Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, Newham, Newham

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

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EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, Newham, Newham

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 15 Jun | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 02045ace8dd541f2a0aa913d66227217

Full Job Description

There is an opportunity for you to join our team at the Coborn Centre in East London. The Coborn Centre is located in well-resourced, purpose-built premises at Newham University Hospital. We currently work with 12-18-year-old young people and their families across the East London boroughs of Newham, Hackney & Tower Hamlets as well as Luton and Bedfordshire. The Centre which opened in 2006 comprises of 12 acute beds, 16 intensive care beds and up to 9-day patient places. The service has led the way in the design of adolescent mental health facilities nationally.

Young people present with eating disorders, psychosis, OCD, and emerging and emotional regulation difficulties. The young people are in varying stages of recovery and can be dynamic and resourceful. We actively encourage them to help us enhance their experience of care. We have an eclectic and energetic staff group and are seeking a candidate who has an interest in developing our current service and delivering our clinical care in new ways. We pride ourselves in being a learning centre and believe in the development of our staff team through fortnightly academic sessions, regular training, reflective practice and complex case discussions. This supports our strong team ethos on cross-discipline learning, evidence based practice and being reflexive practitioners.

As a service we would support Band 7 candidates who would be willing to develop over a 18 month period into a Band 8a role in our service.

The Clinical Psychology Service provides formulation driven, therapeutic assessments in order to facilitate an understanding of the young person's strengths and needs. From the assessment, time limited interventions are offered both directly and through consultation with members of the wider multi-disciplinary team, i.e. medical, nursing, family therapy, occupational therapy, art therapies, social work and education. A range of therapeutic orientations is represented in the wider team including psychodynamic, systemic and cognitive behavioural perspectives. As a team, we are currently developing our skills in third-wave CBT areas of Mindfulness and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. The wider therapy team has also recently developed a family therapy clinic to broaden opportunities for our young people and families, as well as developing the team's systemic thinking. Psychological input begins at admission and is focused on enabling young people to return to their community
as soon as possible.

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

You will join the psychology team which consists of one lead clinical psychologist, one counselling psychologists, a North Thames trainee clinical psychologist and two assistant psychologists. You will continue to develop the psychology provision through providing supervision to the wider MDT as well as hold a clinical case load. There will be considerable opportunities for developing your clinical leadership skills, sharing your clinical expertise and developing your capacity to enjoy multi-disciplinary team working. We would value your input to our quality improvement programme, and the development of psychological skills within the wider team. We are committed to staff development and reflective practice, with considerable resources in the Team and wider trust to support this.

We are seeking a candidate who has a passion for working with adolescents presenting with complex mental health presentations. We are working to develop our training opportunities as a service and would be able to offer an 18 month development role for the right Band 7 candidate stepping up into a Band 8a position. We welcome informal enquiries and would enjoy showing you around The Coborn and talking to you about our work.

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