8B Principal Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

NHS; Norwich; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an experienced Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Community Mental Health Teams in Norwich. This role involves providing clinical leadership, supervising staff, and promoting evidence-based practices. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and substantial experience in psychology. The position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Ongoing training and development

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment experience.
• Experience of working with diverse client groups in mental health.
• Teaching and clinical supervision experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultation for evidence-based interventions.
• Deliver clinical supervision to psychologists and professionals.
• Lead team development and maintain a positive clinical environment.

Skills

Assessment, evaluation and management of risk

Production of reports for presentation

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC

Job description

8B Principal Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

Are you an 8A Clinical Psychologist seeking progression? Or an existing 8B Clinical Psychologist ready for a new challenge? We would love for you to come and join us to provide clinical leadership in our adult Community Mental Health Teams in Norwich!

We are looking for a pro-active, passionate, and motivated 8B Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. The teams offer multi-disciplinary mental health care to adults over the age of 25, and we take pride in supporting our services work in psychologically informed ways. This post offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership in our services, promoting and enhancing psychological knowledge and understanding, and upholding the highest standards of clinical governance.

If you have the drive to provide excellent care, can demonstrate high quality clinical and leadership skills and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to people's lives then we would love to hear from you. In return, we are keen to offer opportunities for further learning and development. You will work alongside a supportive and passionate team of psychological professions, and be part of a wider network of support across the locality.

Main duties of the job

Providing consultation to indirectly support the delivery of evidence based and psychologically informed interventions by others.

Providing clinical supervision to experienced psychologists and other professionals.

Progressing staff development in the team, informing and being informed by, wider strategy.

Collaborative and shared leadership of the team with other 8b psychologists, Matron, Clinical Team Manager and Consultant Psychiatrist.

Establishing and leading on psychologically safe and informed environment for teams and staff through positive leadership values and behaviours, including: integrity, respect, compassion and curiosity.

Providing a key role in team containment, working with professional systems, having difficult conversations, managing team emotions, thinking clinically and systemically simultaneously.

Running, contributing to or supporting service development projects in liaison with the Consultant Psychologist or other staff from the Senior Leadership Team.

Providing and contributing significantly to the psychological practice of the team with a focus on quality, efficacy and increasing improvement.

Working alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologists for Adult Community Services services and across Suffolk and Norfolk in developing clinical pathway intervention packages.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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

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
• 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
• Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge
• Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts)

Skills

• Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology
• Production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in medicolegal setting

Knowledge

• Well-developed knowledge of the Application Form / Interview / theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
• 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

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 settingEmploy appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
• Ability to travel independently

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 yeargross per annum