We are delighted to advertise the role of a consultant psychologist to become the Associate Director of Psychology for the Central Norfolk Children and Young Persons Community Teams. The services in Central Norfolk provide specialist mental health interventions to young people up to 25 in the central Norfolk area, as well as providing specialist intervention to Looked After and Adopted Children across Norfolk and Waveney.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate consultant level experience in child and family services, as well as experience working across the age range and services that are being delivered.
This is an exciting time to join as the trust has just completed a restructure and has moved to delivering place-based services across locality areas, linked to other services, the central locality delivers services to those areas covered by the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. This role is a key role which has been created because of that restructure and the successful applicant will take a significant role in leading in further transformation plans.
The area includes a mix of urban communities as well as including the University of East Anglia and the Norwich University of the Arts, both of which bring large student communities into the area.
This position is a newly created substantive post as well as fulfilling the role of Associate Director of Psychology will be the lead Consultant Psychologist across the Central Norfolk CYP teams.
1. Provide Professional leadership for all psychology staff in the Clinical Network.
2. Provide professional advice on psychological practice and providing assurance on delivery of psychological approaches.
3. Develop psychological approaches and interventions and roles to support care delivery across the clinical network.
4. Contribute to the supervision of staff in the service, including professional appraisal and identification of CPD needs across the service.
5. Lead on policy development and implementation of psychological service provision within the clinical network.
6. Work with the multi-profession’s leadership team to embed NSFTY shared culture and values.
7. Undertake audit, teaching and research activities, and promote research activity within the clinical network.
8. Ensure that arrangements are in place for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the clinical network.
9. Provide a specialist clinical service directly to clients and through provision of expert advice, consultancy and supervision to professional colleagues.
10. Work closely with the director for psychology to ensure the development and governance aims of psychological services are met, within and across clinical networks and/or other functional departments of NSFT.
11. Lead and participate in Trust wide initiatives and projects.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Neil Toplis Job title: Operational Manager Email address: neil.toplis@nsft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07443 293730
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