Clinical Psychologist

Would you like to be paid to drive around the glorious Suffolk Countryside?! Come and join our West Suffolk Older People’s (WSOP) Community Mental Health Team based in Newmarket.

We are looking to appoint an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist who has experience of working with Older People, as well as having the warmth, compassion and vitality to match our lovely team. We are keen to appoint applicants who bring a diversity of life experiences to our teams.

This post is for a Clinical Psychologistwithin in many ways the team is a traditional multidisciplinary service, providing very much needed access to assessments and interventions for some of our more distressed community members, however it delivers within a modern pathway of mental health provision flexing with newer alliance partners and primary care offers as part of the overall Community Mental Health Transformation plan, as well as providing a range of up-to-date interventions in line with NICE and HEE expectations. This role stands apart from others due to the role-development which can be guided by the successful candidate. It is available as 0.8 wte.

You will of course have a special interest in and a passionfor working with older people; advocating compassionately to ensure their needs are met equitably. You will need to be able to apply skills and expertise in clinical, risk and neuropsychological assessments to collaboratively develop formulations and care plans and provide guidance and consultation to the MDT and other agencies. You will be able to hold a range of related issues in mind when creating your formulations; possibly including complex physical health challenges, cognitive impairments such as dementia, complex systemic issues as well as resilience and strengths.

In addition to the direct clinical work, you will facilitate carer support groups, reflective practice and team formulation approaches to support staff wellbeing and promote psychological and neuropsychological understanding of complex cases and behaviour's that challenge.

For many years our Older People’s services have been rated by CQC as “Good”, and we are very keen to maintain high standards in Older People’s services. We value nurturing and supporting our staff to develop their career, to maximise their expertise whilst strategically meeting the needs of the community we serve. We have been successful in our bids for training from HEE; receiving training places in Behavioural Family Therapy, Eating Disorders, Clinical Neuropsychology, Psychosis and Bipolar, and CBT for Personality Disorders.

There are opportunities for involvement in research in collaboration with University of East Anglia and University of Maastricht.

Benefits included with this role are:

• 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.

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!

Interviews are to be confirmed, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days’ notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change.

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You will hold the psychological expertise for the Community team; providing a consistent and reliable clinical presence that colleagues can turn to for both clinical reflection as well as informal support. This will include attendance at the weekly MDT, and at relevant Trust-wide meetings to maintain clear channels of communication. You will play a key role in delivering the psychologically-informed objectives of NSFT to the clinical coalface, directly through your own clinical work, and indirectly supporting colleagues with their delivery of psychologically-informed interventions. You will have oversight of the psychological work being delivered within the team ensuring that interventions are consistent with both NICE guidelines and best practice; as recommended by our key drivers of excellence such as the Faculty of Psychology for Older People (FPOP).

You will have a role in our supervision structure which spans all of the five WSOP clinical pathways, and deliver group/individual supervision as needed. You will receive regular clinical supervision with psychology peers, as well as specialist Neuropsychology supervision. The service has strong links with the DClinPsy Training Program at UEA and regularly provides clinical placements, as well as opportunities to supervise our Trainee Medic colleagues with their therapy cases. You will join colleagues in WSOP with additional training in CFT, CAT, CBT, Behavioural Family Therapy and Neuropsychology.