Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Ocean is a psychology-led service combining psychology and specialist midwifery 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.The post-holder will support the delivery of individual and group psychological interventions across the three pathways within OCEAN. There will be opportunities to develop group based interventions in partnership with maternity services and voluntary sector organisations, alongside liaison with primary care talking therapies and perinatal services.Ocean is based in Vivienne Cohen House in Hackney, and offers support to women and birthing people across East London in the boroughs of City & Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. You must be keen to embrace the privileges of working in diverse boroughs and have experience of working with people with complex mental health difficulties from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds to deliver psychologically informed care.

Main duties of the job

In addition to:

Providing psychological assessments and interventions to women and birthing people under the care of Ocean MMHS
Developing and delivering group and one to one interventions, as appropriate for the needs of the service
supporting the development of culturally accessible psychological services for women and birthing people.

The successful candidate will contribute to screening of new referrals into the service, support management of the database and offer clinical supervision where appropriate.

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.

Date posted

24 June 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£51,488 to £57,802 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

363-CH6402436

Job locations

Vivienne Cohen House

2 Crozier Terrace

London

E9 6AT

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the job please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification files

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the job please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification files

Person Specification

Education/ qualification/ training

Essential

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical OR Counselling Psychology or BACP/BABCP/UKCP accredited psychotherapy qualification
Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist or with other relevant professional body (eg. BABCP, BACP, UKCP)

Desirable

Training in bereavement and loss
Further training in perinatal specific approaches and perinatal loss
Further training within systemic, narrative therapy or community psychology approaches
Further training in Evidence based Trauma Interventions

Experience

Essential

Experience of working as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist or Psychological therapist in secondary care NHS services
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
Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options, (minimum of two therapeutic orientations) based on formulation.
Experience of working with people who have experienced difficulties including PTSD, complex PTSD and loss at a graduate or post-graduate level

Desirable

Formal basic training in clinical supervision
Skills in working in multidisciplinary settings and knowledge of the practices of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care network, including medical, employment, social, educational, legal and criminal justice systems
Experience of working in a perinatal or maternal mental health service
Experience of working with loss and bereavement
Experience of working with staff teams in physical health settings, particularly maternity

Person Specification

Education/ qualification/ training

Essential

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical OR Counselling Psychology or BACP/BABCP/UKCP accredited psychotherapy qualification
Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist or with other relevant professional body (eg. BABCP, BACP, UKCP)

Desirable

Training in bereavement and loss
Further training in perinatal specific approaches and perinatal loss
Further training within systemic, narrative therapy or community psychology approaches
Further training in Evidence based Trauma Interventions

Experience

Essential

Experience of working as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist or Psychological therapist in secondary care NHS services
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
Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options, (minimum of two therapeutic orientations) based on formulation.
Experience of working with people who have experienced difficulties including PTSD, complex PTSD and loss at a graduate or post-graduate level

Desirable

Formal basic training in clinical supervision
Skills in working in multidisciplinary settings and knowledge of the practices of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care network, including medical, employment, social, educational, legal and criminal justice systems
Experience of working in a perinatal or maternal mental health service
Experience of working with loss and bereavement
Experience of working with staff teams in physical health settings, particularly maternity

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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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).