8a Practitioner Psychologist / Psychotherapist

8a Practitioner Psychologist / Psychotherapist

This advert details an exciting career development opportunity for Clinical Psychologists or suitably trained and experienced Counselling Psychologists and Psychotherapists to join NSFT. As part of the NHS long-term plan Norfolk and Waveney have implemented a model of care and support based around integrated care and support delivered around primary care networks. This role is to link with the four primary care networks across the Great Yarmouth and Waveney locality and deliver psychological assessment, formulation and treatment to service users within the locality. The role will further require the successful applicant to provide consultation and supervision related to psychological approaches to staff working in the primary care network space. The successful applicant will work closely with both the adult CMHT and Talking Therapies in Great Yarmouth and Waveney.

Main duties of the job

The post will be located within the Primary Care Network in Great Yarmouth, working across the Great Yarmouth and Waveney locality. The role will predominantly involve working with the primary care network in Great Yarmouth and Waveney. The post holder will hold a number of responsibilities including:

• Providing a timely and considered evidence based psychologically informed response and treatment to clinically complex situation in primary care.
• To provide clarity for service users on their difficulties and what might be most helpful for them.
• To support the PCN-MHPs in their role with clinical issues
• To initiate thinking from service users and clinicians about consistent treatment pathways for the person's difficulties
• Develop links between the PCN and secondary MH care.
• Attending meetings that are within scope of the interface psychology team such as initial assessment meetings, interface and triage.

About us

The post-holder will be part of a network of other psychological professions working in primary and secondary care and will receive clinical supervision, professional and management supervision within the service line. Within the Great Yarmouth and Waveney psychology team we employ a diverse and supportive team of psychologists, including clinical psychologists, CBT, EMDR, CAT and DBT therapists, Systemic Therapists, Art Therapy, Clinical Associate Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists and we are able to offer our team members the opportunity to continue to develop their expertise via training and development opportunities in different parts of our service.

Job responsibilities

Specific tasks could include:

• Providing assessment, formulation and interventions for services users in the PCN space
• Working as part of an MDT to provide high quality assessment and intervention to service users
• Application of NICE recommended therapeutic interventions and the development of bespoke interventions for risk reduction and risk management as required
• Working with colleagues to develop the wider knowledge of the application of psychological approaches in the PCN space
• Consultancy to other professionals working in the PCN space
• Providing teaching and training to staff and external organisations (e.g., UEA)

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!

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Person Specification Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS (or due to finish within six months)
• Registered (or due to be eligible to be 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
• Completed some form of supervisor training

Experience

• 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 in an MDT and representing a psychological profession
• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
• Experience of supervision and teaching.

Skills

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS.

Knowledge

• Ability to identify, and employ as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to emotive behaviour.
• Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context.
• Knowledge of psychosocial interventions
• Published research in peer reviewed journal

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

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