Job overview

Passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people?  We are excited to be recruiting one Assistant Psychologist to the Suffolk Mental Health Support Team (MHST).  The MHST is based within education settings, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support through direct work with children, young people and families and Whole School/College Approach methods. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering and evaluating this service. We are a dynamic mental health team working in a creative environment:  Suffolk has had MHSTs since 2020 and have expanded considerably in the past five years. You will need to be adaptable and have a passion for working with children and young people in education settings. This is an exciting role in the MHST which you will be able to contribute to the development of.

Main duties of the job

MHSTs provide targeted and evidence-based interventions to support the management of mild to moderate mental health needs.  As an Assistant Psychologist in the team, you will support:

• assessment, formulation and intervention with children, young people and their families and the education setting community
• the team to provide group intervention programmes
• with the research and evaluation that is critical to the team’s development
• with developing psychological resources used by the team

You will work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals, will utilise regular supervision sessions, reflective practice and training opportunities in the team to develop your practice and ensure a high level of clinical support is provided.

We have several teams across the county. The successful candidate will primarily support the teams in the East of Suffolk. 

Interviews will take place in mid-September 2025.

Working for our organisation

A job in the Suffolk MHSTs will inevitably be challenging and demanding at times, but it will also be immensely rewarding and provide you with great opportunities to make a genuine difference to the lives of others. You will join a team that has developed a caring, creative and hard-working environment; your ideas about how this new service continues to develop and grow will be highly valued.

NSFT

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.