Highly Specialist Senior Counselling OR Clinical Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary: Be a member of the Home Treatment Team supporting service users with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

Be responsible and accountable for the direct provision of specialist psychology service, including specialised assessments, formulations and interventions covering the spectrum of mental health difficulties including severe and enduring mental illness, personality disorder, learning disability, and mental health crisis work. Interventions draw on a broad theoretical base and be tailored to the specific needs of the service user. A range of 1:1, couple, family and group interventions are provided.

Contribute to the provision of a specialist psychological perspective for the work of the team. Provide highly specialist psychological advice to other members of the team. Facilitate Case Formulation and Reflective Practice in teams.

Clinically supervise and co-ordinate the work of assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, other psychological therapy staff and non-psychological staff where appropriate.

Develop and support the psychological work of other staff groups through teaching, training, clinical supervision and case consultation.

Contribute to the provision of a highly specialist psychological input to SU with severe, complex and enduring mental health difficulties across settings, directly and indirectly, by engaging in interface work. Take the lead for a specified area for interface work as required.

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.