Job summary
Due to career progression an opportunity to come and work in our Older Person's Services has arisen. The post is located in the historic market town of Wymondham, located just a short drive from Norwich and covers South Norfolk.
We are looking to appoint an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist who has experience or an interest in working with Older People, as well as having the warmth, compassion and vitality to match our lovely team. We are keen to appoint applicants who bring a diversity of life experiences to our teams.
This post is for a Clinical Psychologist in a traditional multidisciplinary service, providing very much needed access to assessments and interventions for some of our more distressed community members. Alongside the traditional MDT the service fits within a modern pathway of mental health provision flexing with newer alliance partners and primary care offers as part of the overall Community Mental Health Transformation plan, as well as providing a range of up-to-date interventions in line with NICE and HEE expectations. This role stands apart from others due to the role-development which can be guided by the successful candidate.
Main duties of the job
You will of course have a special interest in and a passion for working with older people; advocating compassionately to ensure their needs are met equitably. You will need to be able to apply skills and expertise in clinical, risk and neuropsychological assessments to collaboratively develop formulations and care plans and provide guidance and consultation to the MDT and other agencies. You will be able to hold a range of related issues in mind when creating your formulations; possibly including complex physical health challenges, cognitive impairments such as dementia, complex systemic issues as well as resilience and strengths.
In addition to the direct clinical work, you will facilitate carer support groups, reflective practice and team formulation approaches to support staff wellbeing and promote psychological and neuropsychological understanding of complex cases and behaviour's that challenge.
About us
For many years our Older People's services have been rated by CQC as "Good", and we are very keen to maintain high standards in Older People's services. We value nurturing and supporting our staff to develop their career, to maximise their expertise whilst strategically meeting the needs of the community we serve. We have been successful in our bids for training from HEE; receiving training places in Behavioural Family Therapy, Eating Disorders, Clinical Neuropsychology, Psychosis and Bipolar, and CBT for Personality Disorders.
There are opportunities for involvement in research in collaboration with University of East Anglia.
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.
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!
Proposed interview date will be 12th October, you may only be given 3 days notice prior to your interview and email invites may go into your spam folder.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
You will hold the psychological expertise for the Community team; providing a consistent and reliable clinical presence that colleagues can turn to for both clinical reflection as well as informal support. This will include attendance at the weekly MDT, and at relevant Trust-wide meetings to maintain clear channels of communication. You will play a key role in delivering the psychologically-informed objectives of NSFT to the clinical coalface, directly through your own clinical work, and indirectly supporting colleagues with their delivery of psychologically-informed interventions. You will have oversight of the psychological work being delivered within the team ensuring that interventions are consistent with both NICE guidelines and best practice; as recommended by our key drivers of excellence such as the Faculty of Psychology for Older People (FPOP).
You will have a role in our supervision structure which spans all of the five WSOP clinical pathways, and deliver group/individual supervision as needed. You will receive regular clinical supervision with psychology peers, as well as specialist Neuropsychology supervision. The service has strong links with the DClinPsy Training Program at UEA and regularly provides clinical placements, as well as opportunities to supervise our Trainee Medic colleagues with their therapy cases. You will join colleagues in WSOP with additional training in CFT, CAT, CBT, Behavioural Family Therapy and Neuropsychology.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will hold the psychological expertise for the Community team; providing a consistent and reliable clinical presence that colleagues can turn to for both clinical reflection as well as informal support. This will include attendance at the weekly MDT, and at relevant Trust-wide meetings to maintain clear channels of communication. You will play a key role in delivering the psychologically-informed objectives of NSFT to the clinical coalface, directly through your own clinical work, and indirectly supporting colleagues with their delivery of psychologically-informed interventions. You will have oversight of the psychological work being delivered within the team ensuring that interventions are consistent with both NICE guidelines and best practice; as recommended by our key drivers of excellence such as the Faculty of Psychology for Older People (FPOP).
You will have a role in our supervision structure which spans all of the five WSOP clinical pathways, and deliver group/individual supervision as needed. You will receive regular clinical supervision with psychology peers, as well as specialist Neuropsychology supervision. The service has strong links with the DClinPsy Training Program at UEA and regularly provides clinical placements, as well as opportunities to supervise our Trainee Medic colleagues with their therapy cases. You will join colleagues in WSOP with additional training in CFT, CAT, CBT, Behavioural Family Therapy and Neuropsychology.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS.
- Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses.
- Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training.
- 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.
- Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapist).
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working (including placements) with a wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems, in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of working (including placements) with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
- Experience of supervision and teaching.
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS.
- Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses.
- Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training.
- 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.
- Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapist).
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working (including placements) with a wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems, in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of working (including placements) with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
- Experience of supervision and teaching.
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
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).
