Employer Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Northgate Hospital
Town Great Yarmouth
Salary £62,215 - £72,293 Pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 29/04/2025 23:59
Band 8b
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.
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.
Job overview
Are you a skilled and experienced Clinical Psychologist looking to lead and shape psychological services? This role offers an exciting leadership opportunity, as an 8b Principal Psychologist, to provide high-quality psychological care, develop innovative clinical pathways, and support staff and service users within a 14-25 community Youth Mental Health Team covering the beautiful Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.
The role will involve working alongside a diverse multi-professional team, providing clinical oversight of the psychological therapies offered within the team and offering direct clinical supervision to the 8a Clinical Psychologist.
The team strives to be dynamic and creative and is dedicated to providing a needs-led approach to improve the lives of children and young people by providing a mental health service to be proud of. The team can support hybrid and flexible working patterns to ensure a balanced and healthy work life.
Main duties of the job
1. Clinical Leadership: Provide strategic clinical leadership across a community youth mental health team for young people between the age of 14 and 25, ensuring high standards of psychological care.
2. Service Development: Expanding access to psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions, enhancing collaboration, treatment choice, and effectiveness.
3. Supervision & Line Management: Offer supervision / line management to psychological professionals and trainees, fostering a culture of learning and excellence within the service.
4. Training & Development: Supporting and where appropriate implementing and delivering training to embed psychologically informed practices within the multidisciplinary team, supporting a stepped care model of psychological care.
5. Staff Wellbeing & Resilience: Promote staff wellbeing by leading reflective supervision and post-incident support enhancing resilience and retention in challenging environments.
6. Clinical Practice: Maintain a clinical caseload, delivering high-quality, comprehensive psychological assessment and interventions for complex clients within the service.
7. Service User Engagement: Lead co-produced service development, empowering service users to actively shape psychological services through meaningful collaboration.
8. Innovation & Research: Collaborate with local universities to support teaching, supervise doctoral trainees. Contribute to research and quality improvement initiatives.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
* 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)
* NHS discounts and many more.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
* Further postqualification, postgraduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
* Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
* Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
* Application of psychology in different cultural contexts
* Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training
Skills
* Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
* Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Knowledge
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
* Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
Other
* Capacity to exercise careful clinical judgement whilst having the ability to work with and to hold the stress of others in the work setting
* Able to identify, and employ appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
* Ability to travel independently
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
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