Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 per annum Inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, E1W 3AB |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6236735/363-TH5367182-A |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to lead the psychological provision for Stepney and Wapping Neighbourhood Mental Health Team.
The successful candidate will be Lead Psychologist for a vibrant multi-disciplinary team working with service users and their families presenting with diverse and complex social and health needs. You will work closely with the Operational and Clinical Leads to ensure the delivery of a high quality, accessible, and inclusive psychological service drawing on a range of psychological approaches. You will take a lead on individual and group psychological interventions with service users, You will promote psychological and trauma-informed practice within the teams and wider service area through consultation (informal and formal), training and reflective practice. You will supervise the Band 7 psychologist working across the NMHT and locality inpatient wards, as well as other psychology staff. You will collaborate closely with colleagues from psychology, Arts Therapy and Occupational Therapy to jointly develop a borough-wide groups therapies programme.
Within our lively and enthusiastic team a range of approaches are promoted, including CBT, CFT, narrative therapy, community psychology and trauma informed care, supported by strong peer and specialist supervision. We also liaise closely with North Thames Clinical Psychology Doctorate courses.
You must be keen to embrace the privileges of working in a diverse borough and have experience of working with people with complex mental health difficulties and from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We aim to develop and deliver our services through co-production with people with lived experience. The department has an excellent relationship with the Trust’s People Participation work and the Local Recovery College.
We would expect you to be fully committed to co-production and working in partnership with teams, other services and community organisations to deliver psychologically informed and trauma informed care.
East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is making a positive difference to thousands of people’s lives, providing support so that they can fulfil their potential and enjoy healthy lives.
We are successful at what we do but want to build and improve to provide the very best for our service users and carers. Their needs matter most and are at the heart of everything we do. We not only involve people in their individual care and treatment but we work with people as experts by experience to develop and improve our services.
ELFT has been named one of the HSJ Top 10 best places to work in healthcare. We believe that staff who feel valued by the Trust and are truly engaged in the organisation deliver better outcomes for our patients. This Trust is clinician-led, and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services.
We have set ourselves the mission of providing the highest quality mental health and community care in England, and have embarked on an ambitious Quality Improvement Programme to transform the culture of the Trust to one of continuous improvement, delivered through participation of all staff and with service users, carers and families at the heart of our efforts to improve.
We are recognised as a centre of excellence for innovation and improvement.
Our extensive work in research and education has led to a number of pioneering health solutions, giving us a strong academic reputation.
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024
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