Principal Psychologist - Ipswich, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Description

Job summary

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity? Are you interested in the development of a PD CEN pathway? We are looking for someone who is committed to excellent practise and the principles of the Trust to take forward the psychology service within a CMHT and who can inspire, lead and implement change.

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) are looking for a lead psychologist to support the development of an effective treatment pathway across secondary care services in the Ipswich CMHT and leading the PD CEN pathway in East Suffolk. This is a new post which have been created in Ipswich as the result of a commitment to develop a specialist psychological service within the existing mental health provision.

You will be a valued member of staff within NSFT and have access to all the support and resources that this entails as well as becoming a key member of the Ipswich CMHT. You will have the opportunity to engage with your local community and make links with multiple stakeholders across the wider system. You will have close links with the other psychology services in East Suffolk and be line managed within this.

We promote our staff's professional development, including through supervision and training. Flexible working arrangements are possible.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome diversity in our team.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

This is a clinical leadership role, in which you will be supported to develop your potential. Through a visionary and dedicated approach, you will champion a culture based on principles of recovery, compassion, choice, and personalised care, providing a role model to the rest of the team. You will be committed to providing evidence-based practice and will be aware of current national models relating to mental health services in PD CEN care.

Working closely with the team leaders, you will help us develop and evaluate a PD CEN pathway within our mental health service across East Suffolk. You will offer supervision, training and reflective practice to staff within the Ipswich CMHT. You will also devote some time to direct clinical work including specialist psychological assessments, formulations, groups and individual therapy.

As a Trust we have strong academic links to the University of East Anglia. This role would offer the successful candidate good opportunities to forge research links and develop a programme of evaluation and research in primary care mental health.

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

Ensure the systematic provision of high quality specialist clinical psychology service input to clients of the relevant service.Supervise and support the psychological assessment, formulations and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and with other service providers both internal and external to the autonomously within professional guidelines and within overall strategic framework of NSFT. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service / team.Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.Contribute to the ongoing development of the service by prioritising and overseeing the ongoing work of projects that require specialist psychological skills and advice. To contribute more generally to organisational and service developments, staff training and support initiatives both within the service, NSFT and to other professional organisations.Provide teaching and training both internal and external to the responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review if all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on transfer of patients if the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within the team if AND RESPONSIBILITIESClinicalProvide comprehensive specialist clinical psychology assessment of complex clients within the service. This includes the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.Identify the nature, severity and complexity of service users mental health problems. To advise both service users and members of the team on the appropriate management of those problems, enabling referral to other services where on psychological formulations for clients to inform treatment and management plans.Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other colleagues on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management, including the risk of | 3 Generic 2016Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other colleagues contributing directly to a service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. This will be through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple or exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the efficiency of all aspects of the clinical psychology service provided.Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users. To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care.Discharge statutory social care functions as delegated under the Section 75 agreement with Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils for Service Users and Carers on behalf of the provide appropriate health and social care interventions according to service users recovery assess health and social care needs as part of an integrated team, and implement / commission packages of care where appropriate.Teaching & TrainingIn common with all clinical psychologists, to receive regular supervision in accordance with good practice part in regular internal continuing professional development and participate in CPD, which is linked to appraisal provide clinical supervision to assistant, graduate or other psychologists as agreed with the Consultant Clinical provide placements and clinical supervision for trainee clinical psychologists from the University of East Anglia or other universities, ensuring trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health provide teaching and training and contribute to the development of staff working within the service. To develop appropriate training programmes as appropriateManagement, Recruitment, Policy & Service DevelopmentPage | 4 Generic 2016Responsible for advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and / or organisational matters need addressing.Contribute to local policy and service development. To prioritise and manage those projects with a focus on psychological skills and the workloads of any attached assistant and / or graduate psychologists, within the framework of the team policies and exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resource in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of service users.Research & Service EvaluationUtilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in own work and working with others in the involved in appropriate research and provide specialist advice to other staff undertaking research.Participate in the development, evaluation and monitoring of the service through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and undertake personal research as a major job ResponsibilitiesTo use information communication technology and computers in day to day work in order to facilitate more effective communication and presentation of information. This includes, word-processing, e-mail communication, electronic care record systems, clinical information sharing, multi-media presentation and teaching.GeneralTo ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development maintain and promote high standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the Health Professions Council and Trust policies and maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to the specific patient group and mental health.

Qualifications

Essential

Experience

Essential

Knowledge

Essential