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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Assistant Clinical Psychologist

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Job summary

Are you an existing Assistant Psychologist looking for a new challenge? Or an aspiring Psychologist seeking your first Assistant role? If you have the passion, drive, and commitment towards providing the very best psychological support to young people we would love for you to come and join us in Suffolk Young Adult Mental Health Service (YAMHS)!

Our service provides highly specialist mental health treatment to young people aged 18-25 experiencing moderate to severe mental health disorders. We're seeking three proactive, passionate, and motivated Assistant Psychologists to join our service; and have vacancies available in our three YAMHS teams:

  • 1 Full-Time Assistant Clinical Psychologist - East Suffolk YAMHS (Ipswich) - 22 month fixed-term contract.
  • 1 Full-Time Assistant Clinical Psychologist - West Suffolk YAMHS (Bury St Edmunds) - 22 month fixed-term contract.
  • 1 Full-Time Assistant Clinical Psychologist - split role: 0.5 Central Suffolk YAMHS (Stowmarket), 0.5 research evaluation for Personality Disorder/Complex Emotional Needs Strategy across YAMHS service

Please indicate within your application form which of these positions you would like to be considered for.

If you have the drive to provide excellent care, the ambition to develop high quality clinical skills, and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to young people's lives then we would love to hear from you.

Please see the attached recruitment letter for further information.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job specification and recruitment letter. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the nominated Specialist YAMHS service, to in summary:

  • Support the overall psychological care and treatment of young adults within the service.
  • Provide psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist; including the use of specialist psychometric assessments.
  • Under supervision, to deliver brief psychological interventions.
  • Support the qualified Clinical Psychologist in the development and delivery of workshops and training packages.
  • Participate in audit, research, service evaluation, and project activities.
  • For research evaluation role - to work alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to lead on implementation and evaluation of interventions within PD/CEN strategy. This will include the collation and evaluation of data, dissemination of results, involvement with broader research activity, training of teams, possible presentation at conference.

About us

The Trust has been undergoing significant transformation to improve its services and improve the key areas of responsiveness, safety, effectiveness, caring and well led. There have been challenges with improving services, so we are working closely with our partners and regulators to utilise this opportunity to rethink and redesign services.

It is important to us that we recognise the need for people to have a good balance between work and other commitments and as such we would love to have a conversation with anyone wanting to consider this role as a job share or to work on less than full time or flexible hours.

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.

Details

Date posted

27 September 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year gross per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

22 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-CFYP5676050

Job locations

Mariner House or Haymills or G Block

Ipswich or Stowmarket or Bury St Edmunds

IP333NR


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job specification and recruitment letter. We appreciate that as part of developing the skills and experience required to take the next steps to clinical training, our Assistant Psychologists value a range of experiences. Within our Suffolk Children, Young People and Families (CFYP) care group, we support our Assistant Psychologists to gain experience working within and across our core secondary Mental Health services. Therefore, whilst these positions will in the main be based within the above services, there may also be opportunities to become involved in clinical and project work within our CAMHS service working with children, young people and their families (under 18). It is also likely that there will be opportunities to contribute to broader projects, audit and evaluation within the caregroup.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job specification and recruitment letter. We appreciate that as part of developing the skills and experience required to take the next steps to clinical training, our Assistant Psychologists value a range of experiences. Within our Suffolk Children, Young People and Families (CFYP) care group, we support our Assistant Psychologists to gain experience working within and across our core secondary Mental Health services. Therefore, whilst these positions will in the main be based within the above services, there may also be opportunities to become involved in clinical and project work within our CAMHS service working with children, young people and their families (under 18). It is also likely that there will be opportunities to contribute to broader projects, audit and evaluation within the caregroup.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A BPS accredited degree in Psychology.

Desirable

  • CPD activities relevant to the service area

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of qualitative and quantitative research

Desirable

  • Experience of research in the NHS

Skills

Essential

  • Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows.

Desirable

  • Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and colleagues

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of mental health
  • An understanding of psychology applied to health care.

Desirable

  • An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A BPS accredited degree in Psychology.

Desirable

  • CPD activities relevant to the service area

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of qualitative and quantitative research

Desirable

  • Experience of research in the NHS

Skills

Essential

  • Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows.

Desirable

  • Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and colleagues

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of mental health
  • An understanding of psychology applied to health care.

Desirable

  • An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Mariner House or Haymills or G Block

Ipswich or Stowmarket or Bury St Edmunds

IP333NR


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Mariner House or Haymills or G Block

Ipswich or Stowmarket or Bury St Edmunds

IP333NR


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Dr Jo Baines

joanna.baines@nsft.nhs.uk

07534014984

Details

Date posted

27 September 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year gross per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

22 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-CFYP5676050

Job locations

Mariner House or Haymills or G Block

Ipswich or Stowmarket or Bury St Edmunds

IP333NR


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