Psychological Therapist

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

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
An opportunity has arisen for a psychotherapist to join the Youth Team in Great Yarmouth and Waveney. This is an innovative service working with young people aged 14-25 and their families. We are a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team and are passionate about working together to offer formulation driven and psychologically informed care to the young people who we support.

The role will involve working with young people with a range of complex presenting problems and their families and will include direct therapeutic work, as well as working with the team to provide psychological thinking around cases. Regular supervision will be available from within the team.

As a whole team we are keen to continue developing and to ensure that we are offering the best possible service to the young people we work with, in terms of the way the service functions and the types of interventions available.

**Main duties of the job**:
Contribute to the provision of the Psychological Therapy Services within NSFT
Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, carrying a caseload of clients
Receive regular supervision in line with the Trust Policies and responsible for management of
own caseload and ensuring high standards of care are maintained in line with Trust policies
and professional codes of practice
Supervision and consultancy to other mental health professionals and involved in the
development of Psychological Therapy provision within the locality as appropriate
Accountable for accurate mental health clustering of all patients in caseload on admission,
discharge and at review meetings.
Ensure all mental health clustering information is passed onto other Trust teams or services on
transfer of patients.
Responsible for maintaining the accuracy and quality of mental health clustering activity within
the team

**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.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Provide a professional assessment and treatment service to clients referred
Accountable, under supervision, for own clinical actions as a provider of a specialist
psychological intervention
Respond to referrals in a timely, professional manner
Maintain timely, accurate and evidence based records of treatments and interventions in
accordance with Trust and professional standards
Maintain and develop collaborative and evidence based psychological treatment programmes.
styles and methods of communication to meeting therapeutic needs
Maintain good communication links with colleagues to ensure optimum care of clients
Maintain an awareness of resources available to enhance opportunities for clients in
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