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Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

3 months ago


Barking, Greater London, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

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

We are looking for an experienced and passionate clinical or counselling psychologist to take on a leadership role within the Barking & Dagenham's secondary care psychological services.

This is a new post, which represents an increased recognition of the importance of psychological input and leadership within secondary care settings including the exciting addition of Community Psychology within the service provision.

The post holder would join a well-established and well-respected team of psychologists who are passionate about supporting users of service and their families in receiving quality care. We are keen to recruit someone who shares the vision of contributing to best practice, national guidelines and an evidence base but is flexible and creative in the development of innovative practice. We offer excellent development opportunities in the form of specific trauma training including high quality and regular supervision, opportunities to supervise, teach on local DClinPsy courses and involvement in research. We are a supportive, dynamic and ambitious team.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide operational and clinical leadership for psychologists working across secondary care mental health services as well as supporting the implementation of good practice guidelines. The post-holder will also be required to support with ongoing projects, transformation of secondary services and integration of psychology into wider mental health teams.

The post will involve both direct and indirect clinical work with users of service, their families / carers and wider systems and will include providing specialist assessment, intervention and consultation to individuals and teams.

The post-holder will be required to undertake operational tasks to support service delivery and will represent B&D psychological services at directorate level and in relevant trust-wide forums.

Working for our organisation

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 focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

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).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work under the guidance and supervision of the leads for secondary care psychological leads so will receive much support. So, we would like to encourage applicants with a range of experience. The post is for 30 hours weekly and will include supervisory responsibilities and operational leadership support. This post would suit someone with a strong interest in multidisciplinary working, working with users of service who present with complexity and significant levels of risk and has a keen interest in service development.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health ( Addictions, homelessness, complex trauma, psychosis, personality disorder, mood disorder). Experience of working with high levels of risk and severe mental health difficulties. Experience of working with hard to engage populations and familiarity with principles of assertive outreach Post qualification experience of teaching, training and consultation to psychology and non-psychology colleagues and stakeholders Experience of leading initiatives addressing inequalities

Essential

Essential criteria

Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health ( Addictions, homelessness, complex trauma, psychosis, personality disorder, mood disorder).

Essential

Essential criteria

Experience of working with high levels of risk and severe mental health difficulties.

Essential

Essential criteria

Experience of working with hard to engage populations and familiarity with principles of assertive outreach

Benefits

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 effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised 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.