Job summary
This is a wonderful opportunity for an experienced and committed Clinical Psychologist to join our fantastic, psychologically minded older people's community mental health team based at Mariner House in Ipswich.
We are seeking applicants who wish to work full or part time.
With formulation at the heart of what this team does, you will support the MDT in taking forward psychologically informed care as well as offering and developing psychological interventions for older people, at an exciting time of service transformation. We are looking for someone committed to multi-disciplinary team working who can provide professional and clinical leadership to psychology and non-psychology colleagues. You will play a key role in developing the range of psychological interventions for older people with complex mental health needs within the service transformation framework, ensuring equity of access and appropriate adaptations.
We are proud of our commitment to delivering the highest quality care to our service users and carers. The service is working towards Royal College of Psychiatrists Accreditation. We have an excellent track record in co-production and recently appointed the first Peer Support Worker in older people's services in Suffolk.
Main duties of the job
As an integral part of the MDT, you will offer formulation, consultation, supervision and training, as well as direct work with older people with a range of mental health difficulties and dementia, and their families and carers.
You will undertake psychological assessment, including neuropsychology, to inform formulation and intervention, you will offer and develop a range of interventions, including direct therapy, interventions with people with dementia and distressed behaviour and interventions as part of the Trust's personality and complex emotional needs strategy.
Managed by a consultant clinical psychologist, you will be part of a team of friendly and supportive psychologists/psychological therapists working with older people in East Suffolk, including an 8b Clinical Psychologist in the Memory Service, a full time CAT therapist, an Art Psychotherapist and 2 Clinical Associate Psychologists. You will have access to specialist later life clinical supervision, including neuropsychology supervision. We have strong links with our later life psychology colleagues in West Suffolk and Norfolk.
Your CPD will be supported and you will be encouraged to access relevant training, according to your interests. Please get in touch to discuss your career aspirations. You would be supported to make the transition from 8a to 8b and to develop your leadership skills.
About us
This team has had feedback from service users and carers about being a very skilled, kind and compassionate team. It has a very strong focus on working together, with very proactive leadership and a strong focus on development. QI projects are encouraged and one currently underway has a psychological focus, looking at the impact on formulation on the discharge process.
There are very close relationships with the University of East Anglia and we provide core older adults and specialist third year placements. There are also excellent links with NSFT's strong research department and research opportunities are available and would be supported.
Benefits included with these roles 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.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 this role then click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
** This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000. 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. **
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 this role then click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
** This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000. 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. **
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
- Further post- qualification, post- graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
Desirable
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
- Relevant experience in service area
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
Desirable
- Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge
- Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
Skills
Essential
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- Production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in medico- legal setting
- High level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of psychological therapies
Knowledge
Essential
- Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy
- Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Legislation and its implication for clinical practice and the appropriate management of people presenting with mental health problems
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
- Further post- qualification, post- graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
Desirable
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
- Relevant experience in service area
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
Desirable
- Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge
- Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
Skills
Essential
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- Production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in medico- legal setting
- High level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of psychological therapies
Knowledge
Essential
- Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy
- Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Legislation and its implication for clinical practice and the appropriate management of people presenting with mental health problems
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
