Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Norwich; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000

Job description

NSFT Secure Mental Health Services have been consistently rated "Good" by the CQC and are looking for a part-time Registered Psychologist who will join us on our journey to "Outstanding". Our Community secure services form part of a wide and growing body of clinical services operating in a variety of settings linked to criminal justice services. NSFT Secure Services offer low and medium secure mental health services for men, an innovative integrated secure mental health service for women, mental health services in the local prisons, community forensic services, criminal justice liaison and diversion services and Offender Personality Disorder services in partnership with probation services.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist or suitably trained and experienced Counselling or Forensic Psychologist to join the multidisciplinary team providing services to individuals living in the community across Norfolk. Because this is a part time post the successful candidate will work alongside the current Clinical Psychologist working in the team and a full time Assistant Psychologist.

We are looking for a psychologist who is committed to multidisciplinary working, has an interest in service development and who will support colleagues in developing their psychological knowledge and skills in addition to delivering a psychological assessment and treatment service to the users of the service.

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.

Job responsibilities

The post-holders will be part of the wider NSFT Secure Services Psychology Team and would receive clinical supervision, professional and governance support from within the team. Within NSFT Secure Services we employ a diverse and supportive team of psychologists, including clinical, counselling and forensic psychologists, and we are able offer our team members the opportunity to continue to develop their expertise via training and development opportunities in different parts of our service. We are able to offer this post at a range of different bandings. The banding offered will reflect the experience of successful candidate, and we will tailor the support and development package offered as appropriate to the individual's needs, for example this could include training in specific therapy approaches such as EMDR or DBT.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate 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).

Experience

• 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 supervision and teaching.
• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).

Skills

• Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS.

Knowledge

• Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical service-user groups.

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.

£53,755 to £60,504 a year gross per annum pro rata.