Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
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Job overview
Are you an existing Assistant Psychologist looking for a new challenge? Or an aspiring Psychologist seeking your first Assistant role? If you have the passion, drive, and commitment towards providing the very best psychological support to our Children, Young People, and Families, we would love for you to come and join us in Suffolk Specialist CAMHS
We're seeking two pro-active, passionate, and motivated Assistant Psychologists to join our well-established and thriving East Suffolk CAMHS team based in Ipswich. Our service provides highly specialist mental health treatment to children and young people up to the age of 18 years old; experiencing moderate to severe mental health disorders.
We appreciate that as part of developing the skills and experience required to take the next steps to clinical training, our Assistant Psychologists value a range of experiences. Within our Suffolk Children, Young People and Families (CFYP) care group, we support our Assistant Psychologists to gain experience working within and across our core secondary Mental Health services. Positions will be based within CAMHS, with potential opportunities to become involved in clinical and project work within our Young Adult Mental Health Service (YAMHS) which serves the 18 – 25-year-old age range.
Main duties of the job
JOB OVERVIEW
Please see attached job specification and recruitment letter. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the nominated Specialist CAMHS service, and where appropriate YAMHS service, to in summary:
* Support the overall psychological care and treatment of children, young people and families within the service.
* Provide psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist; including the use of specialist psychometric assessments.
* Under supervision, to deliver brief psychological interventions.
* Support the qualified Clinical Psychologist in the development and delivery of workshops and training packages.
* Participate in audit, research, service evaluation, and project activities.
The successful candidate will need to have a BPS accredited MSc in Psychology.
If you have the drive to provide excellent care, the ambition to develop high quality clinical skills, and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to young people's lives then we would love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* A BPS accredited degree in Psychology
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of quantitative research
Desirable criteria
* Experience of research in the NHS.
* Experience of working with children, young peoples and families
Skills
Essential criteria
* Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
Desirable criteria
* Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and colleagues. Presentation Skills.
Other
Essential criteria
* An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
* An ability to interact with clients with mental health Application Form / Interview / Document Check Page | 8 Generic 2016 problems.
* Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at
* Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
* Ability to travel independently.
Desirable criteria
* An ability to apply existing knowledge to a mental health context
YOUR APPLICATION
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post may be 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.
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Applicant requirements
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.