Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-GYW5519865-H
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northgate Hospital
- Town
- Great Yarmouth
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Gross per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist *with 3K Welcome Bonus*
Band 8a
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
YOUR APPLICATION
It is important that you complete a formal application form as CV’s alone will not be accepted.
We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].
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Job overview
Practitioner Psychologist (qualified or preceptorship) *with 3K Welcome Bonus*
Are you a qualified Practitioner Psychologist (8a) or a third-year trainee seeking a preceptorship from Band 7 to Band 8a? This is your chance to make a real impact as you collaborate with a passionate and diverse multi-disciplinary team dedicated to delivering exceptional person-centred care. Experience a truly supportive environment where your passion for innovative services, evaluation, and research will be nurtured.
We are committed to fostering a culture of growth and development. In this position, you will have the opportunity to build and deliver cutting-edge psychological interventions across Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment (CRHT) and an acute ward.
So if you are interested in joining our team and you want to take the leap into a career that brings out the best in you and positively impacts the lives of others click on the link to apply. If you would like more information feel free to give either Marco or Michael a call.
Main duties of the job
You will have the chance to provide access to psychological assessment, formulation, and a range of evidence-based interventions. Your role will be pivotal in enhancing treatment options, effectiveness, and fostering collaborative care.
Your Impactful Responsibilities:
- Empowering Interventions: You will hold a clinical caseload and deliver psychological interventions in the CRHT and acute inpatient area, making a real difference in the lives of individuals, families, and groups.
- Inspiring Leadership: Your expertise will extend beyond direct interventions, both leading by example and by providing specialist supervision. And by supervising other psychological professionals as appropriate.
- Knowledge Sharing: Fuel the growth of our team by developing and delivering training across acute services. Champion a stepped care model of psychological support and embed psychological care in MDT work.
- Compassionate Support: Provide reflective, psychologically-led team supervision and post-incident support to uplift the psychological well-being and resilience of our dedicated staff.
- Co-Creation: Be an advocate for service user empowerment. Participate in shaping psychological services together, ensuring equal voice and co-produced vision.
- Academic Collaboration: Explore boundless opportunities for growth through our strong links with the local university. Embrace innovation, quality improvement, and research projects with our full support.
Working for our organisation
At our organization, we strive to shatter stereotypes and focus on creating an inclusive and engaging workplace.
The teams are based within the same building, which makes it easy for communication and joint-work, whilst reducing the need to travel between different sites. We have a dedicated office space at the Willow Centre in the same hospital site that can be used for supervision and report writing.
You will join a supportive wider network of psychological practitioners across Great Yarmouth and Waveney (including CAT, CBT, DBT, EMDR, and Systemic Therapists) and there are strong links with the University of East Anglia (UEA) for teaching, supervision and support of doctoral trainees.
We are very proud of our diverse psychological professionals' group and for career progression and opportunities being equally accessible for all psychological professions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- 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
Interview dates are yet to be set; 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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**This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some of the payment. Please note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only. **
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical/Counselling/Forensic psychology (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, accredited by the BPS
- Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses or willingness to undertake these when appropriate
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training when appropriate
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice as appropriate
- Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapist
Experience
Essential criteria
- If applying at 8a, experience working as a qualified psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee psychologists
- Experience of working 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 with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment or willingness to undertake this as a newly qualified practitioner psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts)
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Marco Pellegrini
- Job title
- Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07824 547910
- Additional information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Michael Briggs
Principal Psychotherapist
Email: [email protected]
07770588979
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