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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. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video.
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 (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 (wte). According to candidate preference, the wte in the Emotional Difficulties Pathway can be swapped for wte neurodevelopmental assessment, formulation and supervision. We welcome pre-application conversations about the opportunities on offer.
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 places 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. As part of the process, new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 pro rata for part time).
High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,192 to a maximum of £2,011 pro rata for part time).
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. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
* 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 and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognized as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
* 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.
* Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
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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