Job summary
We are excited to announce this 0.6 WTE post to lead on the community psychology pathway within our service.Ocean is a psychology and midwifery led maternal mental health service combining psychologists and psychological therapists with specialist midwifes in supporting women and birthing people who are experiencing moderate-severe mental health difficulties relating to baby loss and birth trauma. Ocean is a community based service, offering a range of interventions including one to one psychology, group work and indirect work with maternity services.
Ocean is a service that prioritises addressing maternal mental health inequalities and developing inclusive services. Therefore the focus of this role is to develop pathways and service provision to meet the maternal mental health needs of the diverse communities in East London. The role will focus on partnership working and co-production with local community groups, as well as managing the band 7 psychologist and clinical associate psychologist who will support the work in this pathway.
The successful candidate will have a strong interest in and knowledge of the principles of community psychology, and a shared model of working collaboratively with statutory and third sector colleagues, faith organisations and community members including service users and carers.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide psychological interventions to people with complex mental health needs. They will also contribute to developing and maintaining partnership working with local community groups to promote social connections, community engagement and participation.
The post holder will contribute to staff supervision and training and provide psychological advice (informal, ad hoc, and formal consultation) to other staff teams, community workers, carers and people with lived experience of mental distress. The post holder will also support the screening of new referrals into the service, conduct assessments and hold a small case load.
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
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Qualifications: Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist) Or Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or BPS statement of Equivalence and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist) Or Accredited training as a CBT Therapist, and Core mental health profession, or a demonstrable working knowledge of NHS values, clinical structures in secondary mental health care, referral pathways, how services are funded and the roles of NHS professionals
- Registration: Full registration with one of: 1. HCPC (Psychologists and Arts Therapists) 2. BABCP 3. UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the specialty as required by professional accrediting/registration body (e.g. BPS/ HCPC/ BABCP).
Desirable
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- oFurther training within systemic, narrative therapy or community psychology approaches
- oFurther training in perinatal specific approaches
- oFurther training in a therapeutic modality relevant to complex mental health e.g. trauma interventions
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist or Psychological therapist in a multi-disciplinary team for adults with complex mental health needs
- 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
- Experience of teaching, training, consultation and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
- Experience of working in partnership with third sector agencies
- Experience of facilitating groups including groups for staff
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience in contributing to service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services
- Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups in both statutory and third sector contexts
Desirable
- Substantial experience of specialist assessment, formulation and treatment of clients experiencing maternal mental health difficulties
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Experience of research in community psychology or highly relevant related fields.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Highly developed 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
- Able to take a lead on service developments and projects with delegated responsibility.
- Up to date knowledge of psychological research and national guidance relevant to Maternal Mental health
- An in depth knowledge and skills in applying clinical risk assessment and management in own and others' clinical caseload, including maternal mental health related risk.
- Able to communicate at a high level verbally and in writing highly complex, technical and sensitive information to clients, families, carers, and a range of professionals and lay people within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including supervision, to support and improve clinical practice.
- Able to plan, organise and prioritise own workload in the face of periods of competing demands.
- Highly developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Ability to provide a culturally competent and non- stigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health
Desirable
- Highly-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies - preferably including one or more from Systemic, CBT, Psychodynamic.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for specific populations that psychological services have traditionally found difficult to work with
- Highly-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of organisational consultancy models
Other
Essential
- Commitment to co-production
- Willingness to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally
- Experience of co-production with people with lived experience of mental distress
- Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviours
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to contain the stress of others
- Ability to remain in constrained positions for substantial proportion of working time
- Ability to concentrate intensively for substantial periods of time during service user contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc
- Ability to produce high quality professional results to specified deadlines and other time constraints
- Ability to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/emotional circumstances
- Ability to manage effectively verbal aggression and abuse from service users, carers etc, and the risk of physical aggression
- Ability to work creatively, co-operatively, reliably and consistently as an independent practitioner, as a mentor and supervisor, and in multi-disciplinary and team settings
- Demonstrably respectful approach to service users, carers, colleagues, other professionals and professional contacts
Desirable
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Qualifications: Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist) Or Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or BPS statement of Equivalence and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist) Or Accredited training as a CBT Therapist, and Core mental health profession, or a demonstrable working knowledge of NHS values, clinical structures in secondary mental health care, referral pathways, how services are funded and the roles of NHS professionals
- Registration: Full registration with one of: 1. HCPC (Psychologists and Arts Therapists) 2. BABCP 3. UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the specialty as required by professional accrediting/registration body (e.g. BPS/ HCPC/ BABCP).
Desirable
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- oFurther training within systemic, narrative therapy or community psychology approaches
- oFurther training in perinatal specific approaches
- oFurther training in a therapeutic modality relevant to complex mental health e.g. trauma interventions
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist or Psychological therapist in a multi-disciplinary team for adults with complex mental health needs
- 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
- Experience of teaching, training, consultation and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
- Experience of working in partnership with third sector agencies
- Experience of facilitating groups including groups for staff
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience in contributing to service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services
- Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups in both statutory and third sector contexts
Desirable
- Substantial experience of specialist assessment, formulation and treatment of clients experiencing maternal mental health difficulties
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Experience of research in community psychology or highly relevant related fields.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Highly developed 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
- Able to take a lead on service developments and projects with delegated responsibility.
- Up to date knowledge of psychological research and national guidance relevant to Maternal Mental health
- An in depth knowledge and skills in applying clinical risk assessment and management in own and others' clinical caseload, including maternal mental health related risk.
- Able to communicate at a high level verbally and in writing highly complex, technical and sensitive information to clients, families, carers, and a range of professionals and lay people within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including supervision, to support and improve clinical practice.
- Able to plan, organise and prioritise own workload in the face of periods of competing demands.
- Highly developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Ability to provide a culturally competent and non- stigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health
Desirable
- Highly-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies - preferably including one or more from Systemic, CBT, Psychodynamic.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for specific populations that psychological services have traditionally found difficult to work with
- Highly-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of organisational consultancy models
Other
Essential
- Commitment to co-production
- Willingness to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally
- Experience of co-production with people with lived experience of mental distress
- Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviours
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to contain the stress of others
- Ability to remain in constrained positions for substantial proportion of working time
- Ability to concentrate intensively for substantial periods of time during service user contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc
- Ability to produce high quality professional results to specified deadlines and other time constraints
- Ability to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/emotional circumstances
- Ability to manage effectively verbal aggression and abuse from service users, carers etc, and the risk of physical aggression
- Ability to work creatively, co-operatively, reliably and consistently as an independent practitioner, as a mentor and supervisor, and in multi-disciplinary and team settings
- Demonstrably respectful approach to service users, carers, colleagues, other professionals and professional contacts
Desirable
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic 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).
