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Are you a skilled and experienced Clinical Psychologist looking to lead and shape psychological services? This role offers an exciting leadership opportunity, as an 8b Principal Psychologist, to provide high-quality psychological care, develop innovate clinical pathways, and support staff and service users within a 14-25 community Youth Mental Health Team covering the beautiful Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.
The role will involve working alongside a diverse multi-professional team, providing clinical oversight of the psychological therapies offered within the team and offering direct clinical supervision to the 8a Clinical Psychologist.
The team strives to be dynamic and creative and are dedicated to providing a needs-led approach to improve the lives of children and young people by providing a mental health service to be proud of. It is a service that shows compassion, kindness and hope at a time when families need it most. The team can support hybrid and flexible working patterns to ensure a balanced and healthy work life.
Clinical Leadership: Provide strategic clinical leadership across a community youth mental health team for young people between the age of 14 and 25, ensuring high standards of psychological care.
Service Development: Expanding access to psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions, enhancing collaboration, treatment choice, and effectiveness.
Supervision & Line Management: Offer supervision / line management to psychological professionals and trainees, fostering a culture of learning and excellence within the service.
Training & Development: Supporting and where appropriate implementing and delivering training to embed psychologically informed practices within the multidisciplinary team, supporting a stepped care model of psychological care.
Staff Wellbeing & Resilience: Promote staff wellbeing by leading reflective supervision and post-incident support enhancing resilience and retention in challenging environments.
Clinical Practice: Maintain a clinical caseload, delivering high-quality, comprehensive psychological assessment and interventions for complex clients within the service.
Service User Engagement: Lead co-produced service development, empowering service users to actively shape psychological services through meaningful collaboration.
Innovation & Research: Collaborate with local universities to support teaching, supervise doctoral trainees. Contribute to research and quality improvement initiatives.
This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one-off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment.
Please note the recruitment premium is for external applicants only. Not applicable to newly qualified nurses.
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