Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
We are seeking a highly motivated and creative HCPC-registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join a developing psychology service working across adult homeless hostels in Tower Hamlets.
The service is focused on supporting hostel providers to embed Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs), trauma-informed and neuro-informed care. The service takes a non-pathologising, strengths-based and community psychology approach, recognising the impact of adversity, inequality and exclusion on mental health. The role involves close partnership working with hostel staff, residents, and local organisations, with a strong emphasis on lived experience, co-production and inclusion.
Within this context, the postholder will play a key role in shaping psychologically informed provision across the system. This includes supporting staff teams through consultation, reflective practice and training; contributing to service development; and improving residents’ access to psychological and therapeutic opportunities.
This role is suited to an experienced psychologist with strong systemic thinking and the ability to work across organisational boundaries. You will have experience working with people with complex mental health needs and from diverse backgrounds, and be confident working collaboratively with a range of partners.
This is an opportunity to join an innovative service working at the intersection of mental health and homelessness in a diverse inner‑London borough.
Main duties of the job
Core tasks will include facilitating reflective practice, staff training, providing psychological advice (informal, ad hoc, and formal consultation), assessment (including psychometrics and neuropsychological) and brief interventions with service users and carers. The post also involves the development of partnership working across all relevant sectors including health, social care, housing, criminal justice etc. By supporting staff, the goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of homeless people, promote their social connections, community engagement and participation.
We aim to develop and deliver our services through co‑production with people with lived experience. We would expect you to be fully committed to partnership working and co‑production.
About us
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.
Person Specification
Education/qualification/training
- HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling psychologist with post qualification experience
- Further training in a therapeutic modality or psychological intervention relevant to homelessness e.g. trauma, trauma informed approaches, addiction
Experience
- Experience of working as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist in a multi-disciplinary team for adults with complex mental health needs
- Experience of teaching, training, consultation and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of working in partnership within homelessness and/or third sector agencies
- Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups
Knowledge and Skills
- Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to provide a culturally competent and non-stigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for complex health and social needs (e.g. trauma, self-harm, people diagnosed with ‘personality disorder’, psychosis, dual diagnosis, homelessness, persons with additional disabilities etc)
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for specific populations that psychological services have traditionally found difficult to work with
Other
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviour
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and able to contain the stress of others
- Demonstrably respectful approach to service users, carers, colleagues, other professionals and professional contacts. Willingness to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally
- Experience of co-production with people with lived experience of mental distress
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.
£66,274 to £73,496 a yearper annum pro rata Inc HCA
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