Principal Psychologist or Psychotherapist / Clinical Lead

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.

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 DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

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Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Psychologist or Psychotherapist, with parent-infant experience, to lead our expanding and developing parent and infant relationship service, in Norfolk and Waveney.

You will play a key role in helping the service to deliver on our commissioned responsibilities and to oversee this new phase for the service. You will be supported to develop clinical leadership skills as well as working as part of a wider group of principal therapies leads in the Norfolk and Suffolk perinatal services group.

Main duties of the job

You will be managed and supported by an experienced perinatal Consultant Psychologist within the Service. You will work closely with the team manager to oversee the day to day running of the team.

PAIRS is part of a wider service group which also involves the Norfolk and Suffolk perinatal community mental health teams, the Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit and the Lotus Maternal Therapeutic Outreach Service.

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.

We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

We are able to support specialist training opportunities and research and QI opportunities are encouraged. We have a close relationship with the doctoral training course at the University of East Anglia and the team supports trainee placements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For an informal discussion or a visit to the team please contact Dr Melanie White, Associate Director of Psychology: [email protected] or Karen Horstead-Sayer, Clinical Team Manager [email protected]

Person specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
• urther postqualification, postgraduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)

Experience

• 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
• Application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• 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.

Skills

• Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS

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
• 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
• Creating and delivering presentations and training programmes in line with specialist knowledge.

Other

• 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
• Able to identify, and 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 (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.

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.