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.
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
Job Overview
An exciting role for a Principal Clinical or Counselling in a trailblazing Mental Health Urgent Care Department (MHUCD), Basildon Hospital Band 8b per annum plus fringe allowance - 37.5 hours per week.
MHUCD is a gateway to either community provision or to acute inpatient services offering a service for people with a first presentation mental health crisis; plus also people who are known to mental health services who are in crisis.
This is an opportunity to offer direct psychological services (assessment and brief intervention) to people who are experiencing their first mental health crisis - and an opportunity to make a real difference to their onward care. This would be alongside supporting and developing the psychological skills across the whole team and working across the urgent, inpatient and community pathways.
Main Duties of the Job
* You will lend your expertise to formulations, consultation and brief interventions to allow for a rich understanding of the person and their system.
* You will develop/deliver staff training & complex case discussion.
* Your work will be crucial to facilitate integration with other parts of the system (e.g. social care, primary care, VCSEs and specialist services).
* You will work autonomously within professional guidelines.
* You will ensure MHUCD provision is evidence based, meets practice and Trust standards, while providing clinical leadership, evaluation and monitoring of relevant therapeutic, standardised assessments and outcomes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
* Doctoral level Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification
Desirable Criteria
* Additional CPD relevant to role
Registration
Essential Criteria
* Accredited and registered HCPC
Experience
Essential Criteria
* Worked in complex, crisis, urgent care or inpatient mental health services
Desirable Criteria
* Principal level experience
Equal Opportunities Employer
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. #J-18808-Ljbffr