Educational Psychologist jobs in United States

Are you a skilled and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or a Psychological Therapist looking to work for an Early Intervention Service.

This role offers an exciting opportunity for a Band 7/8a Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to provide high-quality psychological therapy to patients under the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Early Intervention Service. Although advertised as an 8a role, Psychological Therapists and newly qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologists will be considered for a Band 7 role.

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 over the course of the year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

• 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)

• Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
• Experience of working with a wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems, in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.

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.

£47,810 to £62,682 a yeargross per annum (pro rata)