Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join our Psychiatric Liaison Team within West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds. This is a newly funded and created role. We are looking for a motivated, compassionate team player, who enjoys working in a fast paced and often pressurised environment. You will be supported to develop into and fulfil this role and relevant CPD to support this will be available and encouraged.

Our Psychiatric Liaison Team is part of West Suffolk care group's crisis pathway. It works as a single point of access for referrals and provides a range of mental health specialties within one multidisciplinary team to patients of all ages. Our teams respond to a diverse range of referrals covering both the liaison and crisis assessment function.

As well as providing specialist psychological input, the role involves supporting the team to further develop psychologically informed ways of working. There are also exciting opportunities in relation to service development, evaluation and access to funding to specialist training relevant to the role (e.g. trauma informed care, DBT).

You will link in with the wider psychological professions network within the care group and across West Suffolk Hospital.

HCPC Practitioner Psychologists from a Clinical, Counselling, Health or Forensic background can be considered, depending on relevant skills and experience.

Main duties of the job

You will lead on the delivery of psychological input and services to the Psychiatric Liaison Team. Direct psychological input will include conducting specialist assessments, developing formulations and providing brief evidence-based interventions. You will also support the team to work in a psychologically-informed way, through joint working and the provision of training, case discussion/formulation, reflective practice sessions and supervision.

You will also be part of the Clinical Leadership of the team, working with the Consultant Psychiatrists and Clinical Team Leader to continue to develop the service, and to work towards the goal of PLAN accreditation (Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network).

Through linking in with other services and working together with a consultant clinical psychologist, you will also have the opportunity to develop therapeutic interventions within acute services, as part of psychologically-informed pathways.

About us

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

Benefits included with this role 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

Relocation packages.

We are proud of our culture of honesty, team involvement and ownership of quality patient care with job satisfaction.

There are well established links with the UEA Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course, and the role will include supporting and supervising Trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

West Suffolk Hospital, C/O Wedgwood House

Hardwick Lane

Bury St Edmunds

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 Hospital, C/O Wedgwood House

Hardwick Lane

Bury St Edmunds

IP33 2QZ

Employer's website

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

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