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    8b Practitioner Psychologist - Norwich, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

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    Job summary

    Practitioner Psychologist / Psychological therapist 8b - North East and North West Adult Community Mental Health Teams (1wte substantive)

    As part of this role, you'll provide line management, clinical and professional supervision to 8a psychologists, band 7 psychological therapists, psychology assistants and CAPS. You'll provide generic and specialist placements for trainee clinical psychologists. You'll provide clinical leadership to the Psychology team and to the two CMHTs we work with and help us continue our work to embed formulation-led care across our service. You'll be responsible for further developing and consolidating service provision and pathways within our service. In terms of clinical cases, you'll feel confident taking on our most complex cases for assessment, formulation, consultation and treatment. You'll be responsible for providing data around our service's activity levels, waiting times and outcomes.

    The North Psychology Team is based at the Peddars Centre, Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich. Therapists are based within friendly and supportive multidisciplinary teams, and offer specialist interventions including CBT, MBT, CAT, ACT, DBT, as well as EMDR. Options for group work include the Emotional Wellbeing group, ACT group and psychoeducational workshops. Psychology Services within the Trust have strong links with partners including UEA, and NSFT's Recovery College, in which they play an active role.

    Main duties of the job

    As the practitioner psychologist / psychological therapist, you will be a key player in developing psychologically informed ways of working and practice in the multi-disciplinary team.

  • to provide psychological assessment, formulation and a range of brief evidence based psychological interventions when appropriate targeting the needs of this population.
  • to develop and carry out appropriate psychological or psychologically informed training for staff involved in this project.
  • to be responsible for measuring outcomes of psychological or psychologically informed interventions.
  • to be a key player in supporting a co-produced vision of service development, enabling and empowering service users to have equal voice in shaping up psychological services.
  • We are committed to delivering equitable services and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. As a service we are keen to support our colleagues to develop roles that reflect their professional interests and meet their unique needs and would welcome a conversation around flexible working. The role would also allow a degree of remote working.

    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 nursing 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 description

    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

    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
  • Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
  • Further post-qualification, post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
  • Experience

    Essential

  • Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
  • Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training
  • Desirable

  • Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
  • Skills

    Essential

  • Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
  • Other

    Essential

  • Ability to travel across sites


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