Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-NEW7555481
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Ham Memorial Buidling
- Town
- Newham
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 per annum Inc HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
We are excited to recruit two full time 8a posts, each to be based in CIMHS North and CIMHS South:
To support the development and leadership of community psychology approaches in Newham through working with psychology and non-psychology colleagues across a range of services
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions to secondary mental health services and those in the community, particularly those with complex mental health problem, who are vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions.
To develop partnership working with local community organisations with the aim of community capacity building and co-production of psychological input. This includes supporting ongoing transformation work in line with a more flexible outreach psychological offer.
To develop, through co-production, psychological interventions that address the needs of those served including resilience and recovery, shared support, social connections and community engagement.
To offer and supervise adapted therapies with diverse communities such as Behavioural Activation for Muslim communities (BA-M), Islamic psychology and CBT-music for young black men.
Main duties of the job
Provide specialist psychological assessments of service users and carers. This is to be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and assessments with service users and others involved in their care.
Be responsible for the formulation and implementation of a broad range of specialist psychological treatment and/or management of service users’ mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to attached Job description and person specification
We are offering two roles one in CIMHS North and one in CIMHS South in Newham
We welcome informal visits to the team and/or phone calls/emails to discuss the role
Person specification
Education/Qualification/Training
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
- HCPC Registration
- Clinical supervision training for doctoral clinical /counselling psychology trainees
Desirable criteria
- Further training within systemic, narrative therapy or community psychology approaches
- Further training in a therapeutic modality relevant to complex mental health e.g. trauma interventions
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist in a multidisciplinary team for adults with complex mental health needs
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
- Experience of planning and exercising full clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training, consultation and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
- Experience of working in partnership with third sector agencies
- Experience of facilitating groups
Desirable criteria
- Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups
- Experience of developing and delivering specialist training programmes
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment
- Highly developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients in a range of settings within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation
- Highly developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
Desirable criteria
- Experience of co-production with people with lived experience of mental distress
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
- Vasiliki Stamatopoulou
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07342064272
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