferrable skills and relevant knowledge and training. You will ideally be trained in DDP approaches (or willing to undertake training) to support our existing provision of specialist DDP-informed interventions for carers and schools.
Main duties of the job
You will provide direct therapeutic work (individual therapy, group work and parent/carer workshops), clinical supervision, and consultation and training to health, education and social care professionals. You will be passionate about ensuring the child’s voice is central to the work you do and work in partnership with families/carers and other agencies to achieve the outcomes desired by the child or young person. Clinical supervision and line management will be provided by the Strategic Lead for Children Looked After.
Alongside your main role in the CLA Champions team (0.7 whole time equivalent), you will be part of a large and friendly psychology team made up of clinical and counselling psychologists, CBT therapists, multidisciplinary trainees and assistant psychologists. Your senior clinical leadership role will include promoting trauma-informed practice and attachment-aware thinking in the wider service. You will promote co-production with those with lived experience and contribute to service development. You will provide supervision and consultation in the Emotional Difficulties Pathway where clients present with moderate to severe emotional difficulties, and hold a small caseload (0.3 wte). According to candidate preference, the 0.3 wte in the Emotional Difficulties Pathway can be swapped for 0.3 wte neurodevelopmental assessment, formulation and supervision.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
* We are kind.
* We are respectful.
* We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
NELFT place great importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description for full details of the role and responsibilities, or get in touch to discuss these directly.
Person specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
* DDP training
Experience
* CLA experience
* Broad NHS CAMHS experience
Knowledge and skills
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.
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