Practitioner Psychologist / High Intensity Therapist – ( HFY)

Job description

Job responsibilities

The award winning staff resilience hub, Here For You, is expanding! We are creating a Social Care specific bolt-on to our already highly successful service. This will consist of a Principal Psychologist, a Senior Psychologist and a Senior Social Worker who will be part of the larger Here For You service. You will work alongside colleagues in Essex County Council and across private care home and domiciliary care providers to deliver support to staff. It is widely known that staff within these settings have suffered considerably as result of the pandemic. This has been acknowledged through the commissioning of this innovative service, which will be under the umbrella of the successful Here For You service. Staff who join this new arm of Here For You will have the opportunity to mirror the successes of Here For You within the Social Care sector and expand, using their creativity and innovation, to reach wider numbers of Social Care staff who would otherwise not receive psychological support.

Here For You is a joint partnership between EPUT and HPFT which delivers staff support services to all health, social care and third sector organisations across Essex and Hertfordshire. Working collaboratively, you will be part of a wide team, consisting of Consultant, Principal and qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologists as well as High Intensity workers, Assistant Psychologists, Social Workers, Nurses, a Project Manager and Administrator. This project won the support and validation from the regional and national NHSEI teams looking at staff support during the COVID-19 pandemic due to its collaborative working at all levels, enterprise and creativity. It has gained the support of three Integrated Care Systems in the area as well as from all acute hospitals in the region. The project aims to both in-reach and outreach to staff working in all three sectors and support cultural shifts in psychological self-care amongst partner organisations. This new initiative aims to create a pathway for all health, social care and third sector colleagues and to provide them with rapid access to evidence based psychological support.

You will work in liaison with your colleagues in the staff support service, Here For You, thereby creating a wide Essex and Hertfordshire based resource. Whilst the new wellbeing hub will be based within these areas, it is anticipated that there will need to be a commitment to remote working and delivery of service.

On 9th November 2021 the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) formally announced that individuals undertaking CQC regulated activities in England must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no later than 1st April 2022. The purpose of this is to protect all those that use health and social care services, as well as to protect colleagues, and to help reduce the amount of COVID-19 related sickness absences.

Please note that for all roles at Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust that fall into the regulated activity criteria, evidence of vaccination status (first and second dose) will become a condition of employment from 1st April 2022. Therefore, please note that if you are successfully appointed at EPUT for one of these roles, your vaccination status will form part of your pre-employment checks.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Formal training and accreditation to Doctoral level in Clinical Psychology, or its equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996. Doctoral level Counselling Psychology will be acceptable if the post holder has proven interest or skills in physical health/behavioural medicine. Training should include models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies. Alternatively, relevant training as a High Intensity Therapist with significant evidence of leadership and organisational experience or recognised accreditation
• Evidence using the career framework of training in mental health and experience working in a stepped care service for anxiety and depression

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Ability to choose most appropriate mode of intervention for clients.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS, in highly emotional situations.

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

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Remote Working

Essex

SS11 7XX

Employer's website

https://eput.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)