Practitioner Psychologist/Psychotherapist

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Practitioner Psychologist/Psychotherapist, Dagenham

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

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Other

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Yes

Job Reference:

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7

Posted:

20.02.2025

Expiry Date:

06.04.2025

Job Description:

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.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist to bring their skills and join the Clinical Health Psychological Services (CHPS) and the Long-Term Conditions Psychology Service in Barking and Dagenham based at Porters Avenue Health Centre. Our team is committed to making a difference within the long term conditions teams in the community (Respiratory, Cardiac and Diabetes). We are looking for applicants who have the energy and enthusiasm to acquire experience in working in health psychology and specialise in providing evidence-based interventions to non-professional carers and patients who are presenting with psychological distress in the context of living with long term physical health conditions.

Main duties of the job

The post holder would join the Clinical Health Psychology Service in NELFT, a well-established and well-respected team of psychologists. We are a friendly, collaborative and supportive team. We are keen to recruit people who share our vision of contributing to best practice, national guidelines and an evidence base. We offer excellent development opportunities including high quality and regular supervision, opportunities to supervise trainees and involvement in research.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role involves:

• Provision of specialist psychological assessment and therapy using a range of psychological therapeutic modalities and techniques.
• Working in a multidisciplinary team alongside nurses, dietitians, doctors and physiotherapists offering integrated care and delivering a high quality health psychology service.
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Person specification

Qualifications

• HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist/ UK Registration as a psychotherapist/counsellor, eg UKCP, BABCP, BACP Registered
• Additional specialist training in advanced therapy skills, such as CBT, motivational interviewing, family interventions
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Skills

• Skills in the application and delivery of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, management and evaluation.
• Expertise and skill in assessment and management of mental health risk situations if they occur within the service, or through consultation from other services
• High level of team working skills
• Experience in working with carers and families in terms of carers support
• Able to administer and interpret cognitive and neuropsychological assessments.
• Able to work with interpreters

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including physical health settings, community, primary care and in patient, community and mental health settings, within the NHS.
• Experience of delivering psychological therapy to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts and presenting problems, reflecting the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Willingness to offer training/honorary placements to suitably qualified people
• Experience of delivering psychological therapy in physical health services
• Experience of working with patients with Long Term Conditions

Knowledge

• High level knowledge of clinical risk, and how to effectively assess, manage and communicate risk information, at times within crisis situations in a community setting.
• Knowledge and ability to work with patients with physical health difficulties, and within clinical health psychology settings
• Knowledge and ability to work with long-term health conditions
• Knowledge of models of supervision

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.

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.