Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical/Counselling Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 395-WF
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South Forest Centre
- Town
- Leytonstone
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
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
An opportunity has arisen for a vibrant, suitably qualified, HCPC registered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our dynamic Mental Health and Wellness Team (MHWT) secondary care adult mental health psychology service. This is a permanent, full-time post in the secondary care. This post involves carrying out psychological assessments and interventions, offering consultation and supervision to psychologists and members of the multi-disciplinary teams.
This post would suit someone with a strong interest in multidisciplinary working, working with service-users who present with complexity and significant levels of risk. The post holder will join a well-established and supportive group of psychologists offering outpatient psychological therapy. The group includes people with skills in Compassion Focussed Therapy, CAT, Schema Focussed Therapy, Mindfulness and EMDR – as well as specialist CBT.
Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with secondary care mental health problems within the NHS is essential. A keen interest in working with this client group is essential as well as the ability to apply evidence-based psychological therapy approaches and work with autonomy and flexibility.
Additional specialist training in advanced therapy skills, such as CBT, as well as experience in teaching and delivering training, would be desirable. Experience and/or interest in setting up, running and/or co-facilitating groups would be desirable.
Main duties of the job
The post holder would join a well-established and well-respected team of psychologists. We are a friendly, collaborative and supportive team who deliver time-limited and structured individual and group psychological interventions to adults with complex mental health difficulties. The team includes approximately fourteen qualified psychologists.
We are keen to recruit people who share that vision of contributing to best practice, national guidelines and an evidence base. We offer excellent development opportunities including high quality and regular supervision, opportunities to supervise, teach on local DClinPsy courses and involvement in research.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working for our organisation
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of 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 will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include 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 focussing in 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 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Have a doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
2. Be able to provide a highly skilled psychological service to clients with secondary care (non-psychosis) mental health difficulties. Duties include: psychological assessment, and therapeutic interventions (individual and group) to adults with complex mental health difficulties. This role will include the provision of enhanced specialist psychological clinical assessment, evidence-based therapeutic interventions, and psycho-education, working within the policies, procedures and protocols applicable to the service.
3. Have highly developed skills in the assessment and management of clinical risk and mental health conditions, and to undertake risk assessments and risk management for patients with complex mental health conditions providing expert advice to colleagues on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and its management and effectively documented in a timely manner when needed.
4. Deliver a culturally and ethically sensitive, equitable psychological therapy service to all minority groups regardless of race and ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, culture, religion, and disability; to include service users in the design and delivery of the service.
5. To work closely with multidisciplinary members of other mental health teams ensure effective multi-professional communication and decision making.
6. To offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
7. To contribute to the support of trainee clinical or counselling psychologists or psychotherapy/ counselling trainees on accredited training courses.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- HCPC registration or eligibility
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral qualification in a further evidence-based intervention (e.g. CBT, MBT, EMDR, CAT)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in secondary care level adult mental health NHS settings.
- Experience delivering specialist CBT interventions in secondary care NHS settings
- Experience working within NHS multi-disciplinary settings
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, supervision or training of other mental health professionals in secondary care mental health
Skills
Essential criteria
- Psychological assessment, formulation and interventions with complex clinical presentations in secondary care settings
- Skills in offering psychological consultation, training and/or supervision to non-psychologists in secondary care NHS settings
Desirable criteria
- Skills in auditing and evaluating care pathway delivery.
- Skills in undertaking post-doctoral research in NHS settings
- Evidence of skills in delivering groups in secondary care settings.
- Psychometric testing skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Edward Bloomfield
- Job title
- Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 555 1267
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