Clinical Psychologist - North East Essex MHST

Clinical Psychologist - North East Essex MHST NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area: Mental Health

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours
• Term time hours

Job ref: 395-PP039-25

Site: North East Essex MHST (Covering Colchester, Harwich and Clacton)

Town: Colchester

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata for part time

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 17/03/:59

Joining 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.

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.

Job overview

Mental Health Support Teams are a government initiative following the NHS long-term plans for transformation of Children and Young People's Mental Health Services. NELFT is the largest provider of Mental Health Support Teams in England. Our Southend, Essex and Thurrock services cover 144 schools. The MHSTs deliver evidence-based individual and group interventions in educational settings for children experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties aged 5 to 18 years old.

The North East Essex Mental Health Support Team (MHST) covers a large geographical area incorporating the districts of Colchester and Tendring. We are an early intervention and prevention evidence-based service and as a team we are supportive and passionate in what we deliver.

Our locality covers a large and sometimes rural area, so you will need access to a vehicle and have the ability to travel efficiently across the county.

Main duties of the job

The role requires a post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (e.g. clinical psychologist, counselling psychologist) fully registered with HCPC.

The post holder will be an effective team member using their own initiative, supporting their peers and team lead. They will ensure that a high-quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it throughout the MHST.

The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school observations of children, and short-term psychological treatments.

Working under the direction of the Locality Clinical Lead, the post-holder will also be responsible for liaising directly with schools, conducting annual needs assessments with education setting management and planning the needs-led programme for working with the setting on their whole-school and -college approach (WSCA) to mental health and wellbeing.

The Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in MHST may also be required to complete a postgraduate certificate supervisor training. This training is funded as part of the MHST programme.

This role is suited to a candidate who is keen on service development as well as managing a clinical caseload.

We welcome applications from recently qualified candidates.

Person specification Qualifications

• Successful completion of a post-graduate Clinical Psychology training
• To be registered or eligible for registration as a practitioner psychologist with HCPC
• Experience in CAMHS/CYPMHS

Experience

• Experience of specialist assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person
• Experience in managing safeguarding concerns and risk to self/others
• Experience in working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs.

Knowledge

• An awareness of NHS priorities, NSF and clinical governance priorities
• Knowledge of CYP-IAPT principles and their application in practice
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines

Skills

• High level skills in working with professional networks and the ability to advocate for and advance the mental health needs of parents and their children
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychological distress

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.

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.

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.