Clinical Associate Psychologist - Norwich, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust

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Norwich, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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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 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

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Job overview:

There is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Clinical Associate Psychologist (CAP) to join the Central Norfolk Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHT) based at Hellesdon Hospital.

The team have had a trainee CAP for the last 18 months and so the role is now well established and valued within the diverse and experienced multi-disciplinary team.

You will work alongside a senior psychotherapist and under the umbrella of a wider, embedded acute psychology team that comprises of clinical psychologists, psychological therapists, and an art therapist.

Within the role you will have the opportunity to deliver assessments, formulations and psychological interventions to service users, as well as their carers and families.

Working as part of the MDT, you will be helping drive forward the recent initiative of utilising the 5Ps formulation within handovers to help understand and formulate a person's risks.

You will be involved in teaching and training for this and other psychological interventions to your CRHT colleagues, as well as promoting use of a range of psychological skills workbooks with the clients.

There is the opportunity to help develop and expand service-related research projects linked to these initiatives that feed into wider trust projects.

The post involves working with a wide range of client groups, ages and, mental health difficulties. We are a collaborative, committed and supportive psychology team with robust arrangements for supervision and support.

Main duties of the job:

Your role will entail:

Provision of individual psychological assessments and formulations that also help inform the wider teams' assessment and treatment plan.
Offering of brief evidenced based interventions, either as extension of assessment/formulation or, as a stand alone skills based focus.
Working alongside the qualified psychotherapist to identify suitable clients to go into the psychology assessment slots.
Working within the wider MDT to help formulate all client's that present to CRHT using 5Ps model to help inform risk management and treatment plans.
Act as a psychological resource, delivering training and informal supervision to members of the team, to help promote and upskills more psychological ways of working.
Communicate your work effectively in both verbal and written formats.
Work alongside interface services such as wellbeing to help client flow and appropriate treatment pathways upon discharge from CRHT.
Help design and contribute to servicerelated audit and research projects and collect relevant data linked to this.

Working for our organisation:

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.

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