8B Principal Clinical Psychologist Suffolk

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Stowmarket; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

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 Overview

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 provide clinical leadership across our East and Central Suffolk Young Adult Mental Health Services!

We're looking for a pro-active, passionate, and motivated 8B Principal Clinical Psychologist. As one of the few trusts in the country with a dedicated service line recognising the unique needs and challenges faced by those in the 18 - 25 year old age range, we pride ourselves on our developmentally informed secondary mental health service. This post offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership across both the East (Ipswich) and Central (Stowmarket) services, promoting and enhancing psychological knowledge and understanding, and upholding the highest standards of clinical governance.

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. In return, we are keen to offer opportunities for further learning and development, and would particularly welcome an application if you are interested in completing full DBT training.

Main Duties of the Job

1. Providing consultation to indirectly support the delivery of treatment by others.
2. Providing clinical supervision to experienced psychologists and other professionals.
3. Progressing staff development in the team, informing and being informed by, wider strategy.
4. Collaborative and shared leadership of the team with the Clinical Team Manager and Consultant Psychiatrist.
5. Establishing and leading on psychologically safe and informed environment for teams and staff through positive leadership values and behaviours, including: integrity, respect, compassion and curiosity.
6. Providing a key role in team containment, working with professional systems, having difficult conversations, managing team emotions, thinking clinically and systemically simultaneously.
7. Running, contributing to or supporting service development projects in liaison with the Consultant Psychologist or other staff from the Senior Leadership Team.
8. Providing and contributing significantly to the psychological practice of the team with a focus on quality, efficacy and increasing improvement.
9. Working alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologists for CYP services across Suffolk and Norfolk in developing clinical pathway intervention packages.

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 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

Essential Criteria

• 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).

Desirable Criteria

• Evidence of CPD 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.
• 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.

Desirable Criteria

• Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge.
• Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).

Skills

Essential Criteria

• Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology.

Desirable Criteria

• Production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in medicolegal setting.

Knowledge

Essential Criteria

• 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

Essential Criteria

• 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.

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

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.

Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges

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

• Clinical Psychologist JD (PDF, 376.4KB)
• Recruitment Letter (PDF, 496.6KB)
• Values Based Recruitment - Candidates Guide (PDF, 360.6KB)
• Reasonable Adjustments - NSFT (PDF, 197.5KB)