Clinical Psychologist

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

Job summary

A National Health Service provider in Kings Lynn is seeking a skilled Clinical Psychologist to join their Early Intervention Service. This role offers an opportunity to provide high-quality psychological therapy to patients experiencing psychosis. The successful candidate will work alongside a diverse team, offering supervision and engaging in service user collaboration. A commitment to ongoing training and adherence to professional standards is essential. This is a part-time position with a salary of £55,690 to £62,682 per annum gross, pro rata.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree (or equivalent) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS.
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist (Band 7).

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and interventions for individuals experiencing psychosis.
• Offer supervision to other team professionals.
• Support in co-produced service development with service users.

Skills

Skilled in complex methods of psychological assessment

Ability to travel independently

Education

Post-graduate degree in clinical psychology or counselling

Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the HCPC

Job description

Whilst advertised as Band 8a, we welcome applications from newly qualified candidates to commence at Band 7, with support to complete preceptorship requirements to progress to Band 8a.

Are you a skilled and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist looking to work for an Early Intervention Service.

This role offers an exciting opportunity for a band 8a Clinical Psychologist to provide high-quality psychological therapy to patients under the Kings Lynn Early Intervention in Psychosis Service.

The role will involve working alongside a diverse multi-professional team, providing a high quality specialist care. A variety of NICE recommended psychological interventions are offered within the team including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis and Behavioural Family Therapy. There will be an opportunity to receive training in Behavioural Family Therapy.

The Early Intervention Service strives to be dynamic and creative and is dedicated to providing a needs-led approach to improve the lives of people who have experienced or are experiencing psychosis. It is a service that shows compassion, kindness and hope at a time when individuals, families, and carers need it most.

Main duties of the job

The post is based at Chatterton House in Kings Lynn, working within the West Norfolk Locality.

Clinical: Provision of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for individuals who have experienced or are experiencing psychosis. To provide specialist psychologist/therapist expertise, knowledge, advice, guidance and consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care.

Supervision: Offer supervision to other professionals within the team as appropriate, fostering a culture of learning and excellence within the service.

Training & Development: Supporting and, where appropriate, implementing and delivering training to embed psychologically informed practices within the multidisciplinary team, supporting a stepped care model of psychological care.

Service User Engagement: Support in co-produced service development, empowering service users to actively shape psychological services through meaningful collaboration.

About us

Why work for 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.

Job responsibilities

Qualifications Essential

• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
• Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses
• Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
• 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
• Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapist)

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!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology or counselling, accredited by BPS
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)
• Core mental health professional training and registration
• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

• Experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist (Band 7) and supervise trainee clinical psychologistable to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment

Skills

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.

Knowledge

• Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis

Other

• 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.

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

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time,Job share,Flexible working,Home or remote working,Compressed hours