8a Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £59,490 - £66,239 per annum Inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, E13 8SP |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7250348/363-NEW7250348 |
Summary
Are you a psychologist with an interest in inpatient mental health and a passion for bringing psychological ways of working to complex systems?
If so, read on!
We are looking for an enthusiastic qualifiedpsychologistwith experience in working with systems and families, to join the Newham Acute Psychology Service (NAPS). This team provides psychological services to the people who reside, work and visit Newham Centre for Mental Health (NCMH).
Why work with us?
Within the NAPS team you will be encouraged to bring your ideas and creativity to develop the psychology provision in your wards and across the service. Staff development and innovation is very important to us. See below for a list of some of our current projects:
- Relational Security (i.e. See, Think, Act) and trauma-informed care implementation.
- Quality improvement projects.
- Sensory interventions in NCMH.
- New project for systemic working with families and systems to support transition to the community.
CPD opportunities:
- Collaboration with the local Systemic Therapies service.
- Research opportunities in collaboration with NELFT and the University of East London.
- CPD opportunities (e.g. systemic working, indirect approaches, leadership) within a Band 8a role.
- Local Secondary Care Psychological Services network offers further opportunities for learning and connection.
You will be responsible for bringing psychological approaches to our adult triage mental health wards. Our overall aim within the NAPS team is to foster a compassionate, safe and therapeutic culture for all people within the service. You would be expected to play an active part in planning, prioritising and reflecting on how best to organise your work to move towards this aim.
Roles will include direct interventions with patients in group, individual and family sessions; staff support and development including team formulation, reflective practice and training; leadership of co-production, evaluation and quality improvement (QI) initiatives throughout the service. There is a current focus on supporting the discharge process and interface with community services, in collaboration with our local systemic therapy team. Where required, this may involve seeing families in their homes.
We are looking for applicants who bring enthusiasm and creativity around inpatient working. Experience in acute mh services and providing culturally inclusive psychological approaches in NHS services is also highly desirable as well as an ability to speak an additional local language.
The Trust has embraced flexible working. We are interested in hybrid ways of working that are within the scope of the role.
We look forward to welcoming the successful candidate; their ideas, passions and aspirations into our team.
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.
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Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Jun 2025