NHS - 8A Clinical Psychologist - East Suffolk CAMHS
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
Are you a B7 Clinical Psychologist seeking progression? Or an existing 8A Clinical Psychologist ready for a new challenge? We would love for you to come and join us in Suffolk Specialist CAMHS!
We’re looking for a pro-active, passionate, and motivated 8A Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join our East Suffolk Specialist CAMHS team, based in Ipswich. Our service provides highly specialist mental health treatment for children and young people up to the age of 18 years old.
If you have the drive to provide excellent care, can demonstrate high quality clinical 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.
Please see the attached recruitment letter for further information.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting time to be joining the Suffolk CFYP care group as we are developing how we deliver psychological approaches within Primary Care Networks, more specialist secondary teams, across the Crisis Pathways including alternative to admission approaches and the creation of dynamic tier 4 responses and interventions.The new service model integrates services within community hubs and community services, sharing expertise across the systems.
We welcome applicants who are committed to helping develop new ways of working, applying evidence based and innovative approaches. To assist us with this development we need psychologists to assist in delivering outstanding treatment to our young people and families in need.We are striving to develop our care model to be more aligned with the needs of the local communities. These changes are responding to the changing needs of local communities, with the aim of embedding mental health services within the community and truly bringing the expertise to where it is needed.
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:
- 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.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
- 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 representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
Skills
Essential criteria- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Skills in consultation to professional and non - professional groups.
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS
- Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical settings and serviceuser groups
Other
Essential criteria- 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 (formerly CRB)
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