Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

The successful candidate will be Lead Psychologist for a vibrant multi-disciplinary team working with service users and their families presenting with diverse and complex social and health needs. You will work closely with the Operational and Clinical Leads to ensure the delivery of a high quality, accessible, and inclusive psychological service drawing on a range of psychological approaches. In addition to leading on individual and group psychological interventions with service users, you will support the Neighbourhood Team Assessment and Brief Treatment Pathway. You will promote psychological and trauma informed practice within the teams and wider service area through consultation (informal and formal), training and reflective practice. You will supervise the B7 psychologist working across the CMHT and locality inpatient wards, as well as other psychological staff. You will collaborate closely with colleagues from psychology, Arts Therapy and Occupational Therapy to jointly develop
a borough wide groups therapies programme.
You must be keen to embrace the privileges of working in a diverse borough and have experience of working with people with complex mental health difficulties and from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds., The 8a Psychologist will be responsible for the oversight of Psychology provision into the Neighbourhood Team.
They will be responsible for the day-to-day management of psychological provision to the team. For identifying areas for development or challenges and working closely with the clinical leads, operational manager and senior psychologists for community to implement and address these.
To promote and support psychosocial interventions through assessment, care planning, consultation and supervision in collaboration with each team.
To develop close links with community partners and develop innovative ways of delivering trauma-informed psychological interventions in ways that meet the needs of the community in Tower Hamlets.
To provide specialist advice to the teams and voluntary sector agencies concerning the assessment, treatment and management of the client group accessing team.
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team in collaboration with Service and Professional management., · The 8a Psychologist will be responsible for the oversight of Psychology provision into the new project.
+ They will be responsible for the day-to-day management of psychological provision to the team. For identifying areas for development or challenges and working closely with the clinical leads, operational manager and senior psychologists for community to implement and address these.
+ To promote and support psychosocial interventions through assessment, care planning, consultation and supervision in collaboration with each team.
+ To develop close links with community partners and develop innovative ways of delivering trauma-informed psychological interventions in ways that meet the needs of the community in Tower Hamlets.
+ To provide specialist advice to the teams and voluntary sector agencies concerning the assessment, treatment and management of the client group accessing team.
+ To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team in collaboration with Service and Professional management.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
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 job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

his is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to lead the psychological provision for Bethnal Green Neighbourhood Mental Health Team.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.