Clinical Psychologist

The Clinical Service Lead is a key clinical and management role and is responsible for the day-to-day clinical delivery of all aspects of the Staff Support Service. We are looking for a dedicated, compassionate, dynamic and enthusiastic Clinical Lead who is passionate about supporting & working with all staff across the organisation who have experienced Occupational Trauma that is impacting on them professionally and personally. The Clinical lead will help to shape the team to ensure sustainability and flexibility for the future. This is an opportunity to work in a team of experienced clinicians who launched through COVID and have worked across the wider front-line services to offer support to staff. The service has worked hard to build and develop a Trauma Informed approach focusing on resilience and recovery. This service is now aligned with local Talking Therapies Service covering both Norfolk and Suffolk areas. The Staff Support Service, besides a small team of Professionals providing one to one therapeutic intervention, also consists of the TRIM (Trauma Risk Incident Management) and in addition hosts a Primary Care Network (PCN) TRiM Manager as well supporting the Trust BME Engagement and Research Lead. The service has been managed through some changes and is developing a revised service model., This role involves direct clinical care, strategic development of the service, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, ultimately the successful candidate will provide specialised psychological support to staff members experiencing occupational trauma and other relevant clinical presentations. Supervised by the Band 8D Consultant Psychologist, this role will be alongside Senior Psychotherapists, and the Service Manager. Duties of the role include:

• To provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service for people with complex mental health problems across the Service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the Service. To supervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by other psychologists (newly qualified and trainees) and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• To undertake specialised clinical work within the Service and with external agencies, which will include assessment, direct and indirect intervention, supervision, training and consultancy.
• To provide specialist knowledge and consultation to staff at all levels and contribute to their development.
• To utilise research and training skills and knowledge for audit, policy and service development, research activity and other programmes within the Service., FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures - these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so. The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale. This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.


• Post-graduate doctorate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
Desirable criteria
• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, 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.
• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
Desirable criteria
• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  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 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience. 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!, 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. Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.


• 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.
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. NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills. CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.