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, and Essex. 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 five 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.
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Job overview
The post holder will be a member of the Kent and Medway Intensive Home Treatment team. The post holder will be required to identify, assess and manage young people who present with a range of presenting issues pertinent to the service. The post holder will be a member of the team and have support of other team members in the management of these cases. The post holder will be expected to attend and participate in team meetings.
The post holder will support people and enhance the professional psychological care within the service, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist drawing on their supervisor’s expertise. To work according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
The post holder will support their peers and team manager and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.
The post holder will contribute to the clinical work in the Intensive Home Treatment Service. They can offer in-depth psychological assessments for complex cases, provide basic therapeutic input and assist in group work. They can also facilitate outcome monitoring and evaluation.
Main duties of the job
·To undertake, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, protocol based psychological assessments of clients, including the use of 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 assist in the formulation and delivery of routine care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
·To assist, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
·To manage an ongoing programme of audit of outcomes from treatment involving measures administered to clients and families at multiple stages during their care journey.
·To analyse this data and contribute to the production of reports of outcomes for the team and for commissioners.
·To support clients using online treatment packages via phone and email.
·To support the multi-disciplinary team at all stages of the research process including writing grant applications, data collection, data analysis and write up of results.
·To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
·To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are: We are kind. We are respectful. We work together with our communities. These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
Certificates of Sponsorship Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.
2. An upper secondclass honours degree or higher in psychology.
Desirable criteria
3. Further postgraduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
4. Work with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities.
Desirable criteria
5. Experience of paid work in direct care provision.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
6. An awareness of NHS priorities.
7. An understanding of psychology applied to healthcare.
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:
8. 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.
9. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.