Personality Disorders

£3K Welcome Bonus or Relocation Bonus (T&C'S apply)

Principal Clinical Psychologist/Psychological Therapist PD Pathway Lead

This role is open to applied psychologists and psychological therapists with relevant qualification and training’

This is a great opportunity for a practitioner psychologist or psychological therapist to lead our adult community personality disorders pathway in Great Yarmouth and Waveney. We have several practitioners from diverse professional background who trained in dialectical behavioural therapy and have implemented DBT treatments across the community services. Our care group is committed to develop further a pathway that consistently delivers high quality services for people with personality disorders, with a strong focus on evidence-based, and needs typing based approaches.

The post holder will work under the supervision of a consultant practitioner psychologist in order to develop further, monitor, and deliver a pathway of evidence-based interventions for service users with a personality disorder.

The post holder will lead and supervise psychological professionals delivering psychological interventions for service users with personality disorders in the CMHTs and in the primary care network (PCN).

The post holder will deliver training to staff in CMHTs and PCN in order to develop awareness, formulation skills, and MDT interventions according to a stepped care approach.

The post holder will lead on rolling out training on needs typing and ensure that this approach is consistently used to deliver psychological care to service users with personality disorders.

The post holder will lead on the evaluation of personality disorders services across the CMHTs and PCN.

The post holder will provide individual and group psychological interventions for service users with personality disorders and complex mental health issues across the two CMHTs.

The post holder will provide clinical supervision to staff who are qualified and in training.

The post holder will be a key player in supporting a co-produced vision of services development, enabling and empowering service users to have equal voice in shaping up psychological services.

We have strong links with the local university both for teachings and for supervision of doctoral trainees. We welcome innovation and we are keen to support quality improvement and research projects.

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.

**This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment. Please note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only. Not applicable to newly qualified nurses**

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