Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - EIP Service

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Harlow; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job description

Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - EIP Service

Band 8a

Main area: Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - First Episode in Psychosis Service

Grade: Band 8a

Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)

Hours: Part time - 26.25 hours per week

Job ref: 364-A-8758-A

Site: Latton Bush and Western House

Town: Harlow and Stansted

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 06/04/2025 23:59

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk.

• We are among the largest employers in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
• We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our team as a 1 year maternity cover within the First Episode of Psychosis Service in West Essex. We are a small, supportive multidisciplinary team working across West Essex covering Harlow, Loughton/Epping and Stansted. You would be joining two qualified psychologists, a Systemic Family Therapist, an assistant psychologist and trainee psychologists in an MDT that values psychological working, to deliver assessment, intervention, MDT support and supervision.

Newly qualified clinical/counselling psychologists, or those seeking to gain experience in an EIP service, are invited to apply.

Main duties of the job

This post will be based with our West Essex multi-disciplinary team First Episode of Psychosis team, primarily covering the Harlow and Stansted locations.

This post offers you diversity in clinical practice, supporting and enabling your professional development. You will provide direct psychological assessment and interventions in the community for people experiencing their first episode of psychosis. The psychology team within the wider MDT offer a range of psychological therapies including CBTp, psychodynamic working, trauma therapy and CFT. You will offer support for the wider MDT offering reflective practice and contributing to formulation and care planning for clients. There are opportunities for work with families and carers and to contribute to service audits. You will provide supervision for assistant and trainee psychologists (dependent on experience).

You will receive regular clinical supervision from a Principal Clinical Psychologist and peer group supervision, depending on previous training. You will be part of the wider network of EIP psychologists across Essex and more locally in West Essex for peer support and CPD opportunities.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications/ Knowledge

• Professional qualification in the form of a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent.
• HCPC Registered
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Experience of working in adult mental health and with complex and serious mental health problems.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
• Post accreditation training in additional specialised areas of psychological practice e.g. CBT, CBTp or other.
• Training in family interventions.
• Experience of working in psychosis services.

Skills/Experience

• Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of two years (or if less an application would be welcomed from a band 7 looking for the opportunity to complete their preceptorship before moving up to an 8a).
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
• Demonstrate further specialist training and/or experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychological Services.

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment.

Important Professional References

Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Come and work at EPUT and make a difference in people’s lives.