Clinical Psychologist

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 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, 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

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JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:

- We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Psychologist who is looking for a new opportunity and challenge to lead on the development of psychological services and to provide psychological input for older people._
- The services are located in the Waveney area and consist of a CMHT, Dementia Intensive Support Team and Memory Treatment Service. In addition, this role will provide psychological input to the inpatient ward at Carlton Court hospital._
- Our care group is very committed in developing high quality services and the community teams for older people across the trust have been rated as good by the CQC. We welcome opportunities for innovation, quality improvement, research and training, and we have strong links with the local doctoral course in clinical psychology at UEA. The care group is also keen to embed evidence-based practice within services and the successful applicant will have access to further training in CLEAR Dementia Care._
- This post will be supported by the care group lead consultant applied psychologist, the consultant applied psychologist, and the clinical director. The post holder will have the opportunity to work alongside another Clinical Psychologist, a Clinical Associate Psychologist and Assistant Psychologist across the care group and there is a well-established network of later life psychologists in the Trust and a Trustwide Older People’s forum._

**Main duties of the job**:

- In addition to the duties that can be found in the job description attached, the post holder will have an interest and show ability or potential for leading the development of psychological services._
- The post holder will work with the lead consultant applied psychologist and the consultant applied psychologist to make the psychological care for older people in Waveney excellent and in line with the aspirations of national agendas such as the Long Term Plan._
- The post holder will lead in supporting and embedding psychological thinking in teams and develop a reflective culture._
- The post holder will provide a wide range of psychological interventions such as specialist assessments, formulations, interventions, training for staff, reflective practice, and will be pivotal to develop psychologically informed teamwork and environments._

**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 their experiences and learning from each other.

**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
- Relocation packages.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Reasonable confidence and competence in using IT systems (e.g. Outlook, Word, clinical or other record systems) relevant to the role.
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS

**Desirable criteria**:

- Production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in medicolegal setting
- High level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of psycho