Job summary
Are you a skilled and experiencedClinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologistlooking to lead and shape psychological servicesfor children and young people? This role offers an exciting leadership opportunity, as an 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist, to provide high-quality psychological care, develop innovate clinical pathways, and support staff and service users within a 0-14 community CAMHS covering Central Norfolk.
The role will involve working alongside a diverse multi-professional team, providing clinical oversight of the psychological therapies offered within the team and offering direct clinical supervision to 8a Clinical Psychologists and Psychological Therapists.
The team strives to be dynamic and creative and provide a needs-led approach to improve the lives of children and young people by providing a mental health service to be proud of. It is a service that shows compassion, kindness and hope at a time when families need it most. The team can support hybrid and flexible working patterns to ensure a balanced and healthy work life.
It is worth noting it is an NSFT ambition that the age range will change to 0-16 in 2026 with an aim to extend this to 0-18 as the service develops.
Main duties of the job
- Clinical Leadership: Drive change forward and ensure high standards of psychological care are maintained in line with the current evidence base and national policy
- Service Development: Create and support collaborative change, consult with CAMHS staff and relevant services and lead on co-production with service users to improve access to psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions; ensuring a needs-led efficient and effective service
- Supervision & Line Management: Offer clinical supervision/ line management to psychological professionals and trainees; fostering a culture of learning and ensuring high quality, formulation-led clinical work across CAMHS
- Training & Development: Develop and deliver training to embed psychologically informed practices within the multidisciplinary team; supporting a stepped care model of psychological care
- Staff Wellbeing: Provide reflective practice and post-incident support; enhancing resilience and retention
- Clinical Practice: Deliver specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions (including, but not exclusive to, CBT) for those with complex mental health needs. Stay abreast of relevant training, legislation and professional development to ensure a high level of competence in clinical practice
- Innovation & Research: Work with local universities to support teaching and supervise doctoral trainees. Contribute to research and quality improvement initiatives
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
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!
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
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!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
- Further post qualification, postgraduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
- Application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training
- Relevant experience in service area.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Desirable
- Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge.
- Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Skills
Essential
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable
- Production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in medico-legal setting.
- High level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of psychological therapies.
Knowledge
Essential
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
- Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy.
- Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Legislation and its implication for clinical practice and the appropriate management of people presenting with mental health problems.
- Creating and delivering presentations and training programmes in line with specialist knowledge.
other
Essential
- Commitment to continuing professional development, to partnership working and to reflective clinical practice.
- Capacity to exercise careful clinical judgement whilst having the ability to work with and to hold the stress of others in the work setting.
- Able to identify, and employ appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
- Ability to travel Independently.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
- Further post qualification, postgraduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
- Application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training
- Relevant experience in service area.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Desirable
- Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge.
- Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Skills
Essential
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable
- Production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in medico-legal setting.
- High level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of psychological therapies.
Knowledge
Essential
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
- Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy.
- Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Legislation and its implication for clinical practice and the appropriate management of people presenting with mental health problems.
- Creating and delivering presentations and training programmes in line with specialist knowledge.
other
Essential
- Commitment to continuing professional development, to partnership working and to reflective clinical practice.
- Capacity to exercise careful clinical judgement whilst having the ability to work with and to hold the stress of others in the work setting.
- Able to identify, and employ appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
- Ability to travel Independently.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.
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).
