Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist - West Suffolk YAMHS (18-25 year olds)

Job overview

Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist - West Suffolk Specialist YAMHS

Are you a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist or a band 7 Clinical Psychologist seeking progression? Or an existing 8A Clinical Psychologist ready for a new challenge? We would love for you to come and join us in the West Suffolk Young Adult Mental Health Service!

We’re looking for a proactive, passionate, and motivated 7/8A Clinical Psychologist to join our West Suffolk YAMHS team based in Bury St. Edmunds. Our service provides highly specialist mental health treatment for young adults and their families. As a team, we are committed to developing the best possible service for the young people we work with. We have a thriving psychology group within the YAMHS team including clinical psychologists, CBT, DBT, and systemic family therapists, and assistant psychologists led by experienced 8B principal clinical psychologists and well-supported by the Associate Director of Psychology.

We would welcome applications from newly/soon to be qualified clinical psychologists looking for a post with scope for progression.  We are keen to offer training opportunities and support our staff to develop through a range of exciting internal and external CPD opportunities.

We are open to discussing full and part-time working hours, and we understand everyone has commitments outside of work, so welcome conversations around flexible working options too.

Main duties of the job

If you have the drive to provide excellent care, can demonstrate high quality clinical and leadership 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 more details.

• Undertaking complex assessments of young adults and their systems, developing meaningful formulations and making highly skilled decisions which guide ongoing intervention options.
• Providing evidence-based psychological interventions and treatment for young people with a wide range of mental health presentations.
• To confidently use neuropsychological tests and other psychometrics to assess and formulate cases and inform treatment with this information in mind.
• To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise, knowledge and guidance to the team, in order to provide psychologically based frameworks of understanding, and develop psychological mindedness more generally within the team.
• To undertake and contribute to complex risk assessment and management of complex cases within the pathway.
• To contribute to the development of a response and effective Clinical Psychology service within the team, including the use of consultation.
• To support the Principal Clinical Psychologist and Consultant Clinical Psychologist in wider transformation and service development work where required.

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.

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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