Clinical Associate Psychologist

1 month ago


Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

We have a post available for a qualified Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP) to join our CMHT for adults with mental health difficulties .

You will work closely with the existing psychology team (including 2 clinical psychologists, another CAP, a CBTp therapist and an assistant psychologist) as well as the wider multidisciplinary team.

The post covers the geographical area West Suffolk, with bases in Bury St Edmund's, Sudbury and Haverhill.

If you have completed your CAP training with an adult populations and enjoy working with complexity and delivering psychologically informed individual and group interventions, we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Associate Psychologist, your duties could include:

Undertaking appropriate clinical work under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist, including the provision of psychological assessment, formulation, individual and group interventions.

Active participation in multidisciplinary team meetings, case discussion and formulation meetings.

Involvement in development of policies and project work in collaboration with appropriate team colleagues, including the development of our current psychologically informed service offers.

Data gathering for audit and research purposes link.

Training, and consultation.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful applicant will join our professional and friendly multidisciplinary team, where psychological interventions and consultation are highly valued.

The team consists of qualified and trainee nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, administration and assistant practitioner/support workers.

The post holder will need to be confident in completing assessments, running groups and delivering mental health interventions in person. They will also be required to support and work collaboratively with our colleagues within the CMHT service along with and the other organisations and allied teams in our care group.

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

Some of the benefits you can expect:

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

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters Clinical Associate in Psychology qualification Eligibility for registration on the BPS Wider Psychological Workforce register as an Associate Psychologist

Experience

Essential

Relevant supervised experience of delivering psychological assessments and interventions in [setting/service user group relevant to their specific scope of practice] Experience of working in a setting with Service Users presenting with moderate to severe mental health difficulties

Personal Qulaities

Essential

Ability to work effectively as part of a team. Awareness of their own competence and expertise and work within those boundaries.
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