Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist

Are you an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist keen to join our staff wellbeing service 'Here For You'? We are developing a newly commissioned service at the Princess Alexandra Hospitals Trust (PAHT). As the 0.5 WTE Clinical Lead for this part of our service, you will be responsible for developing and delivering the service to the acute hospital. The service aims to provide a trauma-informed, flexible, and holistic approach to supporting individual staff and teams and to support the wider organisation via consultation. Our aim is to enable and support our NHS colleagues to sustain fulfilling, productive, and purposeful working lives.

Here for You has been supporting staff in PAHT since the onset of COVID. Our previous NHS England national funding of Wellbeing Hubs model was highly valued, which has led to a commitment of new local investment from PAHT, thus enabling the development of a dedicated psychological support offer for staff at the hospital(s). We already have strong working relationships with key stakeholders in the hospital trust, and thus the successful applicant will be joining at a pivotal stage for leading, shaping, and building on this delivery with support from our full-time 8a Psychological Therapist (in post already).

Interviews for this role will take place Tuesday 26th November 2024.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for leading the provision at the Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust. Working collaboratively with the senior leadership team and with internal and external stakeholders, the role will involve setting the direction of the service, engaging the relevant systems, and delivering a responsive and thoughtful service. The post holder will supervise other members of staff within the service. You will have an opportunity to conduct clinical work using a range of modalities (Individual, group, consultative) alongside this leadership role.

Working collaboratively, you will be part of the wider Here for You service, consisting of Consultant, Principal and Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologists/Psychological Therapists, Social Workers, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, and a dedicated Service Administrator. Being part of this wider team allows the opportunity for differentiation of work and CPD. For example, the team actively shares learning, resources, and reflective spaces across the different work streams. We have various CPD, supervision and learning spaces, as well as space dedicated to equality and diversity thinking within the team. We work closely together as a clinical leadership team to support each other and to support thinking and service development.

About us

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Care, Learn, and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including:

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

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. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you would like to have an informal discussion about the post please contact:

Dr Jenna Harrington, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Head of Service - Here for You on jenna.harrington1@nhs.net Mobile: 07583 122374

To fulfil this role, you will be an enthusiastic, creative, and highly motivated Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Senior Psychological Therapist/Psychotherapist. This exciting post provides an excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic and dedicated team to develop the service working specifically into the PAHT. If you want to be part of a new investment and initiative, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Please see attached documents (JD/PS) for full details of the role. This includes:

1. To be a part of the team offering psychological support to NHS staff in the acute sector.
2. To offer individual, group, and team psychological assessments, formulations, and interventions where appropriate.
3. To understand the needs of staff in different settings and to be part of a team conceptualising innovative strategies to aid delivery of support.
4. To work closely with a wide team of Psychological Therapists and multidisciplinary colleagues in delivering a sustainable, informed staff support model.
5. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
6. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice.
7. To be committed to providing a non-discriminatory, equally and fairly accessed service.

If you are committed to the development of staff support and if you would like to contribute to an innovative new initiative, we'd love to hear from you. As a part of our commitment to ensuring that the workforce is reflective of those who we train and those who use our services, we would particularly encourage applications from those who identify as being part of a minoritised group.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• Formal training and accreditation to Doctoral level in Clinical Psychology, or its equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996. Doctoral level Counselling Psychology, or equivalent psychotherapy training will be acceptable if the post holder has proven interest, skills and experience in working with trauma and severe and enduring mental health.
• HCPC/UKCP/BABCP Registered.
• Doctoral level (or equivalent of) knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Willingness to participate in a CPD programme relevant to the requirements of the post.

Desirable

• Further training in specific theoretical models.

Skills/Experience

Essential

• Evidence of competence and experience of working as a Psychologist or Psychotherapist suitable for senior responsibilities.
• Experience of training and supervising.
• Experience of supporting staff following a serious incident.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of selection and recruitment.

Desirable

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

Employer details

Employer name

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Derwent Centre

Harlow

CM20 1QX

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