Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term - maternity cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (one of the working days to be Wednesdays.)
- Job ref
- 246-ESU7455364
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Murrayside Youth and Community Centre
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 gross per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling 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
The Suffolk Therapeutic fostering team provides a county wide therapeutic support service to Suffolk foster carers. Alongside you there is a Lead Clinical Psychologist who will offer clinical support and advice to the team, other professionals and to foster carers as well as developing and delivering therapeutic courses and training days. You can expect to be an integral part of this multi-agency team working with social workers, course trainers and facilitators, and other family support practitioners and contribute to the therapeutic relationship between carers, children, and professionals. The team are a busy, friendly, and highly supportive team with lots of creativity and passion in the work we do to support children and families.
Main duties of the job
Exciting and Unique opportunity to work alongside adults, social workers and children in care in a variety of ways! Do you have skills in working with systems, in considering models of developmental trauma, attachment and therapeutic parenting? Do you like a varied role in which you work as a team and contribute broadly across systems and organisations? We are looking for a passionate individual who loves to work creatively with children and their families and networks around them.
2 days per week you will join the Suffolk Therapeutic Fostering team (STF) of multi-professionals providing training and consultations to foster carers in Suffolk. You will contribute to this busy team by supporting and training foster carers and Social Workers in therapeutic parenting techniques and sharing insights from up to date literature on areas such as Developmental Trauma and early attachment difficulties, contributing to the prevention of placement breakdowns in Foster care. You will provide Clinical supervision to some of the STF team and be part of the group training service offer. It is preferred that one of the days is a Wednesday as this is the day the whole team come together at their base in Saxon House, Hadleigh Road industrial estate, Ipswich.
Working for our organisation
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.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive. In addition to consolidating our NICE-recommended treatment offer, we also welcome innovative treatment approaches to delivering eating disorder care. We will support you to access relevant specialist training and contribute to treatment evaluation.
Recognising the value of our psychological workforce, you will be part of a psychology-led care group, which is currently offering a competitive recruitment incentive.
Benefits included with this role are:-
- 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will have experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
You will be skills in use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management and possess well developed communication skills. You will be working closely with the already established psychological workforce in the service, as well as the senior leadership teams.
We would welcome informal visits or phone calls, please do not hesitate to contact to arrange!
For full details of your responsibilities, please see attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of mental health practice with children, young people and families
- • Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience of multi disciplinary working
Desirable criteria
- - Experience of working with care experienced children and young people
- - Experience of assessing and managing risk with children and young people
- - Experience of working within Social Care systems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Skills in training and supervision. Skills in creating and delivering presentations and training programmes
- Skills in neuropsychological assessment.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
- Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical service-user groups
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Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff
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
- Dr Jessica Austin
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07785 515626
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