An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to join the multidisciplinary team providing services under supervision to our community forensic mental health team, based in Norwich but covering the county of Norfolk and occasionally Suffolk. The current post-holder is moving on to complete their forensic training.
Our secure services form part of a wide and growing body of clinical services operating in a variety of settings linked to criminal justice services. NSFT Secure Services offer low and medium secure mental health services for men, an innovative integrated secure mental health service for women, mental health and personality disorder services in the local prisons, community forensic services, criminal justice liaison and diversion services and Offender Personality Disorder services in partnership with probation services.
The post-holder will work alongside the qualified psychologist to assist in the delivery of psychological assessment and interventions to service users who are transitioning to, or who are living in the community, and under the umbrella of the wider, well-established NSFT Secure Services Psychology Team.
Within this community based role, you will have the opportunity to help deliver risk assessments, mental health assessments and brief psychological interventions to service users, as well as co-facilitating therapeutic group work.
As part of the MDT, you will be working with the team to help create and implement accessible psychological formulations and psychologically informed practice.
The post involves working with a range of mental health difficulties, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis, personality disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders. There will also be the opportunity to learn about offence specific assessments, formulations and interventions which are delivered by the team.
***Due to the nature of the role and the requirement to travel to multiple locations, some of which have limited public transport links, access to a car and the ability to travel independently are essential***
As a part of the wider NSFT Secure Services Psychology Team, the post-holder will receive regular clinical and management supervision, and also professional and governance support from within the team. Within NSFT Secure Services we employ a diverse and supportive team of psychologists, including clinical, counselling and forensic psychologists, and we are able offer our team members the opportunity to continue to develop their expertise via training and development opportunities in different parts of our service. We have an exceptional track record for supporting our Assistant Psychologists into further professional training, and have excellent links with the University of East Anglia.
