Principal Clinical/counselling Psychologist

You are invited to join an innovative and national award winning staff resilience hub, ‘Here For You’, to lead a new pathway delivering Patient and Staff Safety Incident (PSSI) support. This newly-funded support stream will offer psychological support and thinking to colleagues across EPUT and associated social care and charitable sector services. This service is part of a system-wide strategy to provide person-centred, holistic, trauma-informed responses to staff, enabling colleagues to sustain fulfilling, productive and purposeful working lives.

Initial work has been done within this work stream which has been highly valued, as shown by the current investment. This post is being recruited to alongside two other new posts in our Psychological Services Directorate focused specifically on provision of staff support following exposure to potentially traumatic and/or distressing circumstances at work. The successful applicant will therefore be joining at a pivotal stage for leading and shaping this new initiative.

This work stream within the wider staff support team will include; providing support leading up to and after coronial processes, offering and overseeing individual and team-based support following potentially traumatic work-based incidents, and delivering on longer-term resilience focused plans for teams affected by recurrent traumatic experiences.

To fulfil this role, you will be an enthusiastic, creative and highly motivated Clinical / Counselling Psychologist or Senior Psychotherapist. This exciting post provides an excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic and dedicated team to develop the service; making a difference to the organisational culture and embedding trauma informed working. If you want to be part of a new investment and initiative that adopts a whole-system, proactive approach to staff support then we look forward to hearing from you.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the Patient and Staff Safety Incident support for staff across EPUT and the wider Essex system. Working collaboratively with the senior leadership team, and with internal and external stakeholders, the role will involve setting the direction of the service, engaging the relevant systems and delivering a responsive and thoughtful service. The post holder will supervise other members of staff who are delivering serious incident support within Here For You and will have an opportunity to conduct clinical work alongside this leadership role.

If you would like to have an informal discussion about the post please contact:
The Trust offers excellent support for staff CPD, and post holders will be supported to gain qualifications in learning and teaching; other opportunities, for example to gain dual accreditation in a specialist area of psychological therapy, to undertake further leadership training and development, or to develop an area of research, are also available supported by the appraisal process. We have strong links with several regional universities that include research collaborations as well as contribution to teaching and placement experience.

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 Employee

**The post holder will be responsible for**:

- supervising other members of staff who are delivering patient and staff safety support within Here For You;
- working as part of the senior leadership team of Here For You and developing the direction of the service further;
- liaising with stakeholders across the Essex health and social care system to provide appropriate support to staff in partner organisations following patient and staff safety incidents;
- developing pathways both internally in EPUT and externally in order for support to be offered appropriately;
- contributing to the newly developed Trust wide structure with multidisciplinary colleagues in Safeguarding, Employee Experience, Human Resources and others in order to ensure swift and appropriate response from across departments to patient and safety incidents.