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Main area
Clinical/Counselling Psychology:Homelessness
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
18.75 hours per week
Job ref
395-PP071-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Jane Atkinson centre
Town
Waltham Forest London
Salary
£58,972 - £68,525 per annum plus HCAS (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Joining #TeamNELFT 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. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

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. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to help improve the mental health care and support offered for people experiencing homelessness in Waltham Forest. The post holder will work with local homeless hostels to provide Psychologically Informed Environments, developing and delivering specialised training and support to staff to formulate  residents’ presentation, behaviour and difficulties from a psychological perspective. This will include understanding the impact of   trauma, and environmental factors on residents.

The post holder will work with VCSE partners to support and facilitate access to psychological therapy for homeless people and will work with the psychology leads to ensure pathways into psychological therapies do not exclude people because of their housing status.

The post holder will primarily be involved in partnership working with local hostels, but will also work in liaison with various stakeholders in the system, e.g. LBWF, NELFT Rough sleepers team, housing associations, GPs, primary and secondary care mental health services, and local CVSEs.

The post holder will work closely with the GP lead for homelessness and the Homelessness Liaison Nurse to provide a holistic offer of support to hostels and support seamless treatment pathway where needed.

 

Main duties of the job

  • To provide consultation and supervision to local providers of homelessness services in the borough
  • To provide specialist consultation and clinical input to complex cases experiencing homelessness across the directorate, as appropriate and as agreed with the Directorate Lead for Psychological Professions. 
  • Working in close collaboration with other psychology services to ensure a smooth pathway for service-users and their families.
  • Leading the homelessness offer in line with national best practice, NICE guidance and in line with expectations from professionals across the Trust and other agencies (including the Integrated Care System)

The post holder will join a supportive and dynamic group of psychological professionals in Waltham forest working across systems to address health inequalities and improve our offer to marginalised people. The group includes people using community psychology informed approaches to work with communities, and a specialist refugee pathway. The latter has an outreach arm and the expectation is that the Refugee lead and Homelessness lead will work closely together where these groups overlap.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT 

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.  As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period 

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Interviews are scheduled for 9th May in the morning

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria
  • HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
  • Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health (e.g. Addictions, homelessness, complex trauma, psychosis, personality disorder, mood disorder).
  • Experience of working with high levels of risk and severe mental health difficulties.
  • Experience of working with hard to engage populations and familiarity with principles of assertive outreach
  • Post qualification experience of teaching, training and consultation to psychology and non-psychology colleagues and stakeholders
  • Experience of leading initiatives addressing inequalities

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health (e.g. Addictions, homelessness, complex trauma, psychosis, personality disorder, mood disorder).

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with high levels of risk and severe mental health difficulties.

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with hard to engage populations and familiarity with principles of assertive outreach

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sara Tresilian
Job title
DD Psychological Professions Waltham Forest
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07718 272363
Additional information

Stella Sluman, Professional Lead for Community Psychology and Trauma Informed Care for Waltham Forest

[email protected]

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