Job summary
East London Foundation Trust are pleased to offer the opportunity for a locum Psychologist to join us in our transforming mental health services in City and Hackney. The borough was an early-implementer site for the Community Mental Health Transformation of mental health services. We established eight separate Neighbourhood Teams which are intended to offer a place-based service responsive to local needs More recently a Neighbourhood Recovery Service has been established. This offers a more intensive multidisciplinary level of mental health care to service users who need a care co-ordinated level of support. The Neighbourhood Recovery Service works closely with the Neighbourhood Teams, and service users can be 'stepped up' and 'stepped down' from one level of support to another depending on their needs.
You will work as part of the Neighbourhood Recovery Service Psychology Team. We are embedded within the Neighbourhood Recovery Service (NRS), a multidisciplinary team which was formed out of the former Recovery CMHTs in the borough. We provide the full range of direct and indirect psychology roles to the NRS. We are also one of the psychological therapy teams offering consultation and accepting referrals from the Neighbourhood Teams.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based intervention for service users under the care of the City and Hackney Neighbourhood Recovery Service and Neighbourhood Teams.
Be involved in quality improvement, service development, evaluation and research.
To develop and support the psychosocial work of other staff through teaching, training, supervision and consultation.
You will need to be self-motivated, clinically up to date with proven experience of undertaking and interventions in secondary care settings.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please could you kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by BPS or Doctorate in Counselling Psychology
- Must be registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees
Desirable
- Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study or experience (or a combination of these.)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
- Relevant experience of working as a specialist clinical/counselling psychologist e.g. experience working in a multidisciplinary teams for adults with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- Experience of development and delivery of therapeutic groups
- Experience of work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
- Highly-developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients in a range of settings within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation.
- Highly-developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance.
- Skills in working in multidisciplinary settings.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by BPS or Doctorate in Counselling Psychology
- Must be registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
- Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees
Desirable
- Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study or experience (or a combination of these.)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
- Relevant experience of working as a specialist clinical/counselling psychologist e.g. experience working in a multidisciplinary teams for adults with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- Experience of development and delivery of therapeutic groups
- Experience of work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
- Highly-developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients in a range of settings within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation.
- Highly-developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance.
- Skills in working in multidisciplinary settings.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
