This is an exciting opportunity to work in the newly developed Here for Staff, support service. The service was set up as part of the suicide prevention strategy and the successful candidate will work across the Trust to offer support, consultation, guidance, and brief therapeutic interventions for staff and teams.

For more information, please contact Dr Sarah Shillingford at Sarah.Shillingford@nelft.nhs.uk.

Main duties of the job

• Supporting managers to offer a consistent approach following a patient or staff safety incident.
• Providing support to staff following suicides, serious investigation processes and legal proceedings
• Ensuring a consistent model of supportive/debrief sessions following patient and staff safety incidents.
• Offering parity of offer to all staff, including bank and agency workers
• Using suitable data to capture the experience of affected staff.

About us

NELFT is an innovative and creative NHS Trust, committed to creating a Just and Compassionate culture for staff and patients alike. It recent increased investment in staff support is good evidence of this.

It is conveniently located between London and Essex, so is an easy commute for many people. whilst here you will have the opportunity to develop your own skills and interests further and this is actively encouraged. you will receive good support and supervision and will be joining a family of psychological practitioners.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide a highly skilled psychological staff support service for staff and teams within NELFT involving: brief NICE endorsed individual and group psychological interventions and psychoeducation.

To employ core professional skills in using outcome measures and risk assessments.

To provide psychoeducation to staff groups for preventative measures (such as stress management). These could include one off group sessions, or up to 8 designated sessions.

To facilitate critical post-incident support for individuals and teams.

To work flexibly and independently, as an autonomous clinical practitioner, with the support of Staff Support service colleagues.

To actively support reduced waiting times for staff and teams referred for support.

To offer advice and consultation on staff psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures.

To work closely with managers and teams, and in this capacity to offer consultation, training and supervision to non-psychology staff when required.

To work closely with other colleagues in in NELFT, to be able to demonstrate a high standard of clinical skill, multidisciplinary engagement and flexibility.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research,

To enhance the psychological profile of staff support by attending and contributing both to in-house meetings and external specialist interest groups.

To deliver a culturally and ethically sensitive, equitable psychological service to all groups regardless of race and ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, culture, religion, and disability to include staff users in the design and delivery of the service.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• HCPC registration as a psychological practitioner or BABCP registered practitioner

Desirable

• Additional specialist training in advanced therapy skills, such as CBT, EMDR, Mindfulness

Interest

Essential

• Interest in working with staff teams post critical incident, and who are often highly stressed

Desirable

• Interest in developing new skills and techniques that are shown to be effective in staff support

Experience

Essential

• At least two years post-qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users within the NHS.
• At least two years post-qualification experience of delivering psychological interventions to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts, and presenting problems

Desirable

• Experience of delivering group/psycho-education work

Teaching

Essential

• Experience of teaching, training, and / or supervision.

Desirable

• Experience of supporting and supervising research projects, audit and service evaluation.

Skills

Essential

• Well -developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, with staff and other professional colleagues post critical incident and high levels of stress.

Desirable

• Skills in providing consultation to professional colleagues.

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

NELFT Headquarters, CEME Innovation Centre

Marsh Way

Rainham

RM13 8EU

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