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.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
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.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
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We are building an exciting new team to work on sleep and youth mental health in Norfolk and Waveney and are looking for an Assistant Psychologist to join us.
We have an ambitious plan to train mental health practitioners across the wider mental health system either to deliver a specific sleep intervention (The Better Sleep Programme) or to increase awareness of the role of sleep in youth mental health. Our aim is to ensure young people can access to effective help with sleep as early as possible. Excitingly, we will also be looking to work alongside clinical colleagues to support them in developing adaptations to the intervention that will help more specialist clinical populations benefit from help with their sleep. In addition to all of this, we have great links with colleagues at UEA and are keen to support more research in this area.
The post offers a rare opportunity to develop clinical skills in a specialist area alongside developing practical research and service evaluation skills working as part of a wider service implementation project. The role will involve liaising with clinicians from multiple teams across the wider youth mental health system, offering the post-holder a detailed understanding of the wider context of mental health provision. We have strong links with UEA and are hoping to host both service-related projects and DClinPsy theses which the post-holder would be able to support. Regular clinical supervision will be provided by a clinical psychologist.
The post-holder will support the psychologists/psychotherapists in the programme team in delivering training days, workshops and supervision groups (mostly online). They will provide peer support to trained practitioners starting to use the intervention and will be liaising with service user groups to promote service user involvement in the programme.
They will be providing support to specific adaptation projects in more specialist clinical populations such as young people in crisis or those with neurodevelopmental or learning difficulties by carrying out literature reviews, developing modified resources and supporting the evaluation of any adapted sleep interventions.
They will support the overall evaluation of the programme as we report on implementation and clinical outcomes and will have the opportunity to be involved in specific service evaluation and research studies.
The ideal candidate would have previous experience of working in mental health services, an interest in sleep (specialist training provided), a compassionate, respectful and inclusive stance toward service users and professional colleagues and an interest and skills in clinical research.
The post is remotely based with an in-person meeting in Norwich each month and the delivery of some in-person workshops in the Norfolk and Waveney region.
We are a small, newly-formed, friendly and psychologically-minded team. We aim to combine the flexibility of working remotely with a strong team ethos and really value our monthly in-person meetings. We are committed to developing and sharing our expertise in sleep and empowering others to take these ideas forward to improve their service offer.
The rest of the team comprises a principal clinical psychologist (project lead), clinical psychologist/psychotherapist, assistant psychologists and a senior administrator. The post therefore comprises a core element of the team staff.
We pride ourselves on using evidence-based practice in our work and on collecting outcome data to generate our own practice-based evidence in order to promote learning, development and wider dissemination. We are part of the Children, Families and Young People’s care group in NSFT and will be working with services working with young people (aged 14 to 25 years) both within NSFT and across the wider, integrated care system. We value learning in practice and are keen to include service-user perspectives more as we develop the project. We also have strong links with sleep research colleagues at UEA and are keen to support further learning and research on sleep and youth mental health.
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.
Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Two Ticks - Guaranteed Interview Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.