8a Practitioner Psychologist

2 days ago


Great Yarmouth NR BU, United Kingdom Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time

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.

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 difficulty
  • Develop links between the PCN and secondary MH care.
  • Attending meetings that are within scope of the in the interface psychology team such as initial assessment meetings, interface and triage.

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.

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

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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