The Staff Support service is seeking an 8a applied psychologist to join a team of experienced professionals, delivering mental health support to people working at NSFT. This is a new post and follows a reconfiguration of the service to meet the emerging needs of the organisation. The successful candidate will work with an 8b clinical lead psychologist, TRiM practitioners, RMNs, psychotherapists and a research lead. The work is overseen by a consultant-grade psychologist and sits alongside our portfolio of successful Talking Therapies offerings in Norfolk & Waveney and Suffolk.
Main duties of the job
This role involves direct clinical care of staff experiencing a variety of mental health presentations, often following difficult incidents at work.
Duties of the role include:
* To provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service for people with mental health problems across NSFT.
* To work within professional guidelines and exercise shared responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the Service. To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
* To undertake specialised clinical work within the Service 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 clinical audit, policy and service development, research activity and other programmes within the Service.
This will require face to face working with individuals and therefore, while some hybrid working may be possible, it is not a remote working position.
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 also 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:
* NHS pension
* 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)
* staff physio service
* NHS discounts and many more.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* 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
Desirable
* Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
* Experience of working with a wide variety and severity of client groups & 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.
Desirable
* Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
* Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
Hellesdon Hospital
Drayton High Rd
Norwich
NR6 5BE
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