Practitioner Psychologist

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Registered Psychologist to join their multidisciplinary team aimed at delivering psychological services to the community. The successful candidate will have a strong background in clinical psychology and be committed to service development. This role offers excellent training and development opportunities in a supportive environment. Working in beautiful Norfolk and Suffolk, you will make significant contributions to community mental health while enjoying a welcoming atmosphere and strong professional networks.

Qualifications

• Ability to travel independently.
• Experience providing specific support interventions.

Responsibilities

• Join the multidisciplinary team providing services to individuals in the community.
• Deliver psychological assessment and treatment services.
• Receive clinical supervision and support.

Skills

Complex methods of psychological assessment

Effective communication skills

Consultation skills to professional and non-professional groups

Education

Post-graduate degree in clinical psychology

Registered as a practitioner psychologist with HCPC

Job description

NSFT Secure Mental Health Services have been consistently rated "Good" by the CQC and are looking for a Registered Psychologistwho will join us on our journey to "Outstanding". Our Community secure services form part of a wide and growing body of clinical services operating in a variety of settings linked to criminal justice services. NSFT Secure Services offer low and medium secure mental health services for men, an innovative integrated secure mental health service for women, mental health services in the local prisons, community forensic services, criminal justice liaison and diversion services and Offender Personality Disorder services in partnership with probation services.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist or suitably trained and experienced Counselling or Forensic Psychologist to join the multidisciplinary team providing services to individuals living in the community across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are looking for a psychologist who is committed to multidisciplinary working, has an interest in service development and who will support colleagues in developing their psychological knowledge and skills in addition to delivering a psychological assessment and treatment service to the users of the service.

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 and Suffolk? 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

This is a fixed term post for 12 months. The post-holder will be part of the wider NSFT Secure Services Psychology Team and would receive clinical supervision, professional and governance support from within the team. Within NSFT Secure Services we employ a diverse and supportive team of psychologists, including clinical, counselling and forensic psychologists, and we are able offer our team members the opportunity to continue to develop their expertise via training and development opportunities in different parts of our service.

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, accredited by BPS
• 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

Other

• Ability to travel independently
• Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.

Experience

• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment
• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).

Skills

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS.
• Skills in consultation to professional and non - professional 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