# Psychology

**Company**: NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
**Location**: Harold Wood
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £49387.00 to £56515.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join our Havering Early Intervention in Psychosis team as a Band 7 Psychological Therapist, working 1 day/week for 12 months. You'll develop your skills, deliver evidence-based therapy, and make a real difference.

The role involves providing specialist psychological assessments, formulation, and evidence-based psychological interventions for people experiencing psychosis and complex mental health difficulties. You'll work closely with the multidisciplinary team, providing psychological expertise, consultation, and support to colleagues.

Key responsibilities:

- Provide comprehensive psychological assessments for service users and their families

- Develop and deliver evidence-based treatment plans for individuals experiencing a first episode of psychosis

- Offer supervision and guidance on psychological approaches to colleagues

- Undertake risk assessments and contribute to risk management

- Develop collaborative, evidence-based formulations and treatment plans

- Deliver evidence-based psychological interventions, including individual, family, and group work

- Apply psychological therapies for psychosis, including CBT-informed approaches and trauma-focused interventions where appropriate

- Work collaboratively within the EIP multidisciplinary team and provide psychological consultation to other professionals

- Support the development of psychologically informed practice across the service

- Participate in clinical supervision, CPD, training, and professional development

- Maintain accurate clinical records and comply with Trust policies, professional standards, safeguarding, and confidentiality requirements

Requirements:

- A doctoral qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or a core mental health profession with postgraduate CBT training and BABCP registration

- Appropriate professional registration, including HCPC and BABCP where applicable

- Experience of assessment, formulation, treatment planning, and delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions

- Strong knowledge of CBT and evidence-based psychological approaches to psychosis

- Knowledge of trauma-informed approaches and, ideally, experience with interventions such as EMDR, TF-CBT, or NET

- Excellent communication, interpersonal, report-writing, and consultation skills

- Ability to work collaboratively with service users, carers, and professionals from diverse backgrounds

Benefits:

- Be part of a dedicated team making a tangible difference in the lives of individuals and families affected by psychosis

- Work within an organisation that values inclusion, professional growth, and innovative approaches to care

## Skills

### Required
- CBT
- psychological assessments
- evidence-based interventions
- risk management
- trauma-informed approaches

### Nice to have
- EMDR
- TF-CBT
- NET

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