Job summary
- Main area
- Psycology
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-CEN6994858
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 80 St Stephens Rd
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 Per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director of Psychology
Band 8c
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.
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
YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
We are delighted to advertise the role of a consultant psychologist to become the Associate Director of Psychology for the Central Norfolk Children and Young Persons Community Teams. The services in Central Norfolk provide specialist mental health interventions to young people up to 25 in the central Norfolk area, as well as providing specialist intervention to Looked After and Adopted Children across Norfolk and Waveney.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate consultant level experience in child and family services, as well as experience working across the age range and services that are being delivered.
This is an exciting time to join as the trust has just completed a restructure and has moved to delivering place-based services across locality areas, linked to other services, the central locality delivers services to those areas covered by the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. This role is a key role which has been created because of that restructure and the successful applicant will take a significant role in leading in further transformation plans.
The area includes a mix or urban communities as well as including the University of East Anglia and the Norwich University of the Arts, both of which bring large student communities into the area.
This position is a newly created substantive post as well a fulfilling the role of Associate Director of Psychology will be the lead Consultant Psychologist across the Central Norfolk CYP teams.
Main duties of the job
· Provide Professional leadership for all psychology staff in the Clinical Network.
· Provide professional advice on psychological practice and providing assurance on delivery of psychological approaches
· Develop psychological approaches and interventions and role sot support care delivery across the clinical network.
· Contribute to the supervision of staff in the service, including professional appraisal and identification of CPD needs across the service.
· Lead on policy development and implementation of psychological service provision within the clinical network.
· Working with the multi-professional’s leadership team to embed NSFTY shared culture and values.
· Undertake audit, teaching and research activities, and to promote research activity within the clinical network.
· To ensure that arrangements are in place for the for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the clinical network.
· Provide a specialist clinical service directly to clients and through provision of expert advice, consultancy and supervision to professional colleagues.
· To work closely with the director for psychology to ensure the development and governance aims of psychological services are met, within and across clinical networks and/or other functional departments of NSFT.
· Lead and participate in Trust wide initiatives and projects.
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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:
- 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 criteria
- Post graduate doctoral level training that confers HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist Pscyucologist
- Registration with the Health and Care professions Council as Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist for a significant period, including post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
- Substantial demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, within the content of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of providing consultation, supervision, and training to multidisciplinary staff.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS Experience of working collaboratively at asenior level with colleagues across professions, teams, providers, systems service users and communities.
- Substantial experience of involving service users and carers in the development and improvement of services.
- Experience of attracting and developing an excellent and motivated workforce.
- Experience of promoting equality and inclusion and reducing health and workforce inequalities.
- Experience of contributing to effective governance and risk management arrangements that ensures patient safety.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading change within a service or organisation.
- Experience of implementing clinical governance procedures.
- Experience of working as a Consultant Psychologist Experience of managing staff.
- Experience of delegated responsibility regarding the management of budgets.
- Experience of managing performance and grievance issues.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulations intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to produce reports and documents for Boards and Committees using relevant technology to present complex data and strategy with clarity.
- Well-developed and efficient communication skills, oral and written, to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists and/or other psychological professionals.
- Ability to inspire and engage staff and encourage improvement, innovation, and development.
- Ability to create compassionate, just, and positive team and organisational cultures.
- Ability to lead, motivate and influence both internally and externally, building and maintaining collaborative and trusted relationships.
Desirable criteria
- Skills and experience of using leadership models and the application of models of change at a service level.
- Experience of leading change within a service or organisation.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of applied psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology,and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Doctoral level (or equivalent) knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Neil Toplis
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07443 293730
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