Clinical Associate in Psychology

We have a post available for a qualified Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP) to join our CMHT for adults with mental health difficulties.

You will work closely with the existing psychology team (including 3 clinical psychologists, another CAP, and an assistant psychologist) as well as the wider multidisciplinary team.

The post covers the geographical area of West Suffolk, based in Newmarket and covering the parts of Bury St Edmunds, Thetford and surrounding areas

If you have completed your CAP training with an adult populations and enjoy working with complexity and delivering psychologically informed individual and group interventions, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Associate Psychologist, your duties could include:

Undertaking appropriate clinical work under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist, including the provision of psychological assessment, formulation, individual and group interventions.

Active participation in multidisciplinary team meetings, case discussion and formulation meetings.

Involvement in development of policies and project work in collaboration with appropriate team colleagues, including the development of our current psychologically informed service offers.

Data gathering for audit and research purposes link.

Training and consultation.

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 responsibilities

The successful applicant will join our professional and friendly multidisciplinary team, where psychological interventions and consultation are highly valued.

The team consists of nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, occupational therapists, peer support workers, assistant practitioners, support workers and administration colleagues. Staff in training, including trainee clinical psychologists, are hosted on placements.

The post holder will need to be confident in completing assessments, running groups and delivering mental health interventions in person. They will also be required to support and work collaboratively with our colleagues within the CMHT along with and the other organisations and allied teams in our Locality.

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:

- 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

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Masters in Clinical Associate in Psychology
- Registered on the BPS Wider Psychological Workforce register as an Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP)

Experience

- Relevant supervised experience of delivering psychological assessments and interventions in adult mental health settings
- Experience of working in a setting with service users presenting with moderate to severe mental health difficulties

Other

- Awareness of their own competence and expertise and work within those boundaries.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team

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.

#J-18808-Ljbffr