Job summary

NELFT's senior Psychological Professionals' leadership team is excited to advertise a Deputy Director role within Barking and Dagenham. This role has been vacated due to retirement. 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, Essex, Kent, Talking Therapies and our Acute and Rehabilitation Directorate. The post holder will be a Children, Young People and Families' specialist and will work in close partnership with the Deputy Director for Psychological Professions responsible for Essex and Kent (who is also a CYP specialist) in driving forward the NELFT strategic objectives for CYP services across the Trust, with particular focus in London. The role will include oversight of all psychological provision for all ages within Barking and Dagenham. The post holder will become a core member of the directorate's multidisciplinary senior leadership team and will lead a group of Psychological Professional leads both at Place and within the CYP speciality.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing an expert clinical perspective on the transformation of Child and Adolescent Mental Health provision across the London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest. The post holder will also be a key lead in the clinical delivery of Mental Health Support Teams across North East London. The post holder will hold Trust-wide strategic, clinical focus on psychological delivery in the following speciality areas:

Learning disabilities (all age)

Eating disorders

Clinical health psychology services

Now is an important time to be joining NELFT. We are a patient and clinically led organisation which is operationally enabled. NELFT's 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.

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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).

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.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 p.a. pro rata for part time).