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The post will involve working in the newly created referrals and assessment service in City and Hackney. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, the post-holder will carry out triage and assessment, as well as providing consultation with colleagues from other professions to guide initial formulations and ensure service users receive care in the correct pathways.
The post-holder will work with the psychological lead to develop good working relationships with in-borough psychological services and partnership agencies, including primary care and third-sector organisations who provide support to specific ethnic, cultural and religious groups in City and Hackney.
The post-holder will have a role in developing the service in co-production with service users, and will provide training and support to multi-disciplinary colleagues.
This an exciting opportunity to be involved in the launch of a new service model and we are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about improving the experience of care for service users and increasing equity of access to psychological services for people from marginalised communities.
Main duties of the job
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Knowledge of Integrated care agenda
- Approaches to addressing population physical and mental health
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working therapeutically in MDT mental health settings directly with service users with severe and complex mental health difficulties including psychosis, personality disorder, complex trauma, substance misuse and significant difficulties in the area of their interpersonal functioning
- Experience of psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of service users across the full range of multidisciplinary care
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Developing collaborative, formulation-driven risk assessment and safety plan
- Experience of the application of psychological assessments and interventions in different cultural contexts
- Experience of teaching, line managing and supervising
Desirable
- Experience of supervising staff from other disciplines
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Evidence of continuous professional development particularly in relation to the development of knowledge and skills for working with people with complex mental health difficulties
- Strong, demonstrable skills in MDT working, including sharing and developing a formulation that can be used to inform the treatment plan, with the MDT
- Knowledge of theory and practice of a number of specialised psychological therapies, such as psychotherapy, MBT, CBT and EMDR
- Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis and service evaluation.
- To be able to engage with service users, carers and experts-by-experience in the co-production of service development including the assessment process
- Able to maintain a high degree of sensitivity and professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and best practice guidance, including the mental health act and Nice
Education/Qualifications/Trainings
Essential
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Clinical supervision training for doctoral clinical /counselling psychology trainees
Desirable
- Further training in a therapeutic modality relevant to complex mental health e.g. trauma interventions such as EMDR/ TF-CBT
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This advert is for Senior Applied Psychologist with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 per annum Inc HCA. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 12 Jul 2026.
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