Highly Specialist Clinical Counselling Psychologist Job In London

Job Description

Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

We are pleased to invite applications for a rewarding opportunity for a Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling/ Psychologist to be part of the Primary Care Network (PCN) Mental Health Teams in Newham (CIMHS). As part of this collaborative team you will work alongside colleagues from primary care, mental health services and the voluntary sector to provide personalised and holistic mental health care. You will play a key role as part of an exciting, wider three-year movement of East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT), primary care, local authority and voluntary sector partners working across Newham to transform, expand and radically improve community-based mental health services drawing on major new investment in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.

A key feature of ELFT's planned approach is the development of a care offer in Newham delivered by staff from multiple partner organisations within the footprint of a PCN to deliver what really matters to people who need mental health support in that neighbourhood. This emerging model of care is flexible to people's changing needs, with care 'stepping up' and 'stepping down' and interventions provided according to the complexity of someone's needs at a given time.

Main duties of the job

The core purpose of this post is to contribute to the delivery of an effective and high quality psychology service within the CIMHS South, which covers three PCN Mental Health Teams. Psychologists in the team provide a broad range of inputs due to the variety of Service Users seen including:

Screening and triaging of referrals.

Assessing diverse and complex presentations to provide a psychological formulation to assist with care planning.

Work with clients presenting with risk of significant harm to self or others or from others.

Providing brief focussed psychological interventions (1:1, couple, family and groups) suited to the needs of the Service User.

Offering timely and responsive psychological assessments and interventions.

Providing consultation, teaching and training to wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) members

Supervising and overseeing the caseloads of Clinical Associate Psychologists.

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

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council.
• Clinical supervision training for Doctoral trainees.
• Relevant specialist training or qualifications acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study or experience (or a combination of these) to an appropriate level approved by the Lead of Psychological Services and demonstrated by certification, documented supervision logs, management appraisal documentation and/or assessment at interview

Desirable

• Brief Interventions CBT Psychodynamic Approaches Narrative Therapy Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Systemic Psychotherapy Family Interventions Specific training in neuropsychological assessment skills.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a 8a Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist or extensive experience of work as a Band 7 qualified Essential S, I Page 9 of 11 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in adult mental health NHS settings.
• Post qualification experience of working with people who experience psychosis, personality disorder and complex depression and anxiety.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of working as a psychologist with at least three service user/care groups.
• Experience of providing a clinical service to a multicultural population.
• Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.

Desirable

• Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CIMHS South

115-121 Balaam Street,

Plaistow,

E13 8AF

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