Principle Clinical Psychologist

Are you a skilled and experiencedClinical Psychologist looking to lead and shape psychological services? This role offers an exciting leadership opportunity, as an 8b Principal Psychologist, to provide high-quality psychological care, develop innovate clinical pathways, and support staff and service users within the Norfolk Early Intervention in Psychosis Service.

The role will involve working alongside a diverse multi-professional team, providing clinical oversight of the psychological therapies offered within the team and offering direct clinical supervision to the 8a Clinical Psychologists and Systemic Family Therapists.

The Norfolk Early Intervention in Psychosis Service is a county-wide service with five distinct teams, four of which are Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams and one At Risk Mental State team (TIDES). Each team has a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, CBTp Therapists and Assistant Psychologists embedded within them.

The EIP teams are based at Northgate Hospital in Great Yarmouth, Chatterton House in Kings Lynn and the remaining two are at Unthank Road in Norwich. TIDES are currently based on the Hellesdon Hospital site and cover the county. Whilst your main base will be in Norwich, you will need to travel to each of the base sites periodically to provide support, supervision and clinical oversight to each team., You will take a lead role for Psychology within the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, working to develop psychological provision for service users under the care of the service, through service development and the recruitment of psychology staff, and to provide professional management, support, guidance and clinical supervision to psychology staff within the service; as well as supporting the psychological thinking and interventions of non-psychology staff.

You will be an integral part of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, who work with service users with a diagnosis of, or who may be developing, a First Episode of Psychosis, and who often present with complex mental health, social and relational difficulties. You will be expected to contribute fully, as an autonomous clinician, offering highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation to individuals and families, as well as offering specialist advice and consultation to the team and other professionals.

You will be responsible for maintaining accurate and up to date records of your clinical activity and for collecting statistics relating to your work; and taking a lead role in developing audits, research and service evaluation activity.

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.