Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | Plaistow,, E13 8AF |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6272939/363-FOR6162833-A |
Summary
We are pleased to invite applications for a rewarding opportunity for a Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling/ Psychologist to be part of the Primary Care Network (PCN) Mental Health Teams in Newham (CIMHS). As part of this collaborative team you will work alongside colleagues from primary care, mental health services and the voluntary sector to provide personalised and holistic mental health care. You will play a key role as part of an exciting, wider three-year movement of East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT), primary care, local authority and voluntary sector partners working across Newham to transform, expand and radically improve community-based mental health services drawing on major new investment in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.
A key feature of ELFT’s planned approach is the development of a care offer in Newham delivered by staff from multiple partner organisations within the footprint of a PCN to deliver what really matters to people who need mental health support in that neighbourhood. This emerging model of care is flexible to people’s changing needs, with care ‘stepping up’ and ‘stepping down’ and interventions provided according to the complexity of someone’s needs at a given time.
The core purpose of this post is to contribute to the delivery of an effective and high quality psychology service within the CIMHS South, which covers three PCN Mental Health Teams. Psychologists in the team provide a broad range of inputs due to the variety of Service Users seen including:
1. Screening and triaging of referrals.
2. Assessing diverse and complex presentations to provide a psychological formulation to assist with care planning.
3. Work with clients presenting with risk of significant harm to self or others or from others.
4. Providing brief focussed psychological interventions (1:1, couple, family and groups) suited to the needs of the Service User.
5. Offering timely and responsive psychological assessments and interventions.
6. Providing consultation, teaching and training to wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) members
7. Supervising and overseeing the caseloads of Clinical Associate Psychologists.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024