8b Principal Clinical Psychologist - Emotional Wellbeing Hub

Employer Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Endeavour House

Town Ipswich

Salary £62,215 - £72,293 gross per annum (pro rata)

Salary period Yearly

Closing 10/04/2025 23:59

Interview date 17/04/2025

8b Principal Clinical Psychologist - Emotional Wellbeing Hub

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 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 support our Emotional Wellbeing Hub!

We’re looking for a driven, passionate, and motivated 8b Principal Clinical Psychologist to provide clinical leadership within our Emotional Wellbeing Hub. This post offers the opportunity to promote and enhance psychological knowledge, understanding, and practice; and shape the future delivery of the service. If you are interested in an opportunity to work indirectly and systemically to support and develop teams and systems, you may be ideally suited to this role!

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

Working as part of the service triumvirate, providing clinical leadership, to support the overall safe, effective and responsive running of the service.

• To provide clinical leadership ensuring the clinical activities of the EWH are safe, appropriate, and effective within the organisational governance framework.
• Providing consultation to indirectly support the work of EWH practitioners.
• Providing clinical supervision.
• Progressing staff development in the team, informing and being informed by, wider strategy.
• Collaborative and shared leadership of the team with the Clinical Team Manager and Service Manager.
• Establishing and leading on a psychologically safe and informed environment for teams and staff through positive leadership values and behaviours, including: integrity, respect, compassion and curiosity.
• Providing a key role in team containment, working with professional systems, having difficult conversations, managing team emotions, thinking clinically and systemically simultaneously.
• Running, contributing to or supporting service development projects in liaison with the Consultant Psychologist or other staff from the Senior Leadership Team.
• Providing and contributing significantly to the psychologically informed assessment, formulation and practice of the team with a focus on quality, efficacy and increasing improvement.

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 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:

• 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)
• 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.

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).
• Further post qualification, postgraduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• 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.
• 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.
• Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge.

Knowledge

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.).
• Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy.
• Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

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 (formerly CRB)
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.

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Dr Kate Budge

Job title Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Email address Katie.budge@nsft.nhs.uk

Telephone number 07795062324

Additional information

Mike Lyness (Service Manager) Mike.Lyness@nsft.nhs.uk