About this role
Job summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Clinical Psychologist to join the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) in King's Lynn covering the West Norfolk Locality. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a well-established service supporting older adults with a broad range of psychological, emotional, and cognitive difficulties. The role offers experience across both functional mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, psychosis and complex emotional presentations, as well as organic conditions, including dementia and related neurocognitive disorders.
We are keen to attract applicants with a strong interest in older adult mental health and welcome applications from newly qualified Clinical Psychologists through a structured Band 7 to Band 8a preceptorship pathway.
Our Service
The West Norfolk Older Adults CMHT provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary assessment and intervention for older adults experiencing a wide range of mental health difficulties. The team works closely with service users, families, carers, primary care colleagues and wider health and social care partners to deliver person-centred, psychologically informed care.
Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Psychologist within the West Norfolk Older Adults Community Mental Health Team, you will:
Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for older adults presenting with a wide range of functional and organic mental health difficulties. Deliver evidence-based psychological interventions to individuals, families and carers, drawing upon your specialist training and expertise. Work collaboratively with service users, carers, multidisciplinary colleagues and partner agencies to support recovery, wellbeing and quality of life. Provide psychological consultation, advice and formulation to multidisciplinary team colleagues working with complex presentations. Contribute to multidisciplinary assessment, care planning, risk management and decision-making processes. Undertake work with older adults experiencing cognitive impairment and dementia, including supporting carers and systems around the individual. Provide teaching, training and clinical supervision to colleagues, assistants, trainees and other professionals where appropriate. Support psychologically informed approaches within community, residential and inpatient settings as required. Contribute to service development, quality improvement, audit, research and evaluation initiatives. Support the ongoing development of psychologically informed practice across the Older Adults Service.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
This role provides opportunities to work across the full spectrum of older adult mental health, including:
Functional mental health difficulties such as depression, anxiety, psychosis and complex presentations. Organic conditions including dementia and cognitive impairment. Capacity, risk and safeguarding work. Family and systemic interventions. Consultation and support to multidisciplinary colleagues and care settings. Service development and quality improvement initiative
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!
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS Registered as a practitioner psychologist (or eligible to become registered) with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Experience Essential
Experience working as a either qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) or a trainee Clinical Psychologist (band 6) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist Experience of working with older adults in previous roles or through clinical placements Experience of supervision and teaching.
Knowledge Essential
Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address Chatterton House
Goodwins Road
Kings Lynn
PE30 5PD
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)