Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Intensive Autism Support

We are seeking to recruit an 8c Consultant Practitioner Psychologist (0.6wte) to a new role within a small resource offering intensive support to those presenting in our urgent and emergency care pathways with a diagnosis of autism. The consultant will be based in Central Norfolk CRHT alongside a Learning Disability and Autism specialist nurse and an assistant psychologist. The intensive support resource will work with those service users with comorbid autism and mental health difficulties in a formulation-led and recovery-oriented way for up to a year. We are expecting that many of the service users will be in the 18-25 age group on the basis of our local service utilisation data., The post will involve direct work with service users and their carers and families, and also supervision of the other roles in this small team. The postholder will work with the other providers in the system to create a formulation-led care package to support the service user on discharge from this intensive support offer. The postholder will support the wider CRHT in their work with people with autism on a consultation basis. The post will be supported by an experienced 8c Consultant Psychologist who works across inpatient and CRHT services.

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.