Psychological Therapist

jobs24.co.uk; Stowmarket; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative service in Suffolk is seeking a passionate Psychological Therapist to enhance mental health support for children and young people. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of new mental health services, ensuring timely access to care. You will work closely with a dedicated team, providing clinical supervision and delivering evidence-based interventions. Join a supportive and creative environment where your contributions will make a real difference in the lives of young individuals. This is a chance to be part of a transformative initiative in mental health services, making a lasting impact in the community.

Benefits

NHS pension

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression

27 days annual leave

Staff physio service

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering mental health services to children and young people.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision and evidence-based interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality mental health support to children and young people.
• Oversee clinical supervision and implement school-wide mental health approaches.

Skills

Clinical Skills

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Supervision Skills

Intervention Strategies

Education

Degree in Psychology

Nursing Qualification

Social Work Qualification

Occupational Therapy Qualification

Job description

Do you have the ambition, creativity and clinical skills to contribute to the development of new mental health services for children and young people? With the National conversation increasingly focused on young people's mental health, this is the time to be at the forefront of the development of these services. We are excited to be recruiting a Psychological Therapist to work in our innovative service in Suffolk: the Mental Health Support Team (MHST). MHSTs are based within education settings, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support. You will provide clinical supervision and expertise to the team. You will work closely with the Clinical Team Manager and Clinical Lead in the team to support the clinical delivery of the service.

This role will be based with our Central Suffolk MHST, which covers schools in Stowmarket, Stowupland, Hadleigh, East Bergholt and the surrounding area.

We encourage applicants from varied backgrounds, including nursing, social work, occupational therapy, and psychology.

Main Duties of the Job

In this role, you will be responsible for providing a high-quality service to children and young people (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, through early intervention and offering the right support at the right time. You will work across a range of education settings.

You will be responsible for overseeing and delivering clinical supervision of the team. You will use your clinical skills and experience for direct delivery of evidence-based interventions to support children and young people referred to the service. You will need to utilize skills and knowledge of CBT and child and adolescent mental health practice. You will also implement whole school approaches to mental health through collaboration and coproduction with the school community.

Working for Our Organisation

A job in the Suffolk MHSTs will inevitably be challenging and demanding at times, but it will also be immensely rewarding and provide you with great opportunities to make a genuine difference to the lives of others. You will join a service that has developed a caring, creative and hard-working environment; your ideas about how this new service continues to develop and grow will be highly valued.

This is an exciting time of Transformation of mental health services in Suffolk, which MHSTs are at the forefront of. These changes are driven by the needs of local communities, with the aim of embedding mental health services within the community and truly bringing the expertise to where it is needed. NSFT, in collaboration with the Suffolk alliance partners, are striving to deliver services within the Thrive framework.

We would welcome any informal conversations about these roles. Please do contact us for more information.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK

For posts with direct service user contact - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures - these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so. The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.

About Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk. At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience. We are committed to delivering quality-driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we'd love you to join us!

Some of the Benefits You Can Expect:

• NHS pension
• 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)
• Staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.