Job summary
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 is suitable for a psychologist who is keen to embrace the privileges of working in a diverse borough, and a commitment to working with people with complex mental health difficulties. This includes working with a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds as well as working in partnership with staff teams and community organisations to deliver psychologically informed care.
Main duties of the job
- To develop and deliver community based interventions that are psychologically, socially and ecologically informed.
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions to secondary mental health services and those in the community, particularly those with complex mental health problem, who are vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions.
- To develop partnership working with local community organisations.To develop, through co-production, psychological interventions that address the needs of those served including resilience and recovery, shared support, social connections and community engagement.
- To provide highly specialist consultation and support to staff of ELFT and other community organisations.
- To provide regular support and consultation to staff including the facilitation of reflective practice.
- To promote population health and develop innovative ways of working that will also inform the further development of the Trust's approach to population health
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
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions to secondary mental health services and those in the community, particularly those with complex mental health problem, who are vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions.
To develop partnership working with local community organisations.To develop, through co-production, psychological interventions that address the needs of those served including resilience and recovery, shared support, social connections and community engagement.
To provide highly specialist consultation and support to staff of ELFT and other community organisations.
To provide regular support and consultation to staff including the facilitation of reflective practice.
To promote population health and develop innovative ways of working that will also inform the further development of the Trusts approach to population health
Be responsible for and ensure the provision of a specialist psychological perspective to the work of statutory and voluntary sector agencies working with people who have complex health and social needs.
Manage, co-ordinate, provide clinical supervision to the work of assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, other psychologists as appropriate.Develop and implement an evaluation of the work.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Participate in CPD and other developmental activities, keeping up to date with relevant psychological research and national guidance (DoH, NICE etc).
Follow broadly defined policies and pursue agreed objectives but exercise freedom in deciding on how best to implement or achieve them.
To work autonomously, within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology within the work.
To propose and implement policy changes to the way in which psychology is delivered in collaboration with Service/Teams and Professional management.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalence (statement of equivalence (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)) and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist)
- Doctorate in Counselling Psychology
Desirable
- Further training within systemic, narrative therapy or community psychology approaches
- Further 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 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 planning and exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- 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 reflective practice groups
Desirable
- Experience of developing and delivering specialist training programmes
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary/multi-professional/agency services/teams.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working within services for people with complex trauma/ psychosis/ refugees/asylum seekers.
Knowledge
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
- 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.
- Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems
- Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS
- Ability to provide a culturally competent and non- stigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health
- Ability to support and co-ordinate the work of psychology colleagues within the service
- Ability to co-ordinate the recording and reporting of clinical information as required
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for specific populations that psychological services have traditionally found difficult to work with
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for complex health and social needs (e.g. trauma, self- harm, people diagnosed with 'personality disorder', psychosis, dual diagnosis, homelessness, persons with additional disabilities etc)
- Highly-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies - preferably including one or more from Systemic, CBT, Psychodynamic.
- Highly-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of organisational consultancy models
- Knowledge of the academic literature of the specialism
Other
Essential
- Commitment to co-production
- 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 produce high quality professional results to specified deadlines and other time constraints
- 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
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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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
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Mile End Hospital
Bancroft Road
London
E1 4DG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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