Clinical Psychologist

at  Norfolk Suffolk Foundation Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people’s and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Staff Support service is seeking an 8a applied psychologist to join a team of experienced professionals, delivering mental health support to people working at NSFT. This is a new post and follows a reconfiguration of the service to meet the emerging needs of the organisation. The successful candidate will work with an 8b clinical lead psychologist, TRiM practitioners, RMNs, psychotherapists and a research lead. The work is overseen by a consultant-grade psychologist and sits alongside our portfolio of successful Talking Therapies offerings in Norfolk & Waveney and Suffolk.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

This role involves direct clinical care of staff experiencing a variety of mental health presentations, often following difficult incidents at work.

Duties of the role include:

• To provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service for people with mental health problems across NSFT.
• To work within professional guidelines and exercise shared responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the Service. To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• To undertake specialised clinical work within the Service which will include assessment, direct and indirect intervention, supervision, training and consultancy.
• To provide specialist knowledge and consultation to staff at all levels and contribute to their development.
• To utilise research and training skills and knowledge for clinical audit, policy and service development, research activity and other programmes within the Service.

This will require face to face working with individuals and therefore, while some hybrid working may be possible, it is not a remote working position.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.
CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.
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