The Clinical Service Lead is a key clinical and management role responsible for the day-to-day clinical delivery of all aspects of the Staff Support Service. We are looking for a dedicated, compassionate, dynamic, and enthusiastic Clinical Lead who is passionate about supporting and working with all staff across the organisation who have experienced Occupational Trauma that is impacting them professionally and personally. The Clinical Lead will help shape the team to ensure sustainability and flexibility for the future.
This is an opportunity to work in a team of experienced clinicians who launched through COVID and have worked across the wider front-line services to offer support to staff. The service has worked hard to build and develop a Trauma Informed approach focusing on resilience and recovery. This service is now aligned with local Talking Therapies Service covering both Norfolk and Suffolk areas.
The Staff Support Service, besides a small team of professionals providing one-to-one therapeutic intervention, also consists of the TRIM (Trauma Risk Incident Management) and in addition hosts a Primary Care Network (PCN) TRiM Manager as well as supporting the Trust BME Engagement and Research Lead. The service has been managed through some changes and is developing a revised service model.
Main duties of the job
This role involves direct clinical care, strategic development of the service, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. The successful candidate will provide specialised psychological support to staff members experiencing occupational trauma and other relevant clinical presentations. Supervised by the Band 8D Consultant Psychologist, this role will be alongside Senior Psychotherapists and the Service Manager.
Duties of the role include:
* To provide a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service for people with complex mental health problems across the Service.
* To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the Service. To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by other psychologists (newly qualified and trainees) and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
* To undertake specialised clinical work within the Service and with external agencies, 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 audit, policy and service development, research activity, and other programmes within the Service.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
Benefits included with this role are:
* a comprehensive in-house & external training programme
* career progression
* starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
* 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.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities. If you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctorate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
* Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
* Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
* Experience of working with a wide variety and severity of client groups and clinical problems in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
* Experience of representing psychology within MDT settings (clinical and organisational contexts).
* Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£53,755 to £60,504 a year gross per annum
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