Job summary
Employer heading
8b Practitioner Psychologist /Psychological Therapist
Band 8b
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
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
Practitioner Psychologist / Psychological therapist 8b - North East and North West Adult Community Mental Health Teams (1wte substantive )
Discover an exceptional career opportunity as an 8b Practitioner Psychologist/ Psychological Therapist within the North Norfolk Psychology Team covering the North East and North West Community Mental Health Teams at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich.
This is a clinical leadership position in the psychology team and the wider multi-disciplinary teams. You’ll be responsible for further developing innovative clinical pathways, consolidating service provision and embedding formulation led care, shaping the future of our services.
As a pivotal member of our team, you will provide NICE concordant specialist psychological interventions for complex cases. Working in close collaboration with other psychologists and psychological professions that deliver CBT, MBT, CAT, DBT, EMDR and ACT. Support and supervision to the psychology team and trainees is a key part of this role, alongside ensuring governance in relation to service outcomes.
There will be opportunities for both clinical and leadership development, alongside support from psychology staff across the locality.
Psychology Services within the Trust have strong links with partners including UEA, and NSFT's Recovery College, in which they play an active role.
A Job share will be considered for this post.
Main duties of the job
As the practitioner psychologist / psychological therapist, you will be a key player in developing psychologically informed ways of working and practice in the multi-disciplinary team.
- to provide psychological assessment, formulation and a range of brief evidence based psychological interventions when appropriate targeting the needs of this population.
- to develop and carry out appropriate psychological or psychologically informed training for staff involved in this project.
- to be responsible for measuring outcomes of psychological or psychologically informed interventions.
- to be a key player in supporting a co-produced vision of service development, enabling and empowering service users to have equal voice in shaping up psychological services.
We are committed to delivering equitable services and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. As a service we are keen to support our colleagues to develop roles that reflect their professional interests and meet their unique needs and would welcome a conversation around flexible working. The role would also allow a degree of remote working.
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 nursing 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 find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- 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
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
- Further post-qualification, post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
- Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training
Desirable criteria
- Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- George Mak-Pearce
- Job title
- counselling psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 421 576
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