8B Principal Clinical Psychologist Suffolk YJS
Are you an 8A Clinical Psychologist seeking progression? Or an existing 8B Clinical Psychologist ready for a new challenge? We would love for you to come and join us to support our local Youth Justice Service!
We're looking for a pro-active, passionate, and motivated 8B Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our local Youth Justice Service based within Suffolk County Council. This post offers the opportunity to work indirectly, supporting teams and practitioners within their direct work; and offers many opportunities to promote and enhance psychological knowledge, understanding, and practice. Please note this role will support the Youth Justice Teams based in both Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich.
If you have the drive to provide excellent care, can demonstrate high quality clinical and leadership skills and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to young people's lives then we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
1. Providing clinical supervision to YJS practitioners, and staff involved in working with young people displaying Harmful Sexual Behaviour.
2. Providing consultation to YJS practitioners to indirectly support the delivery of interventions.
3. Facilitating psychologically informed case formulations with CYP's professional networks.
4. Providing a key role in supporting continuous staff development through bespoke training and support as identified, to help upskill the teams in assessment, formulation and intervention delivery.
5. Working in conjunction with operational managers to support consistency with practice.
6. Providing a key role in team containment, working with professional systems, having difficult conversations, managing team emotions, thinking clinically and systemically simultaneously.
7. Providing and contributing significantly to the psychologically-informed practice of the team with a focus on quality, efficacy and increasing improvement.
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
Please see attached letter for a full description of the service and also please find attached the job description which outlines the key responsibilities and requirements of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
* 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
* Relevant experience in service area
* Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
* Teaching, training and delivering clinical supervision
* Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge
* Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts)
Skills
* 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
* Production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in medicolegal setting
Knowledge
* Well-developed knowledge of the Application Form / Interview / theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
* Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
* Legislation and its implication for clinical practice and the appropriate management of people presenting with mental health problems
Other
* Commitment to continuing professional development, to partnership working and to reflective clinical practice
* Capacity to exercise careful clinical judgement whilst having the ability to work with and to hold the stress of others in the work setting
* Employ appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
* Ability to travel independently
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.
£62,215 to £72,293 a year Gross per annum
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