Senior Psychologist

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 4,000 - 6,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in London is seeking a full-time clinical/counselling psychologist to join their Home Treatment Team and Inpatient Services. This exciting role will focus on delivering psychological support to individuals in crisis, with a strong emphasis on teamwork and professional development. Candidates are encouraged to apply if they have a keen interest in working with marginalized communities and crisis interventions. Competitive salary with additional high cost area supplement is offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Payment for High Cost Area Supplement

Supervision and training opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong interest in crisis interventions and multidisciplinary teamwork.
• Experience in inpatient or home treatment settings.
• Commitment to contribute to EDI initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological support in crisis settings.
• Engage in supervision and training for staff development.
• Conduct research on current psychological practices.

Skills

Crisis intervention

Evidence based interventions

Team collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Relevant training in EMDR and CBT

Job description

Overview

The successful applicant would join our well respected and exciting Acute Psychology Service. We are passionate about tackling social inequalities and making therapy accessible to everyone. Our work focuses on supporting people from marginalised communities. The team are at the forefront of national developments in inpatient and acute working. We are actively involved in research and keen to recruit people who share that vision of contributing to best practice, national guidelines and an evidence base. For example, a number of our team were involved in contributing to the psychological services for acute adult mental health BPS/ACP-UK guidelines.

We are committed to supporting staff development through our in-house CPD package, and where funding allows, we aim to open up further training opportunities in models like Systemic Family Therapy, EMDR, FLP, and CBT for psychosis. The role will involve creative and thoughtful input including offering opportunity to develop skills in assessing, formulating and treating high risk behaviours using evidence based interventions. We work closely with our multi-disciplinary colleagues through consultation, training, reflective practice and opportunities are available to develop these skills in integrated working.

The posts would suit someone who has a strong interest in working with crisis interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team in an inpatient or home treatment setting. We are keen to recruit the right people who share our passion for working with people in crisis. We offer excellent development opportunities including supervision (individual and group) to really develop psychological skills to a high standard, working groups to engage our team in current issues faced by psychology, and service improvement projects. We also support the development of leadership skills and aim to nurture our staff and support them to become confident supervisors, devise and implement training, and conduct research.

Diverse & Inclusive Culture
Our award winning EDI team work hard to support our staff. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve, and inclusive initiatives and processes in place.

This is an 8a post, but we welcome applicants at Band 7 and a job plan would be tailored to reflect Band 7 competencies.

The Acute and Rehab psychology service is an exciting and dynamic team of psychological professionals working in crisis settings - home treatment crisis teams, psychiatric inpatient wards and a range of other settings.

This opportunity is for a full time clinical/counselling psychologist posts for Home Treatment Team and Inpatient Services. This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 - per annum, pro rata for part time).