Principal Clinical/counselling Child Psychologist - Romford, United Kingdom - NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Verified Company

Romford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

The post holder will carry out professionally based duties and responsibilities in the following areas: To provide a psychological wellbeing outreach service to all asylum seekers and refugees who live in Havering.

To address emotional distress that asylum seekers and refugees experience in a non-stigmatising context.

To raise awareness about the benefits of therapeutic interventions among the asylum seeker and refugee population, reduce stigma, and improve access to support for those who do not conceptualise their difficulties as psychological.

Building trauma alliance with the system to provide early intervention and understanding of trauma from a population health perspective.

To provide a holistic assessment and therapy service to asylum seeker and refugee children, young people and families who present with complex needs that require specialist intervention.

To offer a flexible care model that may include offering assessments and/or therapy within the hotels, family homes (if clinically appropriate for the presenting difficulties and intervention), offices and buildings of organisations working with asylum seekers and refugees in Havering, as well as in primary and secondary schools, and community settings as required.

To offer culturally appropriate and gender sensitive interventions that mobilise individual and collective strengths and are based on genuine partnership and collaboration, actively involving the service users in decision making in order to contribute to long-term empowerment.

To encourage positive coping strategies and contribute to building resilience amongst children and young people and their families, in order to enable them to manage emotional challenges and difficulties safely, and lay down the foundations for good mental health.

To reduce the need for crisis-led/statutory services in the short, medium and long term.

To liaise with other professional within CAMHS, Talking Therapies, GPs education, social care and safeguarding services as appropriate to ensure the safety and wellbeing of asylum seekers and refugees.

To deliver psycho-educational and psychosocial group activities to support asylum seekers, refugees and their families to support understanding of normal responses to loss, trauma and stress, and enhancing self
- confidence and the wellbeing of Service users in order to promote their ability to integrate into communities. To deliver psycho-educational groups and reflective practice for those working closely with asylum seekers and refugees to support understanding of normal responses to loss, trauma and stress, and enhancing self
- confidence and the wellbeing of Service users in order to promote their ability to integrate into communities.

Liaising closely with refugee community groups and partnership agencies, working within an outreach model and community psychology principles in order to upskill the system in understanding trauma and creating enablement for this population group.

Please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification attachment.