Job summary
- Main area
- Ocean Psychology
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term contract)
- Hours
- 30 hours per week (Part Time)
- Job ref
- 363-CH8207992
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Vivienne Cohen House
- Town
- london
- Salary
- per annum
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Ocean Psychologist, Psychotherapist or CBT Therapist
7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. 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.
Job overview
Ocean is offering a 0.8 WTE fixed term 12 month maternity cover for a band 7 psychologist or psychotherapist. OCEAN is a psychology-led maternal mental health service combining psychology and specialist midwifery to support women and birthing people who are experiencing moderate-severe mental health difficulties relating to baby loss, birth trauma and parent-infant separation. Ocean is a community based service, offering a range of interventions including one to one psychology, group work and indirect work with maternity services.
Ocean is a service that prioritises addressing maternal mental health inequalities and developing inclusive services. Therefore, the successful candidate must be keen to embrace the privileges of working in diverse boroughs and have experience of working with women and birthing people from a range of social, religious, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds to deliver accessible and psychologically informed care.
A significant part of this role will focus on the provision of specialist, co produced, psychological input to women who have experienced loss and trauma on their maternal journeys. In addition to holding their own caseload, the successful candidate will contribute to screening of new referrals into the service, conduct assessments and contribute to group work where appropriate. There will also be opportunities to develop training and partnership working with local community groups, maternity staff, mental health and social services.
Main duties of the job
- Providing psychological assessments to women and birthing people under the care of Ocean MMHS
- Developing and delivering group and one to one interventions as appropriate for the needs of the service
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder is responsible for the provision of highly specialist, co produced, psychological input to women who have experienced loss and trauma through their maternity experience, particularly those vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions and will also manage other psychological therapists. Psychological input includes highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions delivered within acute hospital and community settings as required.
The characteristics of the core population receiving direct services are women who have lost a baby through recurrent miscarriage, termination of pregnancy, still birth, neonatal death, and parent-infant separation due to social care proceedings. In addition, the service will provide for women who have experienced birth trauma, whose needs can not be met by Talking Therapies services or perinatal mental health team. The core population will be women who are experiencing emotional distress that requires specialist support and psychological intervention. Work with partners may also be included where indicated by the formulation.
Ocean is based in Vivienne Cohen House in Hackney and offers support to women and birthing people across East London in the boroughs of City & Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets and therefore offer provide clinics across several different hospitals and community bases in East London.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS OR appropriate Psychotherapy qualification OR CBT qualification Registration with the Health Professionals Council or other appropriate regulatory body. Relevant specialist training or qualifications. Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study or experience (or a combination of these) to an appropriate level approved by the Lead of Psychological Services and demonstrated by certification, documented supervision logs, management appraisal documentation and/or assessment at interview
Desirable criteria
- Post Qualification Training in EMDR or CBT for trauma.
- Community psychology or narrative therapy training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified Clinical or Counselling psychologist at a specialist level or assessed experience of working as a qualified psychotherapist within NHS
- Good understanding of other professionals’ theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Experience of providing specialist psychological assessment, and treatment of service users utilising at least two main models as appropriate (including EMDR or tfCBT) 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 to junior psychologists and other professions.
- The application of psychologically informed interventions in different cultural contexts including working with interpreters.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in maternal mental health or perinatal services
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- The theory and practice of psychological assessment and therapies in relation to treatment of a range of mental health disorders including EMDR, (tf)CBT, CFT, and other trauma informed therapies.
- Risk assessment practice and procedures.
- The value of service user participation in the delivery and development of services.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the presentation of complex mental health problems arising from maternal trauma and loss.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, communication and active listening skills with service users, carers and staff.
- Ability to work independently to maintain agreed caseload and activity levels.
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Charlotte Carthy
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 510 8151
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