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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
About
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.
We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
HCPC Registered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Accepting applications until: 06-Aug-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 06-Aug-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Sites across Barking and Dagenham
- Cyfeiriad
- Sites across Barking and Dagenham
- Tref
- Barking and Dagenham
- Cod post
- RM6 6RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: Full time
- Oriau
- Full time
Salary
- Cyflog
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum (pro rata) + HCAS.
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Community Psychology
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Trosolwg o'r swydd
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 HCPC Registered Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to work within the District Nursing teams in Barking and Dagenham.
The post holders will be expected to provide appropriate specialist psychological assessments, psychological interventions and psychoeducation to patients with physical health conditions in Barking and Dagenham and cared for by the DN teams.
The post holders will function as a core, fully integrated members of the District Nursing teams in Barking and Dagenham. This will include providing information to multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and case reviews, representing a psychological perspective of care for patients and their families.
The post holder must have the ability to travel across the borough to visit patients in their own homes.
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o To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the District Nursing service. These assessments should be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and I or management of the cognitive, emotional, behavioural, physical, and psychological health of people utilising a bio-psychosocial model, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, employing psychotherapeutic methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To implement a range of psychological interventions both therapeutic and psycho-educational, for individuals, carers, families, and groups, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
To see housebound people under the district nurses care in their own home with their families to provide psycho-education, brief family interventions, and carers support for families, to help all members minimise the negative impact of their condition on their lives, and to maximise the families’ and the individuals' potential to cope positively and improve their quality of life.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 p.a. pro rata for part time).
High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,192 to a maximum of £2,011 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
· To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the District Nursing service. These assessments should be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and I or management of the cognitive, emotional, behavioural, physical, and psychological health of people utilising a bio-psychosocial model, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, employing psychotherapeutic methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To implement a range of psychological interventions both therapeutic and psycho-educational, for individuals, carers, families, and groups, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
To see housebound people under the district nurses care in their own home with their families to provide psycho-education, brief family interventions, and carers support for families, to help all members minimise the negative impact of their condition on their lives, and to maximise the families’ and the individuals' potential to cope positively and improve their quality of life.
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
- A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
- A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
- Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
- Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
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 a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
Supporting our Armed Forces
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Essential and Desitable
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Doctorate level training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent accredited by the BPS
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
- Additional sSpecialist training in advanced therapy skills such as: CBT Motivational Interviewing
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy in patients’ own homes
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts and presenting problems, reflecting a wide range of clinical severity
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Essential and Desirable
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Doctorate level training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent accredited by the BPS Motivational Interviewing
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
- Additional Specialist training in advanced therapy skills such as: CBT Motivational interviewing
Desirable
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts and presenting problems, reflecting a wide range of clinical severity
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy in patients’ own homes
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Suzanne Neilson
- Teitl y swydd
- Head of Adult Community Services
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07738740844
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Please also contact:
Lindsey Royan - Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Deputy Director of Psychological Professions. Barking and Dagenham - [email protected]
Dr Marc Kingsley - Consultant Clinical Psychologist/ Psychotherapist, Professional Lead for Clinical Health Psychological Service (NELFT), Honorary Consultant Psychologist for Barts Health NHS Trust/ BHRUT NHS Trust, National Assessor for the British Psychological Society (BPS) - [email protected]
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