Clinical Psychologist – 8a (Band 7 welcome)

NSFT Jobs; Norwich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist in a leading Mental Health Care organization, focusing on providing trauma-informed support for children in care and adopted children. This full-time position offers a chance to make significant contributions to the mental health of young people while working within a collaborative team focused on integrity and compassion.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and families.
• Expertise in trauma-informed care.
• Ability to use psychometrics and provide therapeutic support.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments and formulating interventions.
• Manage a clinical caseload within a multidisciplinary team.
• Supervise trainees and existing clinicians.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Evidence-based therapy

Risk assessment

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Clinical Psychologist – 8a (Band 7 welcome)

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Hello, my name is James and I am the Team Manager of the Child, Family and Young People Service for Looked After and Adopted Children (CYFP LAAC).

We are pleased to share an exciting opportunity to recruit to a band 8a Clinical Psychologist within our LAAC Mental Health Team in Norfolk and Waveney. We would also welcome Preceptorship applications at a Band 7. This is full time substantive role. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinician to join us and help us continue to ensure that we provide an excellent service for children who are in care, adopted or under SGO, and their carers and families.

What We Do

The LAAC team is a specialist service offering timely trauma informed mental health assessment and longer-term evidence-based therapy for children in care and adopted children where there are specific concerns around mental health.

We are in the process of developing our pathways model for the LAAC team. This pathway will sit closely alongside our CORE teams. The overarching therapeutic approach is based on a trauma informed dyadic or systemic clinical model. Some of the individual therapies used by the team include DDP, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Trauma and Attachment focussed Therapy, VIG, Trauma focused therapies including EMDR and TF-CBT, Play Therapy, Systemic Approaches and Mentalization Based Therapies. There will be opportunities for applicants to train in DDP.

To be part of an established team, and to support the delivery of exceptional trauma informed therapeutic support to children in care or adopted between the ages of 0-18 who are experiencing mental health difficulties in the context of their early childhood experiences.

• Undertaking comprehensive assessments of complex young people and their systems, developing meaningful formulations, and making highly skilled decisions which guide ongoing intervention options.
• Providing evidence-based interventions and treatment for children in care with a wide range of mental health presentations.
• To manage a clinical caseload as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT).
• To undertake and contribute to complex risk assessment of complex cases within the team and to support the professional systems around the child or young person to address and positively manage risk.
• To confidently use psychometrics or other testing to assess and formulate cases.
• To contribute to the development of a response and effective therapeutic service within the team.
• To contribute to service development and projects within the team.
• An opportunity to supervise trainees on placement within the team and supervise existing clinicians within the team.
• To travel independently across Norfolk, each Clinician is allocated a specific locality to travel to (either, East, West or Central).
  
  

It is important to us that all staff share our values and core beliefs, and those of the NHS Constitution. We promote an environment of mutual respect, compassion, integrity and collaborative working. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and aim to attract and retain a candidate who is compassionate and committed to our trust values of working positively, respectfully, and together.

We are an improving Trust, with ambitious aspirations and we are making significant contributions to exciting transformation work that seeks to promote a shared responsibility for mental health of young people across various community health and social care services, education and the voluntary sector. We are keen to develop clinical leadership further, and would encourage your involvement in this.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: James Moss Job title: Community Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07500 095160

About

Please get in touch with James Moss (Community Team Manager) or Dr Cheontell Barnes (Principle Clinical Psychologist) if you wish to find out more about the role:

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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