8b Clinical/Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Norwich is seeking a Clinical/Counselling or Forensic Psychologist to provide clinical leadership within the inpatient pathway. The role includes supervising team members, promoting psychological best practices, and working closely with a multi-disciplinary team. Candidates should have a relevant post-graduate qualification and experience in an acute mental health setting. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional development are offered.

Benefits

Opportunities for training and development

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Post-Hopital Doctorate needed, specializing in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology.
• Experience in an inpatient setting and severe complex mental health difficulties.
• CPD training in supervision and clinical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead psychological clinical decision making for the inpatient pathway.
• Provide clinical leadership in MDT settings to improve patient care.
• Supervise and manage junior psychology team members.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Psychological assessment

Supervision of others

Complex client management

Education

Post-Graduate Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology

Post Graduate qualification in a specific psychological therapy (e.g., CAT, CBT, DBT)

Job description

8b Clinical/Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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.

Job 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!

We would be very pleased to talk to you about the post. For more information please contact Jamie Durrance, Associate Director of Psychology on 07557744742 or [e-mail]

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-Graduate Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology
• Post Graduate qualification or training in a specific psychological therapy e.g. CAT, CBT, DBT
• Evidence of CPD training in supervision of others
• Evidence of CPD training in clinical leadership
• Evidence of CPD training in a specialism relevant to the clinical role
• Relevant experience working in an inpatient setting (acute or forensic)
• Evidence of extensive experience working with adult service users presenting with severe and complex MH difficulties
• Extensive experience working as a qualified psychologist (ideally 4 yrs+)
• Experience of working in an acute adult MH setting such as inpatient, CRHT or Psychiatric Liaison
• Experience providing line management to junior colleagues within a team
• Experience supervising others including trainee clinical psychologists
• Evidence of well developed theory and practice of working with complex clients using a range of psychological therapies
• Evidence of providing training to other staff

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£64,455 to £74,896 a yearPer annum pro rata