Job summary
- Main area
- Community Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Full time
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 395-PP167-24
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sites across Barking and Dagenham
- Town
- Barking and Dagenham
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum (pro rata) + HCAS.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
HCPC Registered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 HCPC Registered Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to work within the District Nursing teams in Barking and Dagenham.
The post holders will be expected to provide appropriate specialist psychological assessments, psychological interventions and psychoeducation to patients with physical health conditions in Barking and Dagenham and cared for by the DN teams.
The post holders will function as a core, fully integrated members of the District Nursing teams in Barking and Dagenham. This will include providing information to multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and case reviews, representing a psychological perspective of care for patients and their families.
The post holder must have the ability to travel across the borough to visit patients in their own homes.
Main duties of the job
o To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the District Nursing service. These assessments should be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and I or management of the cognitive, emotional, behavioural, physical, and psychological health of people utilising a bio-psychosocial model, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, employing psychotherapeutic methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To implement a range of psychological interventions both therapeutic and psycho-educational, for individuals, carers, families, and groups, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
To see housebound people under the district nurses care in their own home with their families to provide psycho-education, brief family interventions, and carers support for families, to help all members minimise the negative impact of their condition on their lives, and to maximise the families’ and the individuals' potential to cope positively and improve their quality of life.
Working for our organisation
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).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place 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 focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 p.a. pro rata for part time).
High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,192 to a maximum of £2,011 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the District Nursing service. These assessments should be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, 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 formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and I or management of the cognitive, emotional, behavioural, physical, and psychological health of people utilising a bio-psychosocial model, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, employing psychotherapeutic methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To implement a range of psychological interventions both therapeutic and psycho-educational, for individuals, carers, families, and groups, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
To see housebound people under the district nurses care in their own home with their families to provide psycho-education, brief family interventions, and carers support for families, to help all members minimise the negative impact of their condition on their lives, and to maximise the families’ and the individuals' potential to cope positively and improve their quality of life.
Person specification
Essential and Desitable
Essential criteria
- Doctorate level training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent accredited by the BPS
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
- Additional sSpecialist training in advanced therapy skills such as: CBT Motivational Interviewing
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy in patients’ own homes
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts and presenting problems, reflecting a wide range of clinical severity
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
- Doctorate level training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent accredited by the BPS Motivational Interviewing
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
- Additional Specialist training in advanced therapy skills such as: CBT Motivational interviewing
Desirable
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts and presenting problems, reflecting a wide range of clinical severity
- Experience of delivering psychological therapy in patients’ own homes
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Suzanne Neilson
- Job title
- Head of Adult Community Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07738740844
- Additional information
Please also contact:
Lindsey Royan - Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Deputy Director of Psychological Professions. Barking and Dagenham - [email protected]
Dr Marc Kingsley - Consultant Clinical Psychologist/ Psychotherapist, Professional Lead for Clinical Health Psychological Service (NELFT), Honorary Consultant Psychologist for Barts Health NHS Trust/ BHRUT NHS Trust, National Assessor for the British Psychological Society (BPS) - [email protected]
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