Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Wymondham; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as a Practitioner Psychologist in Wymondham, providing essential mental health services. Collaborate with various therapists to deliver high-quality care to adults in need. Enjoy a supportive environment with ongoing training opportunities and a commitment to professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience with a wide variety and severity of client groups.
• Experience delivering psychologically informed interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultation, assessment, formulation, and treatment to adults.
• Join group programmes including MBT and Emotional regulation.

Skills

Communication

EMDR

Education

Post-graduate degree in clinical psychology

Further CPD or qualifications in evidence based psychological therapy

Job description

We are looking for a creative, forward thinking and motivated Practitioner Psychologist to join our adult CMHT based in Gateway House, Wymondham. The successful application will join a team of psychological therapists including Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, Art Therapists, Clinical Associate Psychologists, DBT therapists and Assistant Psychologists that provide consultation, assessment, formulation and treatment for working adults requiring secondary care mental health input.

The psychology team works as part of our multidisciplinary adult community mental health team. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of this dedicated growing team who make a difference to patients, carers and the teams you will work with. The post covers the geographical area of South Norfolk.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will form part of the psychology team in the South Norfolk CMHT. As part of their role they will provide consultation, assessment, formulation and treatment to adults requiring secondary care mental health input. There will also be opportunities to join our group programme including MBT and Emotional regulation. The post holder will also be able to contribution to ongoing projects around service improvement, audit, research and evaluation. The psychology team has expertise in a range of therapies including CBT, CAT, EMDR, ACT, Psychodynamic, MDT and DBT. The post holder will be supported with opportunities to further develop their therapeutic competencies through training and CPD.

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?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!

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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)
• Further CPD or qualifications in evidence based psychological therapy

Experience

• Experience of working with a wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems either through previous roles of placements
• Experience of delivering psychologically informed interventions
• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).

Skills

• Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS.
• Training or further qualification in EMDR

Knowledge

• 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.

£53,755 to £60,504 a yeargross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working