8b Clinical/Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

NSFT Jobs; Norwich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health care provider in Norwich seeks a 0.6wte 8b Clinical/Counselling or Forensic Psychologist. In this role, you will provide clinical leadership, conduct assessments, and collaborate with a dedicated team to enhance patient care in a challenging yet rewarding environment. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and a supportive work atmosphere, ideal for experienced psychologists looking to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical settings with complex cases.
• Ability to provide supervision and line management.
• Strong understanding of evidence-based practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the inpatient pathway.
• Work closely with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Ensure adherence to evidence-based practice in treatment.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Psychological assessment

Team collaboration

Risk management

Evidence-based practice

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

8b Clinical/Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 0.6wte 8b clinical/counselling/forensic psychologist to provide clinical leadership to the male inpatient pathway at Hellesdon Hospital, which comprises of two wards and a total of 33 beds. You will be joining our well-established psychology team working across the largest acute service in NSFT that comprises of five inpatients wards, 3 of which are part of the new build, and a crisis resolution home treatment team; there is also likely to be one more ward opening by the end of this year.

Within the role you will be helping to provide psychological clinical leadership, regarding MDT decision making, risk management and reduction in restrictive interventions. You will work closely with our multi-disciplinary team colleagues, helping to inform and engage the teams in more psychological ways of thinking and formulating our service users. You will work alongside other psychology colleagues to aid smooth transition and coherent treatment/management plans for service users across the inpatient service line and back into wider community services.

You will provide supervision and line management to other members of the psychology team within the male pathway that includes a full time 8a clinical psychologist, B7 art therapist and assistant psychologist. This will include ensuring adherence to evidence base practice, outcome measures and audit data.

The work is challenging, fast paced and rewarding; our psychology team come with a range of specialist interests and therapy expertise and have strong links to the UEA doctorate course. There will be the opportunity for training and development as part of the role.

• Ensuring the provision of evidence based psychological assessment and treatment across the male inpatient wards.
• Providing specialist assessment and formulation of complex clients to help aid clinical decision making re diagnosis, management of risk and treatment pathways.
• Working closely with the wider MDT as well as community services involved, to provide clinical leadership in order to enhance psychological thinking and promotion of psychological formulation to facilitate optimal patient care and promote best practice guidelines.
• Working with families and carers where appropriate, particularly on complex cases where the system may feel quite 'stuck'.
• Provision of line management and clinical supervision to other clinicians within the inpatient psychology team.
• Working alongside the Associate Director of Psychology to help contribute to local and trust level service development and initiatives where appropriate.
  
  

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Jamie Durrance-Clarke Job title: Associate Director of Psychology Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07557744742

Feel free to email to arrange a phone call to chat through the role.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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