Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 839-7358764-BM
- Employer
- Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Norwich Community Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 (pro rata, per annum)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/09/2025
Employer heading
Clinical or Practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
NCH&C is proud to be the first standalone NHS community trust in the UK to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our focus is on continually improving the quality of care we offer to local people and on improving access to that care, helping people to move seamlessly from one service to another. Praising NCH&C’s “compassionate, inclusive and effective leadership at all levels”, the CQC observed that our staff are well supported to make positive changes and innovations.
Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust is committed to continuing to create a modern and inclusive work environment. As part of this commitment we actively promote flexible working opportunities where possible, to meet the needs and wishes of our workforce to maintain and improve their wellbeing. The trust offers a range of flexibility, including flexible working patterns, and we would encourage you to discuss this with the recruiting manager before or during the application process if this would interest you.
We welcome applications from people who share our values and can help us deliver outstanding care in our local community.
Job overview
We are seeking a compassionate, innovative, and enthusiastic Band 8a Clinical or Practitioner Psychologist to join our ‘Outstanding’ community Children’s and Young People’s Specialist services. You would be joining a friendly and supportive highly specialist multidisciplinary team and would be involved in shaping psychological provision within our Learning Disability Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (Starfish).
The post is 18.75 hours per week, and will be across Norfolk; including Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth and Norwich. Bases are negotiable and flexible working is supported and includes agile/home working where relevant.
The Starfish Team offers assessment and intervention for young people of school age (4-18 years) with a diagnosed learning disability who are experiencing significant behavioural and/or mental health difficulties.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be varied and will include a range of assessment, formulation, and intervention. This will include direct and indirect work with the children and young people that we support, as well as their families and the professional networks involved in their care.
Your role will include bringing a psychologically informed perspective through consultation to the clinical team and external agencies. There will be opportunities to contribute to the supervision, teaching and training of psychological practitioners and other professionals within the team.
You will utilise your research skills for audit, policy and service development, and dissemination of appropriate research evidence. Further involvement in research can also be supported where appropriate to the needs of the service.
Our supportive teams value innovation, foster development and are committed to improving the lives of the children and young people we work with. There will be the opportunity to liaise with other Psychologists working within the Trust. The Psychology Team within NCH&C offers excellent opportunities for CPD, research and teaching as well as close links with the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology at the University of East Anglia.
Working for our organisation
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Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
We would love to hear from candidates who have a passion for working with children and young people with Learning Disabilities. We strongly encourage informal visits and discussion prior to application and have allocated slots for prospective applicants to book into in order to discuss the roles and answer any questions. Please contact the Starfish Team, [email protected], for more information.
Clinical Contacts:
Dr Lorna Christoforou-Hazelwood, Clinical Psychologist, [email protected], 01603 272319
Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attachments to view job descriptions for both Psychologist roles - Clinical Psychologist JD and Practitioner Psychologist JD.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good honours degree in Psychology.
- Graduate membership of BPS.
- Post-graduate doctorate in relevant Psychology field, accredited by the BPS.
- Training in the supervision of clinical psychologists
- Registration or application to register with Health and Care Professions Council.
Desirable criteria
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level.
- Application for Chartered status made to British Psychological Society.
- Training in diagnostic assessment of Autistic Spectrum Disorders e.g. DISCO, ADOS & ADI).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of children and young people across a range of care settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of exercising full responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Working with client group either during or prior to training.
- Further training within designated specialty.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Record of having published in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience in the processes for safeguarding vulnerable children.
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- High level (doctoral) skills in: communication; teaching; supervision; analysis and formulation and research methodology.
- An identified area of specialist knowledge within designated specialty.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and implications for clinical practice.
- Ability to manage own work timetable.
- Ability to participate in supervision.
- Ability to resolve difficult interpersonal situations.
- Ability to manage stress generated by work/work environment.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to children and their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Good understanding of other professionals’ theoretical perspectives of children and young people.
Desirable criteria
- Specialised training/knowledge.
- Advanced keyboard skills.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in children with learning disabilities and severely challenging behaviours and childhood mental health problems.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and The Children’s Act 2004.
Communication
Essential criteria
- Communicate effectively, share information and check understanding using clear language and appropriate, written materials, making reasonable adjustments where appropriate in order to optimise people’s understanding.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working.
- Excellent verbal and written skills.
- Computer literate.
Personal and People Development
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written skills.
- Skilled in continuous self-reflection, seeking and responding to support and feedback to develop professional knowledge and skills.
- Ability to manage independent clinics and own timetable.
- Able to contain and work with organisational stress.
- Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult situations.
- Motivated towards personal and professional development with a strong CPD record.
Personal Attributes / Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Works to professional guidelines.
- Accountable for own professional actions.
- Must work within professional ethics and NCH&C’s policies.
- Highly motivated with respect to developing clinical and academic skills.
- Able to identify with the Trust’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to make own travelling arrangements.
- Able to speak English Language.
- Enhanced CRB check.
- To implement Norfolk Steps physical interventions.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Starfish
- Job title
- Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 272319
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