Clinical Psychologist

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000

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

The Staff Support service is seeking an 8a applied psychologist to join a team of experienced professionals, delivering mental health support to people working at NSFT. This is a new post and follows a reconfiguration of the service to meet the emerging needs of the organisation. The successful candidate will work with an 8b clinical lead psychologist, TRiM practitioners, RMNs, psychotherapists and a research lead. The work is overseen by a consultant-grade psychologist and sits alongside our portfolio of successful Talking Therapies offerings in Norfolk & Waveney and Suffolk.

Main duties of the job

This role involves direct clinical care of staff experiencing a variety of mental health presentations, often following difficult incidents at work.

Duties of the role include:

• To provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service for people with mental health problems across NSFT.
• To work within professional guidelines and exercise shared responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the Service. To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• To undertake specialised clinical work within the Service which will include assessment, direct and indirect intervention, supervision, training and consultancy.
• To provide specialist knowledge and consultation to staff at all levels and contribute to their development.
• To utilise research and training skills and knowledge for clinical audit, policy and service development, research activity and other programmes within the Service.

This will require face to face working with individuals and therefore, while some hybrid working may be possible, it is not a remote working position.

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 also 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

Benefits included with this role are:

• 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.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate doctorate 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)
• Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

Essential criteria

• 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 working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.

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.

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.

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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

• Band 8a Clinical Psychologist JD 2024 (PDF, 376.4KB)
• Values Based Recruitment - Candidates Guide (PDF, 360.6KB)
• Reasonable Adjustments - NSFT (PDF, 197.5KB)