Assistant Clinical Psychologist

3 days ago


Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to join the multidisciplinary team providing services under supervision to our inpatient secure service for women, based in Norwich.

Our inpatient secure services form part of a wide and growing body of clinical services operating in a variety of settings linked to criminal justice services. NSFT Secure Services offer low and medium secure mental health services for men, an innovative integrated secure mental health service for women, mental health and personality disorder services in the local prisons, community forensic services, criminal justice liaison and diversion services and Offender Personality Disorder services in partnership with probation services.

In this role, the post-holder will work alongside a Clinical Psychologist on a 16-bedded admission, assessment and rehabilitation secure ward for women at Hellesdon Hospital. The post-holder will work under the umbrella of the wider, well-established NSFT Secure Services Psychology Team. Within this role, you will have the opportunity to help deliver risk assessments, mental health assessments and supervised psychological interventions to service users, as well as co-facilitating therapeutic group work. As part of the MDT, you will be working with the ward team to help create and implement positive behaviour support plans, and to support the ward team with psychological formulations and psychologically informed practice.

The post involves working with a range of mental health difficulties, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis, personality disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders. There will also be the opportunity to learn about offence specific assessments, formulations and interventions which are delivered by the team.

As a part of the wider NSFT Secure Services Psychology Team, the post-holder will receive regular clinical and management supervision, and also professional and governance support from within the team. Within NSFT Secure Services we employ a diverse and supportive team of psychologists, including clinical, counselling and forensic psychologists, and we are able offer our team members the opportunity to continue to develop their expertise via training and development opportunities in different parts of our service. We have an exceptional track record for supporting our Assistant Psychologists into further professional training, and have excellent links with the University of East Anglia.

**Benefits**:
**Benefits included with this role are**:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.

CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.

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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