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Job requirements
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Able to identify, provide and promote appropriate support strategies to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Other
Able to use multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Other
Ability to travel independently
- Skills
Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Skills
Well -developed communications skills (oral and written)
- Skills
Skills in neuropsychological assessment.
- Knowledge
Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context.
- Knowledge
Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS
- Qualification
Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology or counselling, accredited by BPS
- Qualification
Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical/counselling psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
- Qualification
Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
- Relevant experience
Experience of working with a wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems, in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Relevant experience
Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Other
Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Other
Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.
- Knowledge
Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical settings and service user group
- Qualification
Evidence of additional CPD in one or more areas of psychological practice
- Qualification
Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapy)
- Relevant experience
Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
- Relevant experience
Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
- Relevant experience
Experience of supervision and teaching
Job overview
We are excited to offer an opportunity to join the Acute Psychology team working across wards at Hellesdon Hospital, which includes 3 female and 2 male adult acute wards, and female Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. Applications from new qualified psychologists looking to complete their preceptorship from band 7 to 8a are welcomed.
The role involves close working with the wider multi-disciplinary team, promoting the use of psychological models and encouraging psychological thinking for the ward staff and the leadership team. Given the nature of the wards, work will often be focussed on assessment and formulation, with consideration for what would support discharge for the patient. Opportunities for extended pieces of work will also be available, in order to support your ongoing development.
We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive psychology team including a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, 2 Assistant Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Clinical and Counselling Psychologists. We come with a range of specialist interests and therapy expertise and have strong links to the UEA doctorate course.
Main duties of the job
- Completing assessments/formulations with the client to support their understanding of their mental health, guide ward staff in their support of the client, and inform discharge planning.
- Completing brief and extended psychological interventions using evidence based models.
- Working closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team to support trauma-informed, psychological thinking and promotion of risk formulation/safety planning to inform the team's intervention and discharge plans.
- Supervision of trainee psychologists, and assistant psychologists where appropriate.
- Offering regular reflective practice and team formulations to the wider teams as well as training on a range of relevant topics.
- Working on relevant research projects, audits, data analysis and trust related wider projects that help support and promote national initiatives and priorities in the delivery of inpatient care.
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!
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.
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Interviews are yet to be confirmed, and candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days’ notice. 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.
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.
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This advert is for Band 7/8a Acute Services Clinical Psychologist with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in Norwich, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 gross per annum (pro rata). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 11 Oct 2026.
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