Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

Clinical Psychologist - Band 8a (Band 7 Preceptorship)

We have an opportunity available in our friendly, well-established, adult community mental health teams for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist committed to multidisciplinary working.  Building on our teams' existing capacity for safe delivery of psychologically informed care the post holders will enjoy working in teams that include 8b Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, CBT and DBT therapists, and Clinical Associates in Psychology, under the guidance of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.  Approaches used include CBT, EMDR, ACT, and DBT and training in these or other relevant areas will be encouraged and supported; we are committed to investing in our colleagues and will support your development to a specialist practitioner in secondary care. Furthermore, we can offer the opportunity to work in a Joint Post with the University of East Anglia, with the opportunity to work up to 1 day a week as part of the UEA DClinPsych Team.

The post offers opportunities to develop leadership skills, as well as to become involved in the transformation of services.  We have strong structures in place for clinical supervision and encourage collaboration with other psychologists in the Trust.  Depending on experience, we are able to appoint to 8a or band 7 preceptorship up to 8a

Main duties of the job

Based in  Bury St Edmunds, and covering bases across Suffolk (including Thetford, Newmarket, Sudbury and Haverhill) you will provide psychological assessment, formulation and intervention directly to service users presenting with a range of mental health concerns, as well offering consultation and advice to team colleagues, working indirectly to benefit the service user and support the team. We have a strong focus on group work, and you will have opportunity to facilitate groups and innovate and develop new ones as the need arises. You will help the team develop their psychological skills via reflective practice and clinical supervision and will offer training as required. There are opportunities to supervise assistant psychologists, clinical psychology trainees and clinical associates in psychology. You will help embed the use of DIALOG+ to develop co-produced care plans and help drive forward the Trust Formulation Strategy. We encourage participation in the Trust Recovery College – attending, developing and delivering co-produced courses alongside our colleagues with lived experience of using mental health services. This post provides the opportunity to facilitate joined up working across our two CMHTs in West Suffolk, building on the skills of our workforce to best meet service user need.  We are particularly interested in the post holder taking a lead in service wide initiatives such as our Crisis Plus intervention.

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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