Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 246-GYW7791464
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northgate Hospital
- Town
- Great Yarmouth
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 gross per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
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.
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
Job overview
Are you a skilled and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist looking to support in leading and shaping psychological services within a 14-25 yrs Community Youth Mental Health Service?
This role offers an exciting opportunity for an 8a Psychologist to provide high-quality psychological care, develop innovate clinical pathways and support staff and service users covering the beautiful Great Yarmouth and Waveney area. Although advertised as an 8a role, newly qualified Clinical Psychologists will be considered, commencing as a Band 7 with support provided to complete preceptorship requirements to progress to an 8a.
The role will involve working alongside a diverse multi-professional team, providing a high quality specialist clinical psychology service for individuals with complex mental health presentations. A variety of NICE recommended psychological interventions are offered within the team including Cognitive Analytical Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy, Family Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. There will be ongoing training opportunities to support the successful candidate in their continued professional development.
The team strives to be dynamic and creative and are dedicated to providing a needs-led approach to improve the lives of children and young people by providing a mental health service to be proud of. It is a service that shows compassion, kindness and hope at a time when families need it most.
Main duties of the job
Clinical: Provision of specialist psychology assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for individuals, families and carers referred to the service. To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise, knowledge, advice, guidance and consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care.
Service Development: Supporting in access to up-to-date psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions, enhancing collaboration, treatment choice, and effectiveness.
Supervision & Line Management: Offer supervision to other professionals, Clinical Trainees and Assistant Psychologists within the team as appropriate, fostering a culture of learning and excellence within the service.
Training & Development: Supporting and where appropriate implementing and delivering training to embed psychologically informed practices within the multidisciplinary team, supporting a stepped care model of psychological care.
Staff Wellbeing & Resilience: Promote staff wellbeing by leading reflective supervision and post-incident support enhancing resilience and retention in challenging environments.
Service User Engagement: Support in co-produced service development, empowering service users to actively shape psychological services through meaningful collaboration.
Innovation & Research: Collaborate with local universities to support teaching, supervise doctoral trainees. Contribute to research and quality improvement initiatives.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Further post qualification, postgraduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) 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 a wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems, in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- • Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology
- • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
- • Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy
- • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
other
Essential criteria
- • Capacity to exercise careful clinical judgement whilst having the ability to work with and to hold the stress of others in the work setting
- • Able to identify, and employ appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
- • Ability to travel independently
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Trollope
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Psychology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01493 337738
- Additional information
Teresa Neil 01493 337738
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