About the job

Summary

Occupational health is a specialist branch of medicine focusing on the health of staff in the workplace. The NCA has a team of OH professionals, which are a mixture of permanent NCA Psychologists and contractors through our OH provider. The aim of OH is to find out what impact work has on our officers health and make sure that officers are fit to undertake the role they are employed to do, both physically and emotionally.

Job description

To provide practical and clinical support to National Crime Agency (NCA) Officers on matters relating to wellbeing, occupational and mental health via a range of mediums such as therapeutic interventions, psychoeducational workshops, articles, network management and support. Co-manage and lead the NCA’s Mental Health First Aid Network.

Candidates need to have at least 3 years post qualifying experience, be able to apply best practice methods and develop, bespoke time limited interventions. You will be able to write and deliver psycho-educational workshops and experiential sessions such as mindfulness, relating to wellbeing and mental health and write articles for dissemination internally including those with a self-help focus.

***All NCA officers must hold SC Enhanced upon entry as a minimum. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Co-management and leadership of the agency’s Mental Health First Aid Network. This will involve elements such as supporting members of the network with the requirements of their role, organising and managing the network whilst providing clinical support.

• Provision of psychological support post incident as required using best practice protocols, such as defusing, EMDR, CBT, Rewind technique and talking therapies.

• Support in the delivery of the People Plan and the Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

• Working as part of a dedicated team, in conjunction with other medical professionals, to ensure that the medical and psychological requirements of a diverse workforce of approximately 4,500 officers are met.

A flexible approach is required, as there may be travel within the role depending upon business need as appropriate. Where possible this is planned in advance.

Memberships

Registration with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Proven 3 years post qualification experience in delivering Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, both individual and group settings, with experience of designing, writing and delivering ‘self-help’/clinical material, ideally with experience of an OH Setting.
• Detailed knowledge of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, at least 1 years’ experience in delivering EMDR treatment and be able to provide psychological support post incident via a range of mediums including virtual delivery.
• The ability to utilise welfare case findings and trends to identify, initiate, plan and implement interventions in collaboration with Occupational Health colleagues.
• .Experience of Leading a Team

Benefits

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:

• Civil Service pension scheme

• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service

• Training and development opportunities

• Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).