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.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
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
Our strategic objectives
* We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
* We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
* We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
* We will help our communities to thrive.
Job overview
We are delighted to invite applications for a maternity leave cover post across two EIP teams in South Essex. This is for 12 months from November 2024 - November 2025.
The EIP teams are friendly multi-disciplinary teams working in the community of South Essex (including Southend, Basildon & Thurrock) providing evidence-based services in innovative ways to people experiencing a first episode of psychosis. The teams are separate but closely connected. There are a number of psychological services staff in the teams who enjoy: the clinical work; the teamwork; the autonomy; and also the career development opportunities.
As a specialist mental health service, EIP is based on NICE-recommended interventions which include comprehensive assessment and psychological interventions for psychosis or co-existing mental health problems (e.g. depression, anxiety, emerging personality disorder, substance misuse). These activities are often supported with family interventions, carer support, recovery/care coordination, social prescribing, education/employment support, physical health checks and (within EIP) medical input. The Psychologists are an integral part of the EIP multi-disciplinary teams.
Main duties of the job
* Provide psychological assessments of service users, utilising information from health, social care, education and employment contacts, as well as direct contact with the service user and their carers.
* Utilise complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
* Formulate and implement plans for psychological treatment and/or management of the service user's mental health problems based on appropriate conceptual frameworks and employing methods of efficacy.
* Deliver evidenced-based psychological interventions.
* Plan, set up and deliver evidence-based group psychological interventions.
* Work in partnership with service users, carers, ARMS and EIP teams, wider health and social care services, community assets and statutory and voluntary sector services.
* Promote family/carer understanding and support for service users' recovery and assist them in regaining and maintaining their place in the community.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who share 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information or an informal chat please contact one of the Principal Clinical Psychologists: Dr Sarah Pennington (sarah.pennington3@nhs.net); or Dr Alison Fell Consultant Clinical Psychologist & ACD (Alison.fell2@nhs.net).
Please also refer to the Job Description or Person Specification for a detailed list of responsibilities.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Professional qualification in the form of a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent.
* HCPC Registered
* Experience of working in adult mental health and with complex and serious mental health problems.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
* Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practical within the clinical fields of psychology.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in psychosis services.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists/psychological therapists.
Skills/Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of two years (or if less, an application would be welcomed from a band 7 looking for the opportunity to complete their preceptorship before moving up to an 8a).
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of frequently highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Use of CBT with complex cases.
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered 'suitable alternative employment' to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
Important Professional References
Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.
Equal Opportunities Employer
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email epunft.recruitment.adverts@nhs.net and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
Covid Vaccination
Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.
If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing epunft.cv19hr@nhs.net.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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