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Principal Clinical Psychologist
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.
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Role
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.
As an employer, I and Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust are particularly committed to enabling our staff to do the very best they can through support and training, as well as opportunities for progression. We are confident, therefore, that the right candidate will have a real chance to make a positive impact to the lives of young people in Norfolk.
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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.
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.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Roger Kingerlee
- Job title: Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: Roger.Kingerlee@nsft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01953 611000
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