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
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
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New Year, new opportunity?
Would you like to join an expanding psychology and therapies team in the acute services in East Suffolk, covering the adult inpatient wards, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) and the Mental Health Liaison Service (MHLS) at Ipswich General Hospital?
The postholder will take the lead on developing a high-quality clinical psychology service to adults referred to the CRHTT and MHLS. This is an exciting time to join the team in the acute service and there are opportunities work alongside other clinical psychologists and psychological therapists to influence the culture and model of care of the service making a real difference to clinical outcomes. As well as holding a clinical caseload the role will include providing clinical supervision to the wider teams, training, service development and contribute to the overall management of the therapies team. Your leadership skills will be supported and developed, with access to relevant training and development programmes, supervision and mentoring.
Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has close links with the University of East Anglia Clinical Psychology Doctorate course and there are opportunities available to combine this clinical role with a part-time role at UEA for interested applicants (please get in touch if you are interested).
- To provide psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures and rating scales.
- To formulate plans for psychological treatment and/or management of a person's mental and/or health problems based upon an appropriate understanding of their difficulties.
- To be responsible for implementing a psychological interventions appropriate to the needs of people referred to the acute adult mental health service.
- To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental issues.
- To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, within the adult acute mental health service, NSFT and other organisations.
- To ensure that all members of the wider clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of those people referred to the service through the provision of advice, consultation and clinical supervision for psychological interventions.
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.
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:-
- 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.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park while still being just over an hour away from London. 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.
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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**Previous applicants need not apply**
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.