8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in London

Are you a psychologist with an interest in inpatient mental health and a passion for bringing psychological ways of working to complex systems? If so, read on! We are looking for an enthusiastic qualified psychologist with experience of working in MDTs, to join the Newham Acute Psychology Service (NAPS). This team provides psychological services to the people who reside, work and visit Newham Centre for Mental Health (NCMH).

Within the NAPS team you will be encouraged to bring your ideas and creativity to develop the psychology provision in your wards and across the service. Staff development and innovation is very important to us. See below for a list of some of our current projects:

• Relational Security (i.e. See, Think, Act) and trauma-informed care implementation.
• Quality improvement projects (e.g. Meaningful engagement project).
• Sensory interventions in NCMH.

CPD opportunities include:

• Leadership training and development.
• Research opportunities in collaboration with NELFT and the University of East London.
• Training in therapy approaches (e.g. CFT) and indirect interventions (e.g. Schwartz Rounds, Reflective Practice).
• Local networks and links with inpatient psychology across the trust offer further opportunities for learning and connection.

Main duties of the job include:

• Bringing psychological approaches to two adult mental health wards (one male and one female).
• Fostering a compassionate, safe and therapeutic culture for all people within the service.
• Playing an active part in planning, prioritising and reflecting on how best to organise your work.
• Direct interventions with patients in group, individual and family sessions.
• Staff support and development including team formulations, reflective spaces and training.
• Evaluation and quality improvement (QI) across the service.
• Supporting the discharge process and interface with community services.
• Seeing families in their homes when necessary.

We are looking for applicants who bring enthusiasm and creativity around inpatient working. Experience and interest in providing culturally inclusive psychological approaches in NHS services is also highly desirable as well as an ability to speak an additional local language in order to engage wider communities.

The Trust has embraced flexible working. We are interested in hybrid ways of working that are within the scope of the role including working-from-home opportunities. Job share and flexible working options are also available within this role.

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.

Essential qualifications include:

• Post-qualification experience as a practitioner psychologist or equivalent.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings.
• Experience of providing teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience as a qualified psychologist working in multidisciplinary settings.
• Doctorate in Clinical/ Counselling Psychology or equivalence and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS/HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Desirable qualifications include:

• Experience of working as a psychologist in an inpatient setting.
• Further training or qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Quality Improvement Training.
• Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees.

Personal attributes required:

• Enthusiasm and interest in models of service delivery.
• Able to contain and work with organisational stress.
• Able to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/highly emotional circumstances.
• Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.