Job summary 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. We know that moving across services can be stressful and make it harder difficult to engage with unfamiliar professionals/ environments, resulting in poor rehabilitation and repeat attendances at crisis services. Your role will help understand, prevent and ameliorate such and other distress and improve the mental health and wellbeing of local service users. You will play a key part in a specialist service that is cost effective, culturally appropriate and based on best clinical and professional practice, to meet Trust objectives, national strategic, and policy guidelines, and user and carer needs. Main duties of the job You will lend your expertise to formulations, consultation and brief interventions to allow for a rich understandingof the person and their system. This could inform goal setting and shape interventions. Depending on need and complexity, this could mean up to 3 sessions as clients move and are seen in another service, supporting continuity of care in a trauma-informed way. This will support everybody involved to develop mutual understanding/ rapport while co-producing a "passport" to inform care across the 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) and therefore, facilitate development of relationships and consideration of opportunities for service development/joint working. You will be in a prime position to champion wider system understanding across a wide geographical patch and integrated care system. You will work autonomously within professional guidelines. You will work on ensuring MHUCD provision is evidence based, meets practice and Trust standards, while providing clinical leadership, evaluation and monitoring of relevant therapeutic, standardised assessments and outcomes. About us EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares 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. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment Join our Staff bank What is Staff Bank? Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times. All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish. If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank. Date posted 14 March 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 8b Salary £64,337 to £74,415 a year per annum incl. 5% Fringe High Cost Allowance Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time, Job share, Flexible working Reference number 364-A-8659-A Job locations Basildon Mental Health Urgent Care Department Basildon SS16 5NL Job description Job responsibilities Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for a detailed list of responsibilities. Job description Job responsibilities Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for a detailed list of responsibilities. Person Specification Qualifications Essential Doctoral level Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification Desirable Additional CPD relevant to role Registration Essential Accredited and registered HCPC Experience Essential Worked in complex, crisis, urgent care or inpatient mental health services Desirable Principal level experience Person Specification Qualifications Essential Doctoral level Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification Desirable Additional CPD relevant to role Registration Essential Accredited and registered HCPC Experience Essential Worked in complex, crisis, urgent care or inpatient mental health services Desirable Principal level experience Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Address Basildon Mental Health Urgent Care Department Basildon SS16 5NL Employer's website https://eput.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)