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 overview
An exciting opportunity for a 0.5wte 8C consultant clinical/counselling/forensic psychologist to head up the male inpatient pathway at Hellesdon Hospital, with two wards and a total of 33 beds.
This is a clinically focused role, you will be working alongside the 8a clinical psychologist to help shape and enhance the psychological offer to our male patients. This includes indirectly working with the wider system around them, both internally within the multi-disciplinary ward teams, and the relevant community and social networks. Additionally, you will be directly working with the most complex cases to support shared psychological formulation, barriers to discharge and enhancing their potential for positive discharge as well as meaningful recovery.
Alongside this you will be working closely with the associate director of psychology for the emergency care pathway, to contribute to both locality and trust-wide projects. These include the transformational care strategy, NHS England Priorities and devising of Trust Clinical Networks. The Trust’s recent re-structure has highlighted the need to focus on inpatient flow and discharge as a top priority and with the new build also being open, there will be plenty of opportunity to be influential in change and innovation.
Main duties of the job
The work is challenging, fast-paced and rewarding; you will sit within a friendly, experienced and supportive wider acute psychology team who cover all five wards and CRHT and comprise of clinical psychologists, psychological therapists, an art therapist and an assistant psychologist.
This role would be a great opportunity for someone who is currently banded 8b and looking for a career opportunity to step up to a consultant level post. It would also suit someone who is either looking for a part-time post (and there may be the possibility of hours being extended over time) or, to potentially take it one as a split post sitting alongside your current position.
Within your role you will be expected to provide:
1. Clinical leadership, particularly with regards to MDT decision making, risk management and reduction in restrictive intervention, as well as within the wider inpatient systems.
2. Promotion of a psychologically informed culture through use of consultancy, supervision, training, and team formulations.
3. Overseeing the management and clinical priorities of the other psychology colleagues who work across the male pathway. Working across the wider service and systems to aid inpatient flow, positive discharge and reduce re-admission. Working closely with the Associate Director of Psychologist to contribute to acute, locality and trust-wide priorities, initiatives and projects.
4. Contributing to data collection/analysis, outcome measures and research to support the above.
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. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a more detailed overview of your Key Accountabilities. If you believe you have the necessary qualities to make a positive impact in your local communities, please 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
* Doctorate in clinical/forensic or counselling psychology
* Post doctorate qualification in at least one therapy modality
* Leadership training and/or qualification
* Further training in other relevant therapies
* At least 8 years experience post qualified
* Significant experience working within multi-disciplinary teams
* Significant experience working within adult mental health settings
* Experience working within acute/inpatient settings at some point in their career
* Experience working with men who present with complex and severe mental health difficulties (such as EI, Rehab or Adult CMHTS)
* Training in CBT, Mentalisation or CAT therapy
* Experience in managing a psychology team
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.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Jamie Durrance-Clarke Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist/AD of Psychology Email address: jamie.durrance@nsft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07557744742
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