Clinical Psychologist

We are pleased to share an exciting opportunity to recruit to a band 8a Clinical Psychologist within our U14 CAMHS service at Mary Chapman House in Norwich. This is a full time maternity cover role. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinician to join us and help us continue to ensure that we provide an excellent service for children who are experiencing moderate to severe mental distress.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist psychological assessments for individuals, carers, and families using neuropsychological and psychometric tools, self report measures, rating scales, structured observations and interviews.
• Formulate and implement psychological treatment and management plans using appropriate conceptual frameworks.
• Deliver a range of psychological interventions to patients, carers, and families.
• Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options, considering therapeutic models, historical and developmental factors, and the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users.
• Ensure appropriate care plans and communicate with referral agents and other staff.
• Provide specialist psychological expertise to support the clinical team in delivering effective care, through advice, consultation, and dissemination of psychological theory and research.
• Conduct risk assessments and provide expert advice on psychological aspects of risk management.
• Communicate assessment findings, formulations and treatment plans in a skilled and sensitive manner.
• Monitor and evaluate progress of individuals on caseload and as a team.
• When supported by another senior clinician, offer psychological support to staff following critical incidents.

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

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Clinical provision of specialist clinical psychology assessment of individuals, carers and families referred to the Service, using and interpreting complex psychological data from a variety of sources, e.g. neuropsychological and psychometric assessments, self report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews, offense analysis. Formulation and implementation of formal psychological treatment and/or management plans, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service users' problems. Responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for patients and, where appropriate, carers and families. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans under the care of this post holder. To ensure appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis. To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise, knowledge, advice, guidance and consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the Service clinical team. To ensure that all members of the Service clinical team have access to psychologically based frameworks for the understanding and care of service users within the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory. To undertake risk assessment and management for individual service users and to provide specialist clinical psychology advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management. To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information regarding the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users. To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of uni and multi disciplinary care. To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise, knowledge and advice on staff support and critical incident stress management for staff within the Service following critical incidents. To also provide the same (where appropriate and as directed by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist) within NSFT and for external agencies. To discharge statutory social care functions as delegated under Section 75 agreement with Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils for Service Users and Carers on behalf of the organisation. To provide appropriate health and social care interventions according to service users recovery goals. To assess health and social care needs as part of an integrated team, and implement/commission packages of care where appropriate.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Post graduate degree or its equivalent in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
• Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses
• Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
• 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
• Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapy)

Experience

• Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
• 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 with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
• Experience of supervision and teaching.
• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post

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.
• Skills in neuropsychological assessment.

Knowledge

• Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
• Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context.
• Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS
• Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical service user groups.

Other

• Able to identify, provide and promote appropriate support strategies to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
• Ability to travel independently
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.

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.

£55,690 to £62,682 a year gross per annum