Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

There is an opportunity for you to join our team at Evergreen in Luton, Bedfordshire on a 12 Month Fixed Contract (Maternity Cover).

We currently work with 12-18-year-old young people and their families across Bedfordshire and parts of the East Of England.

Evergreen is an 8 bedded GAU which opened in February 2023. We are tremendously proud of the Unit whose design , ethos, staffing were all co-produced with Children and parents from across BLMK.

Young people present with eating disorders, psychosis, OCD, and emerging and emotional regulation difficulties. The young people are in varying stages of recovery and can be dynamic and resourceful. We actively encourage them to help us enhance their experience of care. We have an eclectic and energetic staff group and are seeking a candidate who has an interest in developing our current service and delivering our clinical care in new ways. We pride ourselves in being a learning centre and believe in the development of our staff team through weekly academic sessions, regular training, reflective practice and complex case discussions.

This supports our strong team ethos on cross-discipline learning, evidence based practice and being reflexive practitioners.

The Clinical Psychology Service provides formulation driven, therapeutic assessments in order to facilitate an understanding of the young person's strengths and needs. From the assessment, time limited interventions are offered both directly and through consultation with members of the wider multi-disciplinary team, i.e. medical, nursing, family therapy, occupational therapy, art therapies, social work and education. A range of therapeutic orientations is represented in the wider team including psycho-dynamic, systemic and cognitive behavioral perspectives.

Psychological input begins at admission and is focused on enabling young people to return to their community as soon as possible.

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

You will join the psychology team which consists of one Assistant Psychologist and Trainee Psychologist.

There will be considerable opportunities for developing your clinical leadership skills, sharing your clinical expertise and developing your capacity to enjoy multi-disciplinary team working. We would value your input to our quality improvement programme, and the development of psychological skills within the wider team. We are committed to staff development and reflective practice, with considerable resources in the Team and wider trust to support this.

You will have some experience of working with adolescents presenting with complex mental health presentations. We are seeking a candidate who is interested in neuropsychological assessment, multidisciplinary team working and targeted psychological interventions, especially third-wave CBT. We welcome informal enquiries and would enjoy showing you around Evergreen and talking to you about our work.