Principal Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

We are delighted to advertise a Principal Clinical Psychologist post for the South Norfolk Community Mental Health Team in the Central Norfolk Locality.  The role will help improve pathways and evidence-based therapies for personality disorder and complex emotional needs. This role is designed to work with adults over the age of 25 and will link with other adult and personality disorder services across the locality and Trust. The post holder will work alongside a dedicated multi-disciplinary team and a well-established psychology team including other Principal Clinical Psychologists. The post will directly oversee the personality disorder pathway roles and provide leadership to the wider team.

In addition to providing and overseeing highly specialist therapies within the community team, the role will involve providing consultation, training and supervision to the team and wider system. The aim will be to deliver training and support that will improve system knowledge, skills and intervention capacity.

We are seeking to recruit a practitioner psychologist with training in at least one therapeutic model appropriate for complex presentations. This could be Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy or a more relational therapy such as CAT or Schema-Focussed Therapy.  We would like successful candidates to undertake further training to improve flexibility and patient choice.

Interested parties are invited to call for an informal discussion or visit.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Principal Clinical Psychologist within our South adult Community Mental Health Team and personality disorder pathway is to provide senior clinical leadership with some time dedicated to direct clinical work, alongside a significant focus on leadership activities. This includes:

• Oversee the personality disorder pathway in South CMHT and build relationships with the wider PD pathway across Central Norfolk and NSFT. To promote consistency and quality in the provision, and address issues in equity.
• Collaborative and shared leadership with other Principle Clinical Psychologists and MDT clinical and operational leads.
• To maintain and develop the DBT provision in the South CMHT.
• Deliver consultation, training, supervision and support across CMHT clinicians to help build confidence in using skills learnt to treat service users with complex presentations.
• Providing a key role in team containment, working with professional systems, having difficult conversations, managing team emotions, and thinking systemically.
• Build relationships within the CMHT and across the system to encourage evidence-based treatment and best practice for working with complex presentations which will encourage a seamless service user journey.
• To ensure the quality and effectiveness of the pathway including access data, clinical outcome data and service user feedback.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking to recruit an inspired and confident Practitioner Psychologist to provide quality containment, supervision and leadership to our clinical staff, and to contribute to the direction of the service. You will be supervised by the Associate Director of Psychology. You will have the opportunity to hold a small caseload; delivering skilled interventions, and demonstrating leadership across the service. If you are interested and passionate about working with personality disorder and complex emotional and relational needs in a community setting, then please get in contact.

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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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.