Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity for a newly or recently qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, who is keen to take on the challenges of working in a diverse borough with complex presentations. Candidates should have an interest in working with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and high comorbidity, with clients from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The post holder will be expected to work alongside other Psychologists, including a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who will also provide supervision.

The successful candidate will be part of a vibrant multi-disciplinary team operating out of our community office based in Isle of Dogs with an equal focus on providing input to the locality inpatient wards at Tower Hamlets Centre for Mental Health at Mile End Hospital. The post holder will work alongside the team's 8a Psychologist providing assessment and empirically informed, but necessarily flexible, therapy to service users. In collaboration with more senior staff, the successful candidate will contribute to staff training and provide psychological advice (informal, ad hoc, and formal consultation) to other staff, support family members and liaise with primary and secondary care providers and various other statutory and non-statutory agencies involved in service users' care.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking someone who values and enjoys multi-disciplinary team working, co-production, indirect psychological interventions, and who is able to work collaboratively across different agencies. We welcome innovations and a readiness to try out new ideas as part of our commitment to continuous improvement and the development of our staff.

Your service area is part of the wider psychology and psychological therapy provision in Tower Hamlets, and you would be joining a community of psychologists and psychological therapists working across Inpatient, NMHT, EI, perinatal, art therapies, personalities disorder services, homelessness, learning difficulties, older adults, PTS, psychiatric liaison, community health, and community access service. The department aims to develop and deliver our services through co-production with people with lived experience and has an excellent relationship with the Local Recovery College. We meet regularly and support professional development in a range of ways.

The post-holder will be offered a range of opportunities for accredited post-qualification therapy training. The role offers excellent opportunities for developing skills in leadership, service-development and co-production, and there are significant opportunities for career development within the trust.

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.