Clinical Psychologist Great Yarmouth, England
Job description
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 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, 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
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Job overview
We have a rare opportunity for an experienced or newly qualified psychologist to join our small paediatric psychology team based at the Silverwood Child and Family Centre, Great Yarmouth, serving the needs of young people with Epilepsy and Non-Epileptic Seizures. There will also be a requirement for you to attend some of the epilepsy clinics at James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston.
Our dedicated team works alongside the multidisciplinary paediatric teams at JPUH within the specialties of Diabetes, Orthopaedics, Gastroenterology, Epilepsy, FND from other paediatric clinics and Childhood Healthy Weight.
This is a part time role, for 2 days per week (15 hours); We can be flexible and can support you to top up your hours elsewhere in our services if you’re looking for more than 15 hours per week. We’re also able to support some remote working and flexible working hours.
When you join us, you’ll be supported by a large number of Clinical Psychologists working across a variety of Child, Family and Young People’s services within the Trust and will work directly with an experienced Senior Clinical Psychologist too.
If you’re a psychologist with an interest or experience working with paediatrics, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
The epilepsy psychology service has recently been commissioned to support the psychological needs of young people with epilepsy and non-epileptic seizures.
As well as assessment and therapy for families, you will offer advice, consultation and training to the wider team. It is essential that you are a strong team player, working well as an integrated part of different multidisciplinary teams, consisting of Consultant Physicians, specialist nurses, dieticians, physiotherapists and pharmacists.
The work you do will include individual and family appointments (face to face and via remote video), some in-patient work, multi-disciplinary liaison, consultation to the wider team; as well as opportunities for research and service development.
You will work closely with an experienced 8b Clinical Psychologist who currently provides psychology input to the epilepsy team, and there will be space for creativity as to how the developing service is shaped.
Our service has strong links with the DClinPsy course at UEA and there will be opportunities to supervise trainee clinical psychologists, on core or specialist placements, as well as time to complete audit and research projects.
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 nursing 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We would be happy to receive applications from HCPC registered practitioner psychologists, with or without experience in health psychology settings. Experience in working with children and families is preferred, but not essential. We are able to appoint newly qualified staff on a Band 7/ 8A preceptorship, and candidates with experience would be appointed at a Band 8A.
The post is based at the Silverwood Child and Family Centre, Great Yarmouth, and requires attendance at some of the epilepsy clinics at the JPUH in Gorleston. There will be access to the use of bookable therapy rooms across NSFT premises in Yarmouth and Lowestoft
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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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapist)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS.
- Well -developed communications skills (oral and written)
- Skills in neuropsychological assessment.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
- Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
- Experience of supervision and teaching.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
- Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical settings and s
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently
- Able to identify, provide and promote appropriate support strategies to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Two Ticks - Guaranteed Interview Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
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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.
