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.
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Job overview
**WELCOME BONUS**
We are excited to be offering an opportunity for a Band 7 clinical or counselling psychologists to join our service in Southend Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
We are looking for an individual who is caring, competent and driven to provide compassionate care to the varying mental health needs of our children and young people.
We are a very supportive team and high performing team, looking for a clinician who is driven, willing to learn and can provide supervision to junior colleagues.
If you are looking to be part of a hard-working, high performing, diverse and supportive team, then do express your interest.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist psychological input to children and young people presenting with complex mental health difficulties.
To be a part of the senior leadership team and support with team priorites such as waiting list, treatment times, supervision, etc.
To provide Clinical Discussion/ reflective practice Groups for the team.
To offer staff support and consultation to members of the wider team where your expertise is required.
Working for our organisation
Starting with NELFT
NELFT places 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 focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex. This will follow another 2 weeks of robust local induction with us in Southend.
COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.
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).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will work alongside the Clinical Lead and Team Manager to help support the delivery of psychological support across the service. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement and provide clinical supervision of staff. The post holder will be accountable for their own professional actions and will work within professional ethics & NELFT NHS Trust Policies.
As a senior clinician within the service, you will bring highly developed knowledge of specialist therapeutic assessment, formulation and intervention skills and specific knowledge and expertise in psychological interventions.
This post would suit someone with a strong interest in working with young people who present with complexity and significant levels of distress, working with the wider systems including education, social care and family/carers.
This post is eligible for the Trust 'Welcome to NELFT' Payment, a lump sum of 10% of agreed basic salary (pro rata if part time and exclusive of HCAS payments) (subject to a minimum of £4,000 and maximum of £10,000) and is open to all new applicants who are successfully appointed. Payment of the incentive is 50% of the lump sum at the end of the probationary period (typically six months) and then 50% at the end of year two. This welcome package is applicable to external candidates only.
Candidates should be aware that welcome payments are subject to a compulsory 2 year employment period within the role.
If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit;. Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical / Counselling Psychology
2. HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
3. Supervision Training
Experience
Essential criteria
4. Working within Clinical Health Psychological Services, or experience of delivering psychological therapy in physical health services
5. Experience working with mental health issues and risk
6. Experience working managing a caseload and clinical throughput
7. Experience of delivering psychological therapy to children and Young people and presenting problems, reflecting the full range of clinical severity.
8. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of various presentations, various ages, various settings within the NHS.
Desirable criteria
9. Working within CAMHS teams
10. Experience of training and/or supervision.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
11. An awareness of variety of mental health disorders including neurodiversity and the necessary tools and skills to treat these.
12. Knowledge and enthusiasm for working psychologically with Children and young people
Desirable criteria
13. Knowledge of Level 2 training and supervision
Skills
Essential criteria
14. Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism and competence when presented with complex ,emotive and distressing problems
15. Good knowledge of SystmOne or other Electronic Patient Recording system and clinical functions related to this such as risk planning, clinical harm reviews and care planning
16. Ability to work with autonomy and flexibility within the bounds of the job description and professional competence.
17. Ability to provide supervision for junior colleagues and facilitate reflective practice
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:
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.