Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologists to join the multidisciplinary team providing services under clinical supervision to our forensic community mental health team. The team is based in Norwich but provide support to people across Norfolk. The current post-holder is moving on to start their ClinPsyD training.

Our forensic community team form part of a wide and growing body of clinical services operating in a variety of settings linked to criminal justice services. NSFT Secure Services offer low and medium secure mental health services for men, an innovative integrated secure mental health service for women, mental health and personality disorder services in the local prisons, community forensic services, criminal justice liaison and diversion services and Offender Personality Disorder services in partnership with probation services.

About us

As a part of the wider NSFT Secure Services Psychology Team, the post-holder will receive regular clinical and management supervision, and also professional and governance support from within the team. Within NSFT Secure Services we employ a diverse and supportive team of psychologists, including clinical, counselling and forensic psychologists, and we are able offer our team members the opportunity to continue to develop their expertise via training and development opportunities in different parts of our service. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within the forensic community mental health team for Norfolk based at Hellesdon Hospital. The post-holder will work alongside the qualified psychologist for the team, and under the umbrella of the wider, well-established NSFT Secure Services Psychology Team.

Within this role, you will have the opportunity to help deliver risk assessments, mental health assessments and brief psychological interventions to service users, as well as co-facilitating therapeutic group work.

As part of the MDT, you will be working with the community team to help create and implement positive behaviour support plans, and to support with psychological formulations and psychologically informed practice.

The posts involve working with a range of mental health difficulties, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis, personality disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders. There will also be the opportunity to learn about offence specific assessments, formulations and interventions which are delivered by the team.

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.