Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

East London NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 08 May 2025

Job summary

This role is for a dynamic clinical psychologist with experience in acute care, to work within the HTT team and crisis pathway. This role will involve working with other psychological professionals and MDT to ensure a systematic provision of a highly specialist, psychology service which meet key objectives around preventing admissions, supporting service users and families through a flexible approach as well as supporting the development of trauma informed practices which enhance service user experience and improved outcomes.

Main duties of the job

Specialist assessments, formulations and interventions, which include individual, group and family work where needed.
Facilitate Case Formulation and Reflective Practice for a specific team within Newham.
Clinically supervising assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, other psychological therapy staff and non-psychological staff where appropriate.
Apply the principles of recovery to empower service users through a variety of psychological interventions taking into account a range of systemic impact on mental health
Working with diverse communities with different cultural/spiritual beliefs. This includes working with interpreters where required.
Develop working partnerships with other services across Newham (e.g Early Intervention, Acute, community teams) as well develop links with third sector organisations.
Undertake clinical audit and quality improvement tasks to improve outcome and enhance service user experience.
Engage in teaching, training and ongoing training as required

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

25 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£59,490 to £66,239 a year per annum Inc HCAs

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

363-NEW7080418-A

Job locations

Newham Centre for Mental Health

Glen Road, Cherry Tree Way

Plaistow, London.

E13 8SP

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for providing psychological interventions directly and indirectly to individuals in the context of an MDT approach. It will provide input into the Home Treatment Team and will be flexible to work with service users in their homes. It will include addressing the needs of service users with physical and mental health conditions, including substance misuse, dementia/delirium, learning disabilities and medically unexplained symptoms. Opportunities for teaching, consultation and case formulation to multi-disciplinary teams within the Crisis Pathway will be an important part of the role as will be the supervision of doctoral trainees, psychology assistants and other professionals. The post holder will work closely with MDT team across the crisis pathway as well as lead psychologists supporting clinical leadership within the complex emotional needs pathway and psychosis pathway.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
Registration with the The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

Additional training in systemic therapy/working with families
Training in single session models/EMDR

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of work as a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in NHS settings.
Experience of working with people who experience psychosis, personality disorder and complex depression and anxiety.
Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Experience of providing a clinical service to a multicultural population, including working with interpreters.
Able to contribute a psychological perspective in work with other professionals.

Desirable

Experience of working as a psychologist with at least three service user/care groups.
Experience of the CPA system.
Experience of supervising others' clinical work.
Understanding of the supervisory process.
Able to deliver teaching and training events. Experience of developing and delivering highly specialist training programmes.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Communication & Relationship skills: Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance. Sensitive and respectful approach to the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, their families and carers.
Able to build good working relationships with other professionals.
Committed to reflective practice
Analytical & judgemental skills
Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations
Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options, (minimum of two therapeutic orientations) based on formulation.
Able to provide brief and longer term therapeutic interventions.
Able to understand the complexity involved in working with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. Understanding of the CPA system. Awareness of government frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health, e.g. NSF, NHS plan, Treatment Choice in Psychological Therapies
Experience in facilitating/leading group/team discussions.
Able to apply at least one theoretical framework to the understanding of organisational processes.

Desirable

Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
Registration with the The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

Additional training in systemic therapy/working with families
Training in single session models/EMDR

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of work as a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in NHS settings.
Experience of working with people who experience psychosis, personality disorder and complex depression and anxiety.
Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Experience of providing a clinical service to a multicultural population, including working with interpreters.
Able to contribute a psychological perspective in work with other professionals.

Desirable

Experience of working as a psychologist with at least three service user/care groups.
Experience of the CPA system.
Experience of supervising others' clinical work.
Understanding of the supervisory process.
Able to deliver teaching and training events. Experience of developing and delivering highly specialist training programmes.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Communication & Relationship skills: Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance. Sensitive and respectful approach to the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, their families and carers.
Able to build good working relationships with other professionals.
Committed to reflective practice
Analytical & judgemental skills
Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations
Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options, (minimum of two therapeutic orientations) based on formulation.
Able to provide brief and longer term therapeutic interventions.
Able to understand the complexity involved in working with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. Understanding of the CPA system. Awareness of government frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health, e.g. NSF, NHS plan, Treatment Choice in Psychological Therapies
Experience in facilitating/leading group/team discussions.
Able to apply at least one theoretical framework to the understanding of organisational processes.

Desirable

Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.

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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