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
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Job overview
Our friendly and experienced team are delighted to invite applications for a highly motivated and committed Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to join the Adult Autism Diagnosis Service in Suffolk (ADSS). ADSS assesses adults aged 18+ across the whole of Suffolk for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It is an exciting time to be joining us as we develop our service alongside nationally changing perceptions and awareness of ASD and collaborate with our colleagues within mental health services as we aim to reshape how ASD is understood and supported. Working alongside a senior clinical psychologist and an MDT with backgrounds in mental health nursing, social work and speech and language therapy the successful applicant will have an opportunity to be part of a team with a wealth of knowledge and experience. We also have experts by experience who we work closely with when developing our services. ADSS is a team who are passionate about the needs of autistic people and are looking for a highly motivated individual who shares our commitment.
Applications from newly qualified psychologists will be considered at Band 7.
“The entire service actually exceeded my expectations”
“Your service is exceptional”
(feedback from service users)
Main duties of the job
Working across Suffolk you will be part of a highly specialist ASD assessment service.
You will be expected to:
* Working as an autonomous highly skilled practitioner carry out specialised assessments of ASD. The team has clinicians trained in both the ADOS and DISCO.
* provide advice and consultation to other clinical staff within the team and with our colleagues within other Trust services.
* contribute and lead formulations taking into account where additional complexities such as mental health, attachment, mild learning disability, or other neurodevelopmental conditions are present.
* Working alongside the senior Clinical Psychologist to be involved in ongoing service development and in shaping service innovations.
* We offer placements to trainees from UEA on a regular basis and the post holder would be expected to clinically supervise and manage the workloads of assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists within the service as required.
* Contribute towards the continuing professional development, training, advising and supporting the Multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
This post is 0.6 WTE with flexibility around the hours and days worked.
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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
* Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
Desirable criteria
* Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses
* Supervisor training, to be supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
Experience
Essential criteria
* 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 working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologists.
* Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
* Experience of supervision and teaching
Desirable criteria
* Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post
* Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
Skills
Essential criteria
* Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
* Skills in consultation to professional and non-professional groups
* Skills in creating and delivering presentations and training programmes
* Skills in neuropsychological assessment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
* Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context
Other
Essential criteria
* Able to identify, provide and promote appropriate support strategies to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
* Ability to travel independently
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.
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.
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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.
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