Principal Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Not only will you work with the current Under 18 Wellbeing Service, but you will also work closely with the other early help teams: Psychology in Schools Team, Mental Health Support Teams, Emotional Wellbeing Hub and Suffolk Family Focus. These teams include members from a range of professions (including Clinical Psychology, psychological therapists, PMHWs, mental health nurses, CWPs, EMHPs, systemic practitioners, assistant psychologists) and backgrounds (including Adult and CYP services) and draw on a range of therapeutic models in their work, including, Trauma informed practice, Systemic, Attachment and Mentalisation-based approaches CBT, ACT, CAT, CFT. It is an ambition that all of these team members will be AMBIT trained in the coming year.

You will have strong skills and demonstrated interest in supporting multi-disciplinary colleagues with psychologically informed ways of working, through clinical supervision, consultation, formulation, training and reflective practice.

Your person and professional qualities with reflect compassionate and intelligent clinical leadership- a relational focus, curiosity, optimism, collaborative genuine style as well as strong knowledge of the psychological needs of families and young people.

You will have knowledge, skills and experience of working across the age range, with young people and their families and across the range of complexity. We are looking for individuals who bring personal enthusiasm, creativity and energy to work in this vital newly developing area.

The U18 Wellbeing team, Psychology and Schools Team, EWH, Suffolk Family Focus and Mental Health Support teams are joining forces through strong leadership to evoke change in the systems around children and young people, to connect, empower, and encourage individuals and communities to be champions of their own mental health. Local CFYP services are evolving, utilising the THIRVE model as the essence of a transformation which offers an exciting and original approach to mental health support. By joining our service you will be supporting this transformation, enabling us to promote and provide early intervention in the primary care arena and strengthen confidence of systems surrounding young people to respond to their need. This role will contribute to the wider system thinking about the development of services at the interface of education, health and social care. Making it a unique and exciting opportunity to be part of transforming local services for young people and their families.

This post is based at Endeavour house, but is Suffolk wide, with hybrid working arrangements possible. Being able to drive will be essential as the role will involve travelling to rural GP practices across Suffolk as well as a number of different hubs within the community.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a strong and supportive team and work with the wider system, to develop this valuable provision.

We would encourage any applicants who are interested to organise a meeting with Dr Beth Mosley MBE (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) who will be able to explain the role in more detail.

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 dates are to be confirmed, 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.

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Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Post graduate degree, or its equivalent in clinical or counselling psychology, or systemic family therapist
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

• Theory and practice of psychological interventions
• Experience of applying psychology in non -mental health settings

Essential

Essential

• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)

Essential

Essential

• Experience of working in MDT's with a range of complex presentations in child and adult setting

Desirable

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Endeavour House

Ipswich

IP1 2BX

Employer's website

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