Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; King's Lynn; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Counselling or Clinical Psychologist to join their team in King's Lynn. The role involves providing assessments, consultation, and therapy for service users, along with supervision and service evaluation responsibilities. The ideal candidate will have a relevant post-graduate degree, registration as a practitioner psychologist, and experience in a clinical setting. This permanent position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Comprehensive in-house and external training programmes

Career progression

Starting annual leave of 27 days

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist, Band 7.
• Evidence of CPD in specialized areas of psychological practice.
• Experience of representing psychology within MDT settings.

Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload of clinical work covering assessments and therapy.
• Supervise trainee psychologists and provide consultation.
• Work closely with wider MDT professions.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Training and supervision

Presentation skills

Education

Post-graduate degree in clinical psychology

Registered practitioner psychologist

Supervisor training

Job description

We are looking to recruit a Counselling or Clinical Psychologist to join our Adult CMHT based in Kings Lynn Covering West Norfolk with the possibility for a small amount of home working. The psychology and psychological therapies team in the CMHT has an exciting and vibrant skill mix including Clinical Psychology, CBT therapists, CAT therapists, Art therapists, DBT therapists, and CAPS.

The post holder would join this team and be responsible for providing assessment, consultation formulation, individual and group therapy for service users accessing the CMHT. There would also be responsibilities in relation to providing supervision and service evaluation. There are opportunities for the post holder to support further therapy training to fit the needs of the service. In recent years this has included CBT, DBT, CAT, MDT and EMDR.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will hold their own caseload of clinical work. This will cover assessment, consultation formulation, individual and group therapy for service users accessing the CMHT. They will be supervised by the 8B Clinical Psychologist and will have their own supervisory responsibilities for others in the team.

Psychology is well valued in the CMHT in West Norfolk and other duties will include working closely with the wider professions in the MDT. This successful applicant will have a job plan in line with BPS guidance which will incorporate time for CPD and learning as well as clinical duties. Please see the attached job description for further information.

About us

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.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive. In addition to consolidating our NICE-recommended treatment offer, we also welcome innovative treatment approaches to delivering eating disorder care. We will support you to access relevant specialist training and contribute to treatment evaluation.

Recognising the value of our psychological workforce, you will be part of a psychology-led care group, which is currently offering a competitive recruitment incentive.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more.

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!

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) or due to be accredited within next 12 months
• Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses
• Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

• Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
• Experience of working with a wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems, in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts)
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post

Skills

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Skills in training and supervision. Skills in creating and delivering presentations and training programmes
• Further qualification in a recognised psychological therapy

Knowledge

• Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
• Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context
• Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS
• Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical service-user groups

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.

£55,690 to £62,682 a yeargross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Job share,Home or remote working