Clinical Psychologist in England

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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.

Exciting Opportunity Alert! We are on the hunt for a passionate Clinical Psychologist to join our dynamic team and make a meaningful impact in our service. The post is responsible for the provision of specialist psychological input to secondary mental health services and those in the community, particularly those vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions. Psychological based provision is offered at the individual, group, couple and family level through to teams, systems and community level. The post holder will offer specialist psychological assessments, psychological formulations and delivery of psychological interventions to the communities we serve in Tower Hamlets.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of mental health problems across a range of care settings.

Person specification:

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (as accredited by the BPS) or Postgraduate Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
• Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees.
• Additional training in community psychology models.

• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
• Providing specialist psychological assessment, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
• Planning and exercising clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• The application of psychologically informed interventions in different cultural contexts.
• Ability to provide a culturally competent and non-stigmatising service.

• The presentation of complex mental health problems.
• The theory and practice of psychological assessment and therapies in relation to treatment of a range of mental health disorders.
• Risk assessment practice and procedures.
• Application of standardised assessments and outcome measures.
• Wide range of IT applications, including databases, word processing, presentation software and teleconferencing tools.

• Co-production of care and treatment with service users and carers.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users.
• Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state.
• Ability to work independently to maintain agreed caseload and activity levels.

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton.

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 job share, part time or another flexible pattern.