Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

at  East London NHS Foundation Trust

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 people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and with clients from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The postholder 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 Bow and Poplar with an equal focus on providing input to the locality inpatient wards at Mile End Hospital. The postholder 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..
Provide specialist psychological assessments of service users of the locality service, when care is managed under the CPA (community and in patients). This is to be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and assessments with service users and others involved in their care. This can include the interpretation and explanation of the results of cognitive and neuropsychological tests in the context of the service user’s circumstances and current difficulties and the communication of these findings to those involved in the network of care and in care planning.
Be responsible for the formulation and implementation of a broad range of specialist psychological treatment and/or management of service users’ mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individual service users, carers and groups, and drawing upon different explanatory models to maintain a number of provisional hypotheses.
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.
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