Psychotherapist/Psychologist/Family Therapist

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 delighted to be expanding our core CAMHS leadership capacity who work across the ONEL (outer North East London) patch. This role makes an exciting addition to our team by including nursing leadership, alongside our psychological and medical leadership colleagues. The role will be instrumental in shaping how nursing roles within CAMHS teams in acute and community settings can develop within modern, psychologically informed child and adolescent mental health services. This is a brand new role with the scope to help shape services in the outer north east London area. 

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include: 

To set, implement and evaluate clear, achievable and measurable clinical objectives for Children’s Mental Health Services 

To initiate and implement programmes to achieve strategic changes and improvement to services and systems.

To deputise when required in the Director’s absence and delegate appropriately to clinical and administration staff.

To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly safeguarding.

To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.

To ensure that there is a research culture within the services. To co-ordinator the implementation of R&D activity within the service, ensuring that all research and development activity is monitored and reported in accordance with the Trust R&D Governance guidelines. This may include securing external funding or supporting multi-disciplinary research.

To provide strategic and clinical leadership and liaise with commissioners at CCG and CCG area levels across multiple contracts.

To provide clinical quality control and to ensure adherence and competence to evidence- based models in clinical staff.

To support the development of nurse therapist roles as part of a multi-professional workforce plan.

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 focussing in 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 - Outer London

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description for full range of responsibilities and areas of leadership expected with this role. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

NMC registered post grad qualification relevant to role first degree relevant to role

Desirable criteria

relevant management qualification knowledge of MHA

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Extensive experience of multidisciplinary working and clinical supervision in mental health services Previous experience in middle management or clinical leadership with children and young people services Proven experience of successful management of organisational change Successful track record of strategy formulation and implementation in mental health services

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to form effective working relationships with the multidisciplinary team Ability to write detailed reports on present and future services using research methods as appropriate Ability to present and disseminate information both at a senior and field level

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.

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