Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - MHUCD

NHS; Basildon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - MHUCD

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting role for a Principal Clinical or Counselling in a trailblazing Mental Health Urgent Care Department (MHUCD), Basildon Hospital Band 8b per annum plus fringe allowance - 37.5 hours per week.

MHUCD is a gateway to either community provision or to acute inpatient services offering a service for people with a first presentation mental health crisis; plus also people who are known to mental health services who are in crisis.

This is an opportunity to offer direct psychological services (assessment and brief intervention) to people who are experiencing their first mental health crisis - and an opportunity to make a real difference to their onward care. This would be alongside supporting and developing the psychological skills across the whole team and working across the urgent, inpatient and community pathways.

We know that moving across services can be stressful and make it harder to engage with unfamiliar professionals/environments, resulting in poor rehabilitation and repeat attendances at crisis services. Your role will help understand, prevent and ameliorate such and other distress and improve the mental health and wellbeing of local service users. You will play a key part in a specialist service that is cost effective, culturally appropriate and based on best clinical and professional practice, to meet Trust objectives, national strategic, and policy guidelines, and user and carer needs.

Main duties of the job

You will lend your expertise to formulations, consultation and brief interventions to allow for a rich understanding of the person and their system. This could inform goal setting and shape interventions. Depending on need and complexity, this could mean up to 3 sessions as clients move and are seen in another service, supporting continuity of care in a trauma-informed way. This will support everybody involved to develop mutual understanding/rapport while co-producing a "passport" to inform care across the system.

You will develop/deliver staff training & complex case discussion.

Your work will be crucial to facilitate integration with other parts of the system (e.g. social care, primary care, VCSEs and specialist services) and therefore, facilitate development of relationships and consideration of opportunities for service development/joint working. You will be in a prime position to champion wider system understanding across a wide geographical patch and integrated care system.

You will work autonomously within professional guidelines.

You will work on ensuring MHUCD provision is evidence based, meets practice and Trust standards, while providing clinical leadership, evaluation and monitoring of relevant therapeutic, standardised assessments and outcomes.

About us

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for a detailed list of responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral level Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification
• Additional CPD relevant to role

Registration

• Accredited and registered HCPC

Experience

• Worked in complex, crisis, urgent care or inpatient mental health services

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.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

364-A-8659-A

Job locations

Basildon Mental Health Urgent Care Department