Senior Psychologist/Cognitive Behavioural Therapist- Here for Staff

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

This is an exciting part-time opportunity for a Practitioner Psychologist or Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to work in the 'Here for Staff' service, specifically supporting staff in the Acute and Rehabilitation Directorate (ARD).

Here for Staff works across the Trust to offer confidential support, consultation, guidance, and brief therapeutic interventions for staff and teams, who have been impacted by events of violence and aggression, racism, sexual harm and patient safety.

The postholder would have a presence at ARD, meeting regularly with staff, matrons and managers to build relationships and enable staff to recognise the impact of events and feel confident in accessing support. In addition to offering individual and team support face to face or virtually, consultation and training would be offered, as required.

You would be based at Goodmayes Hospital, though other aspects of the post may require some travel.

This role would suit people who are interested in developing staff support skills, providing psychoeducation and offering space for reflection and building team resilience. This is a key role within an important and meaningful part of NELFT's strategy to ensure the wellbeing of staff and enhancing patient safety.

For more information, please contact both Dr Marc Kingsley on Marc.Kingsley@nelft.nhs.uk and Nadya Khokhar on Nadya.Khokhar@nelft.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

• Supporting managers to offer a consistent approach following a patient or staff safety incident.
• Providing support to staff following patient suicide, serious investigation process and legal proceedings
• Ensuring a consistent model of supportive/debrief sessions following patient and staff safety incidents.
• Offering parity of offer to all staff, including bank and agency workers
• Using suitable data to capture the experience of affected staff.
• Supporting the creation of an MDT workplace wellbeing expert reference group
• Ensuring there are suitable online support resources for staff and managers.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement - London

This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 per annum pro rata).

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To provide a highly skilled psychological service for staff and teams referred to the Staff Support Service with three days for ARD involving: brief NICE endorsed individual and group psychological interventions and psychoeducation. There may be some need for individual work.
2. To employ core professional skills in using outcome measures and risk assessments.
3. To provide psychoeducation to staff groups for preventative measures (such as stress management, mindfulness techniques). These could include one off group sessions, or up to 8 designated sessions.
4. To facilitate critical incident debriefing and support for individuals and teams.
5. To work flexibly and independently, as an autonomous clinical practitioner, with the support of Staff Support service colleagues.
6. To actively support reduced waiting times for staff and teams referred for support.
7. To offer advice and consultation on staff psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.
8. To expand the psychological component of Health and Wellbeing the Trust. This will include preventative work that addresses mental health and stress and promoting health and well-being training events.
9. To work closely with managers and teams, and in this capacity to offer consultation, training and supervision to non-psychology staff when required.
10. To work closely with other colleagues in in NELFT, to be able to demonstrate a high standard of clinical skill, multidisciplinary engagement and flexibility.
11. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research,
12. To enhance the psychological profile of staff support by attending and contributing both to in-house meetings and external specialist interest groups.
13. To deliver a culturally and ethically sensitive, equitable psychological service to all groups regardless of race and ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, culture, religion, and disability; to include staff users in the design and delivery of the service.

NELFT is an innovative and creative NHS Trust, committed to creating a Just and Compassionate culture for staff and patients alike. It recent increased investment in staff support is good evidence of this.

It is conveniently located between London and Essex, so is an easy commute for many people. whilst here you will have the opportunity to develop your own skills and interests further and this is actively encouraged. you will receive good support and supervision and will be joining a family of psychological practitioners.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

• HCPC registration as a psychological practitioner or BABCP registered practitioner

Desirable criteria

• Additional specialist training in advanced therapy skills, such as CBT, EMDR, Mindfulness

Interest

Essential criteria

• Interest in working with staff teams post critical incident, and who are often highly stressed

Desirable criteria

• Interest in developing new skills and techniques that are shown to be effective in staff support

Experience

Essential criteria

• At least two years post-qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users within the NHS.
• At least two years post-qualification experience of delivering psychological interventions to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts, and presenting problems

Desirable criteria

• Experience of delivering group/psycho-education work

Teaching

Essential criteria

• Experience of teaching, training, and / or supervision.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of supporting and supervising research projects, audit and service evaluation.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Well -developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, with staff and other professional colleagues post critical incident and high levels of stress.

Desirable criteria

• Skills in providing consultation to professional colleagues.

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

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 a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 476.2KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 476.2KB)
• Candidate Recruitment Pack (PDF, 671.2KB)