Clinical Psychologist

Clinical Psychologist - Adult Eating Disorders Service

Are you:

• Feeling passionate about improving the wellbeing and lives of people with eating disorders?
• Seeking to develop specialist skills to assess, formulate and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions for this client group?
• Interested in supporting and empowering the wider team?

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) Suffolk Community Adult Eating Disorders Service are looking for a suitably experiencedClinical Psychologistwith a desire to develop their specialist skills in eating disorders.

We are passionate about service improvement and taking our clinical practice to a level of excellence - and we would like you to be part of this!

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting job role which will afford you the opportunity to offer specialist psychological input within a team, and help us enhance our clinical support and practice to the community that we serve. You will be a valued part of the multi-disciplinary team working within the county-wide Suffolk Adult Eating Disorders Service with bases in Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.

As the successful candidate you will be directly delivering a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and families, as well as providing psychological consultation to the wider care system, including acute hospital trusts and other secondary care mental health services. You will be supported to fulfil this specialist role through training and regular supervision by the Principal Clinical Psychologist. We are eager for you to play a key part in the transformation and development of our service.

You will be skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, and have the ability to communicate highly complex information in a sensitive and compassionate manner.

About us

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive. In addition to consolidating our NICE-recommended treatment offer, we also welcome innovative treatment approaches to delivering eating disorder care. We will support you to access relevant specialist training and contribute to treatment evaluation.

Recognising the value of our psychological workforce, you will be part of a psychology-led care group, which is currently offering a competitive recruitment incentive.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• 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)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will have experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.

You will be skills in use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management and possess well developed communication skills. You will be working closely with the already established psychological workforce in the service, as well as the senior leadership teams.

We would welcome informal visits or phone calls, please do not hesitate to contact to arrange!

For full details of your responsibilities, please see attached job description.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses
• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
• 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 of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post

Skills

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS.

Knowledge

• Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
• Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical service-user groups.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£55,690 to £62,682 a yeargross per annum pro rata