8b Clinical/Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 0.6wte 8b clinical/counselling/forensic psychologist to provide clinical leadership to the male inpatient pathway at Hellesdon Hospital, which comprises of two wards and a total of 33 beds. You will be joining our well-established psychology team working across the largest acute service in NSFT that comprises of five inpatients wards, 3 of which are part of the new build, and a crisis resolution home treatment team; there is also likely to be one more ward opening by the end of this year.

Within the role you will be helping to provide psychological clinical leadership, regarding MDT decision making, risk management and reduction in restrictive interventions. You will work closely with our multi-disciplinary team colleagues, helping to inform and engage the teams in more psychological ways of thinking and formulating our service users. You will work alongside other psychology colleagues to aid smooth transition and coherent treatment/management plans for service users across the inpatient service line and back into wider community services.

You will provide supervision and line management to other members of the inpatient psychology team to help ensure adherence to evidence base practice, outcome measures and audit data. You will also work alongside the associate director of psychology on projects linked to both local and trust wide strategies and innovations.

Main duties of the job

The work is challenging, fast paced and rewarding; our psychology team come with a range of specialist interests and therapy expertise and have strong links to the UEA doctorate course. There will be the opportunity for training and development as part of the role.

- Ensuring the provision of evidence based psychological assessment and treatment across the male inpatient wards.

- Providing specialist assessment and formulation of complex clients to help aid clinical decision making re diagnosis, management of risk and treatment pathways.

- Working closely with the wider MDT as well as community services involved, to provide clinical leadership in order to enhance psychological thinking and promotion of psychological formulation to facilitate optimal patient care and promote best practice guidelines.

- Working with families and carers where appropriate, particularly on complex cases where the system may feel quite 'stuck'.

- Provision of line management and clinical supervision to other clinicians within the inpatient psychology team.

- Working alongside the Associate Director of Psychology to help contribute to local and trust level service development and initiatives where appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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!

We would be very pleased to talk to you about the post. For more information please contact Jamie Durrance, Associate Director of Psychology on 07557744742 or [email protected]