Job summary
NELFT's senior Psychological Professionals' leadership team is excited to advertise a Deputy Director role within our Acute Rehabilitation Directorate (ARD). This role has been vacated due to relocation. The successful candidate will provide psychological and clinical leadership into the ARD Directorate which holds crisis, acute and diversion services. These include psychiatric inpatient wards, home treatment crisis teams, psychiatric liaison, forensic psychology, crisis houses, crisis hubs and learning disability, autism crisis services, forensic and neuropsychology. The successful candidate will be part of the most senior team of Psychological Professionals within NELFT led by the Director of Psychological Professions and will have peers covering Redbridge, Havering, Waltham Forest, Barking and Dagenham and Essex, Kent, Talking Therapies. The role will include oversight of all psychological provision for all ages within ARD. The post holder will become a core member of the directorate's multidisciplinary senior leadership team and will lead a group of senior psychological professionals within the Directorate.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will hold Trust-wide strategic, clinical focus on psychological delivery in the following speciality areas:
Patient safety forums
Relational Security
Core member of the Relational Security Facility and taking a lead role in cultural change in line with the faculty aims
In recent years, there has been major investment into Psychological Professions and clinical leadership within NELFT. This has resulted in a vastly expanded senior Psychological Professional leadership team and a major transformation. This work is within the implementation phase and looks at several areas, including the creation of parity between bandings of Psychological Professionals in different areas of NELFT; ensuring that the care delivery is trauma informed for both people who use services and staff; and the integration of siloed psychological offers of care into multidisciplinary secondary care adult mental health provision. The transformation also included the coproduction of an accountability framework in which clinical and operational colleagues work collaboratively and in partnership to deliver the best care for people who use services, their carers, family members and supporters. This offer is in line with NELFT's commitment to being patient and clinically led, and operationally enabled.
About us
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735).
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
On-call payment
This post will be required to participate in the Trust on-call rota and attracts payment of 0.75% of the basic salary.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Now is an important time to be joining NELFT. We are a patient and clinically led organisation which is operationally enabled. NELFTs cohort of Psychological Professions hold a vision which centres on coproduction, trauma informed care, building a community of psychological professionals and delivery of inclusion and parity of access to all residents in the areas we serve. We strive to provide inclusive, accessible and individualised offers of care in a timely manner; to reduce health inequalities; and to recognise the harm caused by social injustice in the communities we serve. We are committed to working with integrity, authenticity and courage to deliver the best possible psychological care to those using our services.
On-call paymentThis post will be required to participate in the Trust on-call rota and attracts payment of 0.75% of the basic salary.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Now is an important time to be joining NELFT. We are a patient and clinically led organisation which is operationally enabled. NELFTs cohort of Psychological Professions hold a vision which centres on coproduction, trauma informed care, building a community of psychological professionals and delivery of inclusion and parity of access to all residents in the areas we serve. We strive to provide inclusive, accessible and individualised offers of care in a timely manner; to reduce health inequalities; and to recognise the harm caused by social injustice in the communities we serve. We are committed to working with integrity, authenticity and courage to deliver the best possible psychological care to those using our services.
On-call paymentThis post will be required to participate in the Trust on-call rota and attracts payment of 0.75% of the basic salary.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- Post-graduate qualification in psychology or a psychological therapy (e.g. clinical or counselling psychology, psychotherapy)
- BABCP accredited or meeting eligibility criteria for BABCP accreditation
- Post Graduate training in psychodynamic psychotherapy as accredited by UKPC or BPC.
Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed and advanced knowledge of a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions and their practical application in a range of mental health therapeutic settings
- A robust and broad understanding of national health and social care strategy and policy, in relation to developing services for secondary care
Desirable
- Knowledge of strategic planning process
- Comprehensive knowledge of mental health policy
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of leading groups of psychological professionals working in NHS services
- Open, participative, dynamic and supportive leadership and management style
- Ability to build alliances and secure ownership of proposals across organisational boundaries
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, featuring: breadth of outlook and political skill necessary to establish effective working relationships with staff at all levels within and outside the organisation
- Ability to identify, define, promote, communicate and achieve clear organisational values and goals, effective management processes and rational and timely decision making
- Ability to work in partnership with other key professionals within and outside the organisation and a partnership approach to work across agencies
- Ability to analyse complex issues, to think and plan to achieve both tactical and strategic objectives and to exercise sound judgement in the face of conflicting pressures
- Effective in conflict resolution and management
- Ability to present complex information to a diverse audience
Desirable
- positive outcomes of service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- Post-graduate qualification in psychology or a psychological therapy (e.g. clinical or counselling psychology, psychotherapy)
- BABCP accredited or meeting eligibility criteria for BABCP accreditation
- Post Graduate training in psychodynamic psychotherapy as accredited by UKPC or BPC.
Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed and advanced knowledge of a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions and their practical application in a range of mental health therapeutic settings
- A robust and broad understanding of national health and social care strategy and policy, in relation to developing services for secondary care
Desirable
- Knowledge of strategic planning process
- Comprehensive knowledge of mental health policy
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of leading groups of psychological professionals working in NHS services
- Open, participative, dynamic and supportive leadership and management style
- Ability to build alliances and secure ownership of proposals across organisational boundaries
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, featuring: breadth of outlook and political skill necessary to establish effective working relationships with staff at all levels within and outside the organisation
- Ability to identify, define, promote, communicate and achieve clear organisational values and goals, effective management processes and rational and timely decision making
- Ability to work in partnership with other key professionals within and outside the organisation and a partnership approach to work across agencies
- Ability to analyse complex issues, to think and plan to achieve both tactical and strategic objectives and to exercise sound judgement in the face of conflicting pressures
- Effective in conflict resolution and management
- Ability to present complex information to a diverse audience
Desirable
- positive outcomes of service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
