Band 8b Principal Clinical Psychologist

The Methodist Church in Britain; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression

Starting annual leave 27 days rising 3

Staff physiotherapy service

NHS discounts

Job summary

The Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust invites applications for a Band 8b Principal Clinical Psychologist within a new Intensive and Assertive Team serving people with psychosis and complex needs across the trust. The role centers on specialist assessment, including neuropsychological testing, and collaboration with multidisciplinary and multiagency partners.

You will supervise colleagues, lead service improvement and engage with families, carers and others to promote wellbeing and

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral training in clinical psychology or equivalent.
• Eligibility for BPS chartered status.
• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.

Responsibilities

• Specialist assessment and formulation of the most complex cases, including neuropsychological assessment.
• Multidisciplinary and multiagency consultation.
• Supervision, consultation, reflective practice and post-event reflections for team members.
• Leading service improvement, quality improvement and service evaluation projects.
• Engaging with families, carers and stakeholders to promote wellbeing and safety.
• Travel across the trust area as needed.

Skills

Complex psychological assessment

Risk assessment and management

Communication with clients and carers

Supervision of colleagues

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Doctoral training in Clinical Psychology

Job description

A Band 8b Principal Clinical Psychologist post in a new Intensive and Assertive Team at Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust, serving people with psychosis and complex needs across the trust's region. The work centres on specialist assessment of the most complex cases, including neuropsychological assessment, alongside consultation with multidisciplinary and multiagency partners, supervision of colleagues and leading service improvement. The team works with people who present high and complex risks and engage poorly with services, and the role involves travel across the trust. Fit depends on doctoral clinical psychology training and HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.

What the job involves

• Specialist assessment and formulation of the most complex cases, including neuropsychological assessment
• Multidisciplinary and multiagency consultation
• Supporting other multidisciplinary team members through supervision, consultation, reflective practice and post-event reflections
• Contributing to the team's working model and system pathways in line with NICE and national assertive and intensive community treatment guidance
• Leading service improvement, quality improvement and service evaluation projects
• Engaging with family, carers and stakeholders such as the voluntary sector and police to promote service users' wellbeing and safety
• Travelling across the trust area as need arises

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral training in clinical psychology or equivalent, with eligibility for BPS chartered status
• Further post-qualification training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice

Registration & licences

• Registration as a practitioner psychologist with the HCPC

Experience

• Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment across a wide range of mental health problems and severity
• Extensive experience as a qualified clinical psychologist, with specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training
• Work with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems, staying professional with highly emotive and distressing cases

Skills & knowledge

• Complex psychological assessment, intervention and management methods
• Assessing, evaluating and managing risk linked to mental ill health
• Communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to clients, families, carers and colleagues inside and outside the NHS
• Theory and practice of specialised therapies for difficult-to-treat groups, such as personality disorder, dual diagnosis and additional disabilities
• Practitioner-level knowledge of at least two psychological therapy models
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice

Other

• Commitment to continuing professional development, partnership working and reflective clinical practice
• Ability to identify and apply clinical governance mechanisms to support and maintain clinical practice
• Ability to travel independently
• Completion of physical intervention training and maintaining it as required by the role

Nice to have

• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Experience in community services for adults with serious mental illness, including clinical work with people who are hard to engage
• Representing psychology within multidisciplinary settings, clinical and organisational
• Training in CBT for psychosis or another relevant therapy model
• Producing reports suitable for public presentation and medico-legal settings
• High-level knowledge of assessing and evaluating psychological therapies
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Experience of providing specific support interventions and strategy for staff

What’s offered

• NHS pension
• Comprehensive in-house and external training programmes
• Career progression
• Starting annual leave of 27 days, rising to 33 days based on length of service, plus paid bank holidays
• Staff physiotherapy service
• NHS discounts