Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an 8c Consultant Clinical / Counselling Psychologist (reporting to the Lead consultant clinical psychologist in the North Norfolk and Norwich Care group). The 8c will play a lead role in service development, supervision, and delivery of the treatment pathway for people with difficulties which might be described as "personality disorder" and complex emotional needs across our primary care networks and secondary care adult mental health services.
You will be an HCPC accredited Practitioner Psychologist, with strong evidence for your passion, commitment, experience and expertise for working with service users and MDT colleagues in this area. We are seeking someone who has a strong interest in Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Mentalisation Based Therapy. (MBT).
Main duties of the job
As an 8c Consultant Clinical / Counselling Psychologist you will encourage the development of a psychologically informed workforce; take responsibility for the roll-out of the PD workforce and support the delivery of psychologically informed interventions and formulation across primary and secondary care.
You will have strong clinical skills in complex mental health and be able to evidence your interest in working with this client group. You will also have strong leadership skills and interest in supporting multi-disciplinary colleagues with psychologically informed ways of working, through clinical supervision, consultation, formulation, training and reflective practice.
Your personal and professional characteristics will reflect those associated with working well with this client group therapeutic optimism, a relational focus, a curious, collaborative, and genuine professional style, strong knowledge and understanding of factors associated with personality difficulties such as emotional instability, risk, trauma and dissociation.
About us
About us
Psychology is well-established and valued in the Care Group, with a supportive and proactive wider adult psychology team across community and acute settings. A wide range of specialist skills and interests are represented, and regular training places are provided.
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.
Benefits included with this role are: -
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave whole time equivalent 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- You will have a key role in the expansion and development of the treatment pathway for people with difficulties which might be described as "personality disorder" and complex emotional needs.
- You will encourage and develop a psychologically informed team of mental health practitioners and peer support workers in our primary care networks in our care group and take a lead on:
- The development of DBT and MBT provision across primary and secondary care
- Formulation driven care
- Delivery of the personality disorder strategy
- Integration of services into secondary care
- Advice and guidance to GPs
- Active consultation and engagement with the pcn clinical service manager and other members of the MDT across primary and secondary care (including general practitioners)
- Clinical supervision of DBT leads and MBT; trainees and trained staff.
- Carry a caseload of the most complex clients in primary and secondary care
- Run DBT/MBT groups
- Carry out assessments (including psychodiagnostic assessments when required).
- Consultation on complex cases.
- Assisting with transitions to and from primary and secondary care.
- You will be embedded within the existing CMHT psychology teams, with access to peer support and resources and have links with the trust wide personality strategy network.
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!
Interviews are to be held on 13th July 2022 however subject to change, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
- You will have a key role in the expansion and development of the treatment pathway for people with difficulties which might be described as "personality disorder" and complex emotional needs.
- You will encourage and develop a psychologically informed team of mental health practitioners and peer support workers in our primary care networks in our care group and take a lead on:
- The development of DBT and MBT provision across primary and secondary care
- Formulation driven care
- Delivery of the personality disorder strategy
- Integration of services into secondary care
- Advice and guidance to GPs
- Active consultation and engagement with the pcn clinical service manager and other members of the MDT across primary and secondary care (including general practitioners)
- Clinical supervision of DBT leads and MBT; trainees and trained staff.
- Carry a caseload of the most complex clients in primary and secondary care
- Run DBT/MBT groups
- Carry out assessments (including psychodiagnostic assessments when required).
- Consultation on complex cases.
- Assisting with transitions to and from primary and secondary care.
- You will be embedded within the existing CMHT psychology teams, with access to peer support and resources and have links with the trust wide personality strategy network.
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!
Interviews are to be held on 13th July 2022 however subject to change, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Training in clinical psychology at postgraduate doctoral level, as accredited by the BPS (British Psychological Society) or equivalent
- Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- A high level ability to communicate complex information effectively
- Working in partnership
- Service improvement
- Leadership - the ability to lead people through service change
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups
- An interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Ability to demonstrate leadership skills
Desirable
- Knowledge and skills to carry out complex multivariate statistical analyses, create and manipulate databases, produce presentational materials and scientific papers and books at publications standard, posters and power point presentations
- Management and leadership skills
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of six years
- Experience of working with service users within the designated specialty
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training professional and clinical supervision
Desirable
- Post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located
- Experience of leading qualified and pre qualified clinical psychologists
- Experience of representing the profession
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Supervising and training others to do research
- Management and leadership experience
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Knowledge of egislation and its implications for both clinical practice in relation to service users in the designated specialty and mental health generally
- National policy with respect to clinical psychology and psychotherapy
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the British Psychological Society
- Training in supervision of other psychologists
- Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
- Service evaluation tools, including audit.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic professional journals and / or books
- Management knowledge including knowledge of HR processes, staff development and performance management models.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Training in clinical psychology at postgraduate doctoral level, as accredited by the BPS (British Psychological Society) or equivalent
- Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- A high level ability to communicate complex information effectively
- Working in partnership
- Service improvement
- Leadership - the ability to lead people through service change
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups
- An interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Ability to demonstrate leadership skills
Desirable
- Knowledge and skills to carry out complex multivariate statistical analyses, create and manipulate databases, produce presentational materials and scientific papers and books at publications standard, posters and power point presentations
- Management and leadership skills
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of six years
- Experience of working with service users within the designated specialty
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training professional and clinical supervision
Desirable
- Post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located
- Experience of leading qualified and pre qualified clinical psychologists
- Experience of representing the profession
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Supervising and training others to do research
- Management and leadership experience
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Knowledge of egislation and its implications for both clinical practice in relation to service users in the designated specialty and mental health generally
- National policy with respect to clinical psychology and psychotherapy
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the British Psychological Society
- Training in supervision of other psychologists
- Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
- Service evaluation tools, including audit.
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic professional journals and / or books
- Management knowledge including knowledge of HR processes, staff development and performance management models.
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).
