Clinical Psychologist - Band 8a/8b

Join a dynamic and supportive team at Walker Close!

We are seeking a temporary Clinical Psychologist to provide maternity cover within our Learning Disability and Autism Inpatient Assessment and Treatment Unit. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a specialist service that is committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care.

You'll be part of a friendly, motivated multidisciplinary team working collaboratively to support individuals with complex needs. The service is closely integrated with the Intensive Support Team, ensuring continuity of care across inpatient and community settings.

We offer a strong culture of professional development, with access to protected training time and opportunities to enhance your skills in areas such as Positive Behaviour Support (BILD) and Makaton. You'll also be involved in quality improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing patient experience and outcomes.

If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment, we'd love to hear from you.

This position is open to a newly qualified psychologist starting at band 7.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this role are to be part of an innovative, AHP led team delivering rehabilitation interventions in the community. There will be the opportunity for service development and evaluation. You will undertake psychological assessments, formulations and interventions as part of the MDT. There will also be an opportunity to develop group interventions and to design and deliver staff training both in-house and to other teams both within and outside of the Trust as appropriate.

This post would suit a qualified clinical psychologist with an interest in working with people with complex psychosis as well as an interest in service development. Newly qualified clinical psychologists are welcome to apply.

About us

Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust provide mental health and learning disability care for people across Norfolk and Suffolk. Supporting a population of just over 1.6 million people and employing more than 5,000 staff, we provide high quality care with compassion, delivering many of our services outside of hospital and in the community.

We are committed to continuous improvement and have bold hopes and ambitions for the future.

Our purpose is to be a provider of exceptional care and a trusted partner, working together with our communities to innovate for the mental health of everyone. Our values are that we are Fair (providing equal opportunity, recognise hard work and give power to people's voices); Compassionate (we are kind and inclusive with each other's wellbeing in our hearts) and Learning (we collaborate, we innovate, we are accountable for our promises).

We will not tolerate any form of discrimination and we resolve to tackle inequalities and prejudice that our people face, within our organisation and communities.

Details of our benefits and other important information are contained in the attached document.

For all substantive new staff who are appointed, there will be a 6-month probation period.

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs, the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual.

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!

Person Specification Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology or counselling, accredited by BPS
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapiest)

Experience

• Experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist (Band 7) and supervise trainee clinical psychologistable to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment

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.

Suffolk Rehabilitation and Recovery Service

Depending on experiencegross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

246-ESU

Job locations

Suffolk Rehabilitation and Recovery Service