Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-NEW7121152
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newham University Hospital
- Town
- Plaistow, London
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 per annum Inc HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2025 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
The core purpose of this post is to contribute to the systematic provision of a highly specialist, multilevel clinical psychology service that is cost-effective, culturally appropriate and based on best clinical and professional practice and that meets the
Psych Liaison team and Trust objectives, national strategic and policy guidelines, commissioner requirements and user and
carer needs and expectations. This includes:
Helping to understand, prevent and ameliorate
psychological distress and disorder and improve the
mental health and wellbeing of local service users in the Acute Trust and to support development of services and pathways which enhance patient experience and
improved outcomes
Work with acute crises and interface with acute settings. Supporting the Critical Care Clinic with the management of psychological consequences of trauma,
Offering timely and responsive psychological
assessments and interventions.
Assessing diverse and complex presentations to provide a psychological formulation to assist with treatment
planning.
Providing brief focussed psychological interventions
(1:1, couple, family and groups) suited to the needs of the Service User.
Work with clients presenting with risk of significant
harm to self or others or from others.
Providing Consultation/Teaching/Training to junior
practitioners such as trainees and assistants and
colleagues from other disciplines such as nursing and medicine in applied psychological methods, theory and practice
Main duties of the job
The post holder will need to consider appropriate psychological
treatment pathways and link with psychologists in other teams and the wider Secondary Care Psychological Services.
To develop and support the work on providing culturally appropriate, recovery orientated and socially inclusive services.
To operate as an integrated and active member of the team, placing the patient at the centre of service planning and delivery
Be responsible for the provision, planning and development of
evidence based psychological therapies service for people referred to the Dept of Psychological Medicine
Clinically supervise and co-ordinate the work of assistant
psychologists, trainee psychologists and other psychological therapy staff where appropriate.
To provide specialist advice to the hospital teams and voluntary
sector agencies concerning the assessment, treatment and
management of patients accessing the team.
Formulate and undertake clinical audit and research.
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
Be responsible for choosing and providing appropriate highly
specialist psychological assessments in both acute ward and A&E settings, when care is managed under the Psych Liaison team and associated teams in the Crisis Care Pathway.
Employ a broad theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information in order to develop a highly specialist understanding and to design specialised intervention programmes tailored to individual need, including psychological and
neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and assessments with patients
and others involved in their care. This can include the interpretation and explanation of the results of cognitive and neuropsychological tests in the context of the service user
difficulties and the communication of these findings to those involved in the network of care and in care planning.
Be responsible for direct delivery of a broad range of specialist
psychological interventions and programmes which require the
modification of plans and strategies as practice and experience
demands.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into
account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, development and cultural processes and systems which have shaped the individual, family or group.
Undertake highly specialist risk assessments from a psychological perspective and provide psychologically based programmes of risk management for individual clients, and to provide advice to other
professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and
management.
In completing clinical duties, exercises autonomous professional
responsibility for the psychological assessment, treatment, and
discharge from psychological care, of referred clients and other
clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
Be responsible for providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive, distressing and emotional information in relation to mental health
issues, where there are often barriers to acceptance.
Spend sustained amounts of time with service users who may be
aggressive and hostile, who may have poor communication skills and self care and special physical and/or mental health needs.
Communicate across language and cultural barriers, including
working with interpreters.
Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical
work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients, e.g. service users, families and carers, other
professionals, MAPPA and other formal panels and statutory and
voluntary organisations, orally, in writing and/or electronically, and as specified by the service.
Engage in interface/liaison work to ensure joined up care pathways across settings. Take the lead for a specified area for
interface/liaison work as required.
Take into account the particular needs of people from minority
ethnic groups, and adapt assessment, formulation and intervention
as appropriate.
Person specification
Training/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council.
Desirable criteria
- Brief Interventions such as CBT, DBT or psychodynamic
- Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as an 8a Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist or extensive experience of work as a Band 7 qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in adult mental health NHS settings
- Experience of working with people who experience psychosis, personality disorder and complex depression and anxiety.
- Demonstrable experience of working within a recovery orientated and socially inclusive framework.
- Experience of providing a clinical service to a multicultural population
- Able to deliver teaching and training events.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in psych liaison setting.
- Work in a multi- cultural setting, including working with interpreters
- Experience of consulting to individuals or groups.
Cultural awareness
Essential criteria
- Understanding and awareness of the potential impact of racism, discrimination & disadvantage on the mental health of Black and ethnic minority people.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential criteria
- Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings
- Able to assess, including the use of a variety of measures and tools including the use of basic neuropsychological assessment tools
- Able to plan, organise, prioritise and manage own complex workload
- Up to date knowledge of psychological research and national guidance relevant to the client group
Desirable criteria
- Able to provide a cultural competent service.
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
- Laura Pisaneschi
- Job title
- Consultant Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07572 140 863
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