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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

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the newly developed Here for Staff, support service. The service was set up as part of the suicide prevention strategy and the successful candidate will work across the Trust to offer support, consultation, guidance, and brief therapeutic interventions for staff and teams. 

For more information, please contact Dr Sarah Shillingford at

Main duties of the job

Supporting managers to offer a consistent approach following a patient or staff safety incident. Providing support to staff following suicides, serious investigation processes and legal proceedings Ensuring a consistent model of supportive/debrief sessions following patient and staff safety incidents. Offering parity of offer to all staff, including bank and agency workers Using suitable data to capture the experience of affected staff.

Working for our organisation

NELFT is an innovative and creative NHS Trust, committed to creating a Just and Compassionate culture for staff and patients alike. It recent increased investment in staff support is good evidence of this.

It is conveniently located between London and Essex, so is an easy commute for many people. whilst here you will have the opportunity to develop your own skills and interests further and this is actively encouraged. you will receive good support and supervision and will be joining a family of psychological practitioners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a highly skilled psychological staff support service for staff and teams within NELFT involving: brief NICE endorsed individual and group psychological interventions and psychoeducation.  To employ core professional skills in using outcome measures and risk assessments. To provide psychoeducation to staff groups for preventative measures (such as stress management). These could include one off group sessions, or up to 8 designated sessions. To facilitate critical post-incident support for individuals and teams. To work flexibly and independently, as an autonomous clinical practitioner, with the support of Staff Support service colleagues. To actively support reduced waiting times for staff and teams referred for support. To offer advice and consultation on staff psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. To work closely with managers and teams, and in this capacity to offer consultation, training and supervision to non-psychology staff when required. To work closely with other colleagues in in NELFT, to be able to demonstrate a high standard of clinical skill, multidisciplinary engagement and flexibility. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research, To enhance the psychological profile of staff support by attending and contributing both to in-house meetings and external specialist interest groups. To deliver a culturally and ethically sensitive, equitable psychological service to all groups regardless of race and ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, culture, religion, and disability; to include staff users in the design and delivery of the service.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

HCPC registration as a psychological practitioner or BABCP registered practitioner

Desirable criteria

Additional specialist training in advanced therapy skills, such as CBT, EMDR, Mindfulness

Interest

Essential criteria

Interest in working with staff teams post critical incident, and who are often highly stressed

Desirable criteria

Interest in developing new skills and techniques that are shown to be effective in staff support

Experience

Essential criteria

At least two years post-qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users within the NHS. At least two years post-qualification experience of delivering psychological interventions to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts, and presenting problems

Desirable criteria

Experience of delivering group/psycho-education work

Teaching

Essential criteria

Experience of teaching, training, and / or supervision.

Desirable criteria

Experience of supporting and supervising research projects, audit and service evaluation.

Skills

Essential criteria

Well -developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, with staff and other professional colleagues post critical incident and high levels of stress.

Desirable criteria

Skills in providing consultation to professional colleagues.

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.