Principal Therapist for Talking Therapies

1 week ago


Romford, 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 excited to be recruiting an in-house EMDR Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our Psychological Professions’ Workforce Team. NELFT is committed to delivering the highest quality of care to all Users of Service across our entire geographic area (North East London, Essex and Kent), including the delivery of EMDR. We want to ensure parity of access to evidence based treatments by suitably trained professionals irrespective of residents’ locations. The successful candidate will be both a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and an accredited EMDR Consultant. They will hold responsibility across the Trust for overseeing the delivery of EMDR and will spearhead the creation of a strategy for EMDR for NELFT.

Main duties of the job

The provision of supervision, both individual and group, is an essential part of this role. The post holder will be an experienced supervisor who shows flexibility in style dependent on the needs of the supervisees. The post holder will manage contracts of externally procured supervision where needed which will involve assuring quality and credibility of the supervisory offer.

Working for our organisation

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).

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.

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 pro rata for part time).

High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,192 to a maximum of £2,011 pro rata for part time).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be skilled in networking and building relationships with different individuals across the system to be able to explore means of further developing EMDR and trauma provision for different populations. They will be experienced in coproduction and will be aspirational in co-design and co-delivery of trauma informed trainings to colleagues.

Person specification

qualification

Essential criteria

proof of EMDR consultant status

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Doctorate in Clinical / Counselling Psychology

Experience

Essential criteria

extensive experience of supervising EMDR trainees

knowledge

Essential criteria

knowledge of NHS systems and relevance of EMDR

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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