Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist

Job summary

Clinical or Counselling Psychologist -Band 8a or Band 7 Preceptorship

Posts are available in our friendly recovery teams for 2.8 wte 8a Clinical Psychologists committed to multidisciplinary working, to build on the team's existing capacity for safe delivery of psychologically informed care. Psychologists are highly valued in West Suffolk and the post holder will enjoy working alongside non-psychology colleagues that are enthusiastic about psychologically informed practice, as well as an 8b Clinical Psychologist, a Clinical Associate Psychologist and an Assistant Psychologist in each team, with a Consultant Psychologist overseeing. The posts offer opportunities to develop leadership skills, as well as to become involved in the transformation of services. We have strong structures in place for clinical supervision and encourage collaboration with other psychologists in the Trust. We are committed to investing in our colleagues, and will support your CPD aspirations - choose from DBT, EMDR, ACT and CBT-p (or other relevant course) to enable your development as a specialist practitioner in secondary care. The post offers flexibility and structure and a highly supportive, engaged psychology team, who have your development as a person and practitioner at their heart. Opportunities to gain experience in an alternative setting can be negotiated

Main duties of the job

You will provide psychological assessment, formulation and intervention directly to service users presenting with a range of mental health concerns, as well offering consultation and advice to team colleagues, working indirectly to benefit the service user and support the team. We have a strong focus on group work, and you will have opportunity to facilitate groups and innovate and develop new ones as the need arises. You will help the team develop their psychological skills and deliver psychologically informed interventions via reflective practice and clinical supervision and will offer training as required. There are opportunities to supervise assistant psychologists and clinical psychology trainees. You will help embed the use of DIALOG+ to develop co-produced care plans and help drive forward the Trust Formulation Strategy. We encourage participation in the Trust Recovery College - attending, developing and delivering co-produced courses alongside our colleagues with lived experience of using mental health services.

About us

There are exciting changes happening within West Suffolk, in line with transformation plans that integrate mental health with physical and social care and bring services closer to communities and more accessible to those that use them. As such, the post offers opportunities to contribute to the evolution of services, and to lead on the development, delivery and evaluation of psychologically informed care packages as part of the secondary mental health care offer. Bases for the posts are in Newmarket, Sudbury and Bury St Edmunds.

The teams enjoy a good working atmosphere. Colleagues support each other, and value each other's contributions. You will feel an integral part of the multidisciplinary community team and enjoy relationships with psychology colleagues across other teams via supervision arrangements and regular psychology meetings. Research interests are encouraged and supported.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

West Suffolk

West Suffolk

IP33 2QZ

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

West Suffolk

West Suffolk

IP33 2QZ

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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