Lead Psychologist for Community Psychology Team | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Psychologist for Community Psychology Team

Are you passionate about community psychology?

Do you have a track record of developing interventions with community partners? Do you want to lead a service that makes a difference? If so, we want to hear from you.

The Community Psychology Team in Tower Hamlets has gone from strength to strength. It has recruited a team of psychological professionals and peer support workers and begun working alongside a range of community organisations: developing relationships and providing co-produced interventions, based on local need. The team is looking for a lead to continue and develop its unique contribution to borough-wide services and the residents of Tower Hamlets.

The lead will support and guide the team to collaboratively strengthen community resources; improve accessibility and cultural relevance of psychological therapies for local communities, and facilitate engagement of service users with community resources. They will also be an ambassador for this work within the local, regional and wider systems.

The successful candidate will provide highly specialised knowledge, skills and leadership to the team and adjacent services in Tower Hamlets. Ensuring that co-production, community psychology principles and the contributions of peer support guide the team's development.

As the team's lead, you will operationally manage, oversee the clinical work and ensure that professional standards are adhered to. The activities of the team include a blend of community engagement activities - fostering relationships with community organisations and within services; co-producing collective interventions and ensuring the effective delivery of 1:1 psychologically informed interventions and peer support activities. You will also have a role developing links with the transformation of community mental health services and contributing the borough's psychological services as a lead.

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.