East London NHS Foundation Trust • London E1 4DG
About this role
The post holder will provide psychological interventions to people with complex mental health needs. They will also contribute to developing and maintaining partnership working with local community groups to promote social connections, community engagement and participation. The post holder will contribute to staff supervision and training and provide psychological advice (informal, ad hoc, and formal consultation) to other staff teams, community workers, carers and people with lived experience of mental distress.
The post is suitable for a psychologist who is keen to embrace the privileges of working in a diverse borough, and a commitment to working with people with complex mental health difficulties. This includes working with a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds as well as working in partnership with staff teams and community organisations to deliver psychologically informed care.
- To develop and deliver community based interventions that are psychologically, socially and ecologically informed.
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions to secondary mental health services and those in the community, particularly those with complex mental health problem, who are vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions.
- To develop partnership working with local community organisations.To develop, through co-production, psychological interventions that address the needs of those served including resilience and recovery, shared support, social connections and community engagement.
- To provide highly specialist consultation and support to staff of ELFT and other community organisations.
- To provide regular support and consultation to staff including the facilitation of reflective practice.
- To promote population health and develop innovative ways of working that will also inform the further development of the Trust's approach to population health
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.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions to secondary mental health services and those in the community, particularly those with complex mental health problem, who are vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions.
To develop partnership working with local community organisations.
To develop, through co-production, psychological interventions that address the needs of those served including resilience and recovery, shared support, social connections and community engagement.
To provide highly specialist consultation and support to staff of ELFT and other community organisations.
To provide regular support and consultation to staff including the facilitation of reflective practice.
To promote population health and develop innovative ways of working that will also inform the further development of the Trust’s approach to population health
Be responsible for and ensure the provision of a specialist psychological perspective to the work of statutory and voluntary sector agencies working with people who have complex health and social needs.
Manage, co-ordinate, provide clinical supervision to the work of assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, other psychologists as appropriate.
Develop and implement an evaluation of the work.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Participate in CPD and other developmental activities, keeping up to date with relevant psychological research and national guidance (DoH, NICE etc).
Follow broadly defined policies and pursue agreed objectives but exercise freedom in deciding on how best to implement or achieve them.
To work autonomously, within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology within the work.
To propose and implement policy changes to the way in which psychology is delivered in collaboration with Service/Teams and Professional management.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Jun 2026