Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Personality Disorder Lead
Band 8a
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
鈥淭o be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care鈥.
Our Purpose
鈥淲e care for people every day. What we do together, matters鈥.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.听
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Practitioner Psychologist to take up a split post, working 0.5 WTE within our Personality Disorder and Complex Needs (PD&CN) service and 0.5 WTE in the Specialist Adult Community Mental Health Team (SMHT) based at Stansted, Essex. This post is available at Band 7 or Band 8a, dependent on experience. If appointed at Band 7 this will be a developmental post and the post-holder will work through a preceptorship towards Band 8a level.听听We are looking for someone interested in developing expertise in specific psychological interventions aimed at reducing risk and addressing emotional dysregulation, preferably Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and we will support further training to achieve this.
We offer a CPD package of up to 拢6,000 to be used in the first three years of employment following successful completion of the probationary period and linked to the appraisal process as agreed with your line manager.听听
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Main duties of the job
Your role in the SMHT will place you alongside experienced psychologists, offering assessment, formulation and provision of evidence-based psychological therapies for people with a wide range of mental health difficulties.听 We use a trauma-informed consultation approach to support our MDT colleagues to actively engage clients in safety and stabilisation work. This psychologically informed approach to client care ensures that clients are able to make effective use of more formal psychological interventions/therapies.
You will also play a key role in developing local PD&CN services.听 For example you will be supported to develop a local 鈥楳ulti-Agency Forum鈥 which is a much valued space for multi-disciplinary clinical discussion and treatment planning for our complex clients across West Essex.听 You will also provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to MDT colleagues.听 This part of the role supports three locality mental health treatment teams in Harlow, Stansted and Loughton.听 Depending on your level of experience you may also offer supervision to a CAP, to trainees and assistants.听听You will be supported to link in with other PD&CN leads across Essex.
There is a strong sense of cohesion and support amongst psychologists working in West Essex.听 We have a monthly District wide meeting where we get together to share our experiences, we have monthly community psychology meetings and a monthly CPD protected session.听听
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work as an integral member of the Adult Community Psychology Service in West Essex.
- To provide psychological interventions to service users with highly complex and severe presentations
- To provide verbal and written formulations for service users presenting with highly complex problem, their families and carers, and other professionals.
- To offer a regular multi-agency forum for discussion of complex cases
- To link in with other PD&CN leads across Essex to share best practice and to develop a shared understanding of working with complexity.
- To take a lead in supporting clinicians working with complexity and trauma.
- To deliver pre-existing group psychological interventions; to liaise with other professional about the progress of service users attending group interventions.
- Please see attached job description for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate or equivalent
- HCP Registered
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate training in specialised areas of practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with complex presentations
Desirable criteria
- Specialist experience of personality disorder
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Penny Wilson
- Job title
- Consultant Counselling Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07851 054617
- Additional information
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