Job summary
Employer heading
7/8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Stroke Service
Band 8a (Preceptorship at Band 7)
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 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 and values
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.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an 8a (or Preceptorship Band 7) Psychologist to join the Community Stroke Psychology Teams in South East Essex. We welcome applications from psychologists who are newly qualified, as well as from those with more experience. The post holder will work with individuals and families post stroke and alongside a team of dedicated psychologists working in stroke care locally and across the region. The services have been established for over a decade and are seen as integral to the community stroke pathways by our partners and ICB leads. The services have grown in this time and alongside outpatient and community work we are embedded in the multidisciplinary stroke teams (Early Supported Discharge Team and the community rehabilitation ward) based at Rochford Hospital in Rochford. Travel to visit people in their homes is expected in the surrounding areas of South East Essex.
This can be offered at Band 7 on a Preceptorship to Band 8a for Newly Qualified Psychologists.
Professional development is important to us and we have varied CPD opportunities, supported by robust supervision and appraisal structure. The post holder will be supervised by the Principal Psychologists in Stroke. Attached to this post is up to £6000 of CPD funding, calculated pro rata, over the course of three years, as we want to provide staff with high quality training to meet needs and ensure that we are offering the best possible interventions to the populations we serve.
Main duties of the job
The psychology service provides neuro/psychological assessment, one-to-one and group interventions for individuals who have experienced stroke and their families, alongside collaborative work with our MDT teams in joint sessions, consultation and training. Therefore, knowledge and skill in psychological therapy and neuropsychological approaches are fundamental to this post. This will be supported through supervision and peer relationships in Clinical Health Psychology Service. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring high quality care is delivered in a timely manner in line with client needs, our wider services and national guidance.
The Clinical Health Psychology Team has good relationships with local Clinical Psychology doctorate courses. The team contributes to teaching and provides placements for trainees at different stages of training.
In Clinical Health Psychology Services (CHPS) we work in the interface between physical and mental health, which provides unique opportunities for relationship building and service development. In CHPS South and Mid Essex peer support and collaboration is encouraged and there are other services e.g. Mental Health Liaison, Long COVID, Breathlessness, where psychologists have a range of therapeutic interests; narrative therapy, systemic approaches, acceptance and commitment therapy, motivational interviewing and cognitive behavior therapy.
Working for our organisation
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
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We acknowledge there can be commutes within Essex, and that London salaries command inner weighting. However, the Psychological Services Directorate is committed to investing in you as an individual and in your career development. EPUT highly respects and values psychological thinking and we welcome you to join our team.
Please see the detailed job description and service specification attached to this advert.
If you would like an informal conversation about this post please contact:
Dr Precious Koce, Principal Clinical Psychologist on [email protected]/07867558371
Dr Amy Bartlett, Head of Clinical Health Psychology on [email protected]/07507773397
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completed Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Has completed further training in an area appropriate to post
Registration
Essential criteria
- Has HCPC registration as a practioner psychologist
Engagement & Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstates interest in working in Clinical Health/Liaison setting
Desirable criteria
- Has had experience of working in Stroke services or neuro related field
- Demonstrates understanding of the complexities of working in physical health settings
- Demonstrates a desire to work collaboratively with people using services
Skills
Essential criteria
- Has a least two theraputic modabilites that they are practiced in
Desirable criteria
- Has undertaken further training in theraputic modalties which are appropirate to post
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
- Dr Precious Koce
- Job title
- Principal Psychologist in Stroke for South Essex
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07867 558 371
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