Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service in London is excited to recruit two full-time 8a posts for community psychology. Candidates will provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions for diverse populations while collaborating with local organizations. The role emphasizes quality improvement and cultural competence in therapy. Ideal candidates will have a Doctorate in Psychology and experience in community health settings.

Benefits

Up to £10,000 relocation support

Flexible working arrangements

Commitment to diversity and staff support

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering complex psychological assessments.
• Ability to collaborate with diverse communities.
• Knowledge of evidence-based therapeutic approaches.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist psychological assessments.
• Formulate treatment plans based on psychological data.
• Supervise adapted therapies for diverse communities.

Skills

Psychological assessments

Community collaboration

Therapeutic interventions

Quality Improvement

Cultural competence

Education

Doctorate in Psychology

Job description

Recruitment

We are excited to recruit two full time 8a posts, each to be based in CIMHS North and CIMHS South:

Key Focus Areas

• To support the development and leadership of community psychology approaches in Newham through working with psychology and non-psychology colleagues across a range of services
• 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 with the aim of community capacity building and co-production of psychological input. This includes supporting ongoing transformation work in line with a more flexible outreach psychological offer.
• 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 offer and supervise adapted therapies with diverse communities such as Behavioural Activation for Muslim communities (BA-M), Islamic psychology and CBT-music for young black men.

Main Duties of the Job

Provide specialist psychological assessments of service users and carers. This is to be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and assessments with service users and others involved in their care.

Be responsible for the formulation and implementation of a broad range of specialist psychological treatment and/or management of service users' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. We welcome informal visits to the team and/or phone calls/emails to discuss the role.

Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services. We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Awards and Recognition

We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff Experience

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician‑led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Diversity

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre‑set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

Benefits and Flexibility

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

Mission and Values

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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.

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.