Senior Practitioner

4 weeks ago

Dagenham, 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

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the NHS Talking Therapies Barking and Dagenham service for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated fully accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or registered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the management team for hours per week.

We are keen to offer this opportunity to a clinician with at least 2 years experience in a primary care mental health team/Talking Therapies service. The post holder will demonstrate high standards of supervision, strong leadership and a commitment to team working. The main aspect of the role will be to provide line management and clinical supervision to members of the team and some involvement in project management.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have a Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or a Clinical/Counselling Psychology doctoral qualification and be fully accredited with the BABCP and or HCPC with at least two year post qualification experience.

The post holder will have completed training in supervisory practice and have one supervisory experience. 

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

COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.


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 – London
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

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Post Graduate Diploma in CBT or Doctoral level in Clinical/Counselling Psychology BABCP accreditation or HCPC registered Be trained, or training in second IAPT modality High Intensity Supervision Training

Desirable criteria

Management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Demonstrable experience of working in IAPT/primary care mental health setting Experience of supervision and or managing staff Experience of delivering training Experience of report writing

Desirable criteria

Experience of auditing and evaluating projects Experience of project management

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential criteria

An understanding of the NSF for Mental Health The ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, commissioners and third sector

Other

Essential criteria

To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

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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