Clinical Psychologist

4 weeks ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you:

Feeling passionate about improving the wellbeing and lives of people with eating disorders? Seeking to develop specialist skills to assess, formulate and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions for this client group? Interested in supporting and empowering the wider team?

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) Suffolk Community Adult Eating Disorders Service are looking for a suitably experienced Clinical Psychologist with a desire to develop their specialist skills in eating disorders.

We are passionate about service improvement and taking our clinical practice to a level of excellence - and we would like you to be part of this

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting new job role which will afford you the opportunity to offer specialist psychological input within a team, and help us enhance our clinical support and practice to the community that we serve. You will be a valued part of the multi-disciplinary team working within the county-wide Suffolk Adult Eating Disorders Service with bases in Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.

As the successful candidate you will be directly delivering a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and families, as well as providing psychological consultation to the wider care system, including acute hospital trusts and other secondary care mental health services. You will be supported to fulfil this specialist role through training and regular supervision by the Principal Clinical Psychologist. We are eager for you to play a key part in the transformation and development of our service.

You will be skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, and have the ability to communicate highly complex information in a sensitive and compassionate manner.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive. In addition to consolidating our NICE-recommended treatment offer, we also welcome innovative treatment approaches to delivering eating disorder care. We will support you to access relevant specialist training and contribute to treatment evaluation.

Recognising the value of our psychological workforce, you will be part of a psychology-led care group, which is currently offering a competitive recruitment incentive.

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. Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will have experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.

You will be skills in use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management and possess well developed communication skills. You will be working closely with the already established psychological workforce in the service, as well as the senior leadership teams.

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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Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses

Desirable

Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

Essential

Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist Experience of working with a wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems, in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.

Desirable

Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).

Skills

Essential

Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS

Knowledge

Essential

Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis. Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context.

Desirable

Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical settings and serviceuser groups.
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