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Job requirements
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Essential
8 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
Ability to travel independently - Has full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
- Skills
Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Skills
Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS.
- Experience
Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
- Experience
Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
- Qualifications
Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
- Qualifications
Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
We currently have an opportunity to provide a 1-year fixed-term maternity cover (0.8wte) for our Clinical Psychologist in a dedicated mental health service for older adults. The Trust’s Older People’s service has been rated as ‘good’ by the CQC. We are committed to further improving care and delivering excellent quality services in the context of the ongoing transformation plan.
As the team psychologist, you will provide specialist clinical psychological assessments of individuals, carers and families of service users, using and interpreting complex psychological data from a variety of sources. This will include neuropsychological assessment and formulation. You will also provide formulation and implementation of formal psychological treatment and/or management plans, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user. You will play a key role in supporting and developing team formulation and the implementation of a range of psychological interventions for service users, and, where appropriate, carers and families.
Main duties of the job
You will need to make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes and provide specialist clinical psychology expertise, knowledge, advice and guidance to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care.
You will be joining a very warm, positive and psychologically-minded team who are strong in their own professions (nurses, medics, occupational therapists, support workers and social care), able to reflect on their clinical practice and contribute to formulations. The team are used to hosting Trainee Clinical Psychologists, as well as other students, and you will have the opportunity to continue to provide clinical placements for the University of East Anglia (UEA). The feedback from our Trainees is that the team is fun, welcoming and nurturing. We also have strong links with UEA in lecturing and research. Your role will include a mixture of direct clinical work, groups, consultation, supervision, training and evaluation/research to ensure the team has the widest possible impact.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are passionate about, or want to develop skills in, working with older people and you want to be part of developing mental health interventions for older adults at an exciting time of change and improvement then please get in touch.
Please see Job description for full details.
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 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 pro rata. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (To cover maternity leave). The application deadline is 07 Sep 2026.
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