Clinical Psychologist

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. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and help others on their journey to wellness, we want to hear from you!

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. This includes where suitable adapted therapies including Behavioural Activation for Muslim Communities (BA-M), Islamic Psychology and CBT-music with young black men as well a specific role in supporting the Disordered Eating pathway through community engagement and capacity building.

Job description

Please refer to attached Job description and person specification

We are offering two roles one in CIMHS North and one in CIMHS South in Newham

We welcome informal visits to the team and/or phone calls/emails to discuss the role

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• oPostgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (as accredited by the BPS).OR Postgraduate Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
• oRegistered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Desirable

• oClinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees
• oAdditional training in community psychology models

Other

Desirable

• Ability to travel independently across sites as required

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
• oProviding specialist psychological assessment, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
• oPlanning and exercising clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• o The application of psychologically informed interventions in different cultural contexts including working with interpreters.
• oAbility to provide a culturally competent and non- stigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health
• Postgraduate level knowledge of research methods

Desirable

• Providing specialist psychological assessment, including cognitive and neuropsychological assessment, and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings and clinical severity including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient
• Experience of providing teaching, training and clinical supervision
• The application of psychological principles across multiple environments and populations
• Representing psychological therapies within the context of multi-disciplinary and inter agency care
• QI or other improvement methodology
• Experience of working with diverse communities including faith groups in Newham

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• oThe presentation of complex mental health problems.
• opresentation 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
• oRisk assessment practice and procedures
• oApplication of standardised assessments and outcome measures.
• The value of People Participation in the delivery and development of services Equal opportunities, confidentiality and consent issues.

Wide range of IT applications, including databases, word processing, presentation software and teleconferencing tools.

Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology

The legal and ethical issues relating to health care and working in the community.

Community psychology approaches to population mental health Approaches to addressing population health

Knowledge of local communities in Newham

Desirable

• Proficient in one of the locally spoken languages (Bengali, Sylheti or Somali)

Skills

Essential

• Co-production of care and treatment with service users and carers.
• oDemonstrably respectful and collaborative approach to service users, carers, colleagues, other professional contacts
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users. Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.

Able to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.

Ability to exercise appropriate levels of selfcare and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.

Ability to work independently to maintain agreed caseload and activity levels

Skills in the use of Information Technology adequate for use of Trust Information systems.

Work creatively, co-operatively, reliably and consistently both as an independent practitioner and in multidisciplinary and team settings.

Concentrate intensively for substantial periods during service user contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.

Produce high-quality professional reports to specified deadlines and other time constraints.

About the employer

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.