8b Clinical/Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

NHS; Norwich; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a 0.6wte clinical psychologist to lead the male inpatient pathway at Hellesdon Hospital. You will join a dynamic team, providing clinical leadership and support to enhance psychological management for service users. This role promises a rewarding work environment with opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Ongoing training and development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Post-Graduate Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic Psychology required.
• Experience working in acute or forensic settings.
• Extensive experience with severe mental health difficulties.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the male inpatient pathway.
• Ensure adherence to evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment.
• Supervise and provide line management to the psychology team.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Psychological assessment

Team management

Evidence-based practice

Complex client management

Education

Post-Graduate Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology

Post Graduate qualification in psychological therapy

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 0.6wte 8b clinical/counselling/forensic psychologist to provide clinical leadership to the male inpatient pathway at Hellesdon Hospital, which comprises of two wards and a total of 33 beds. You will be joining our well-established psychology team working across the largest acute service in NSFT that comprises of five inpatients wards, 3 of which are part of the new build, and a crisis resolution home treatment team; there is also likely to be one more ward opening by the end of this year.

Within the role you will be helping to provide psychological clinical leadership, regarding MDT decision making, risk management and reduction in restrictive interventions. You will work closely with our multi-disciplinary team colleagues, helping to inform and engage the teams in more psychological ways of thinking and formulating our service users. You will work alongside other psychology colleagues to aid smooth transition and coherent treatment/management plans for service users across the inpatient service line and back into wider community services.

You will provide supervision and line management to other members of the psychology team within the male pathway that includes a full time 8a clinical psychologist, B7 art therapist and assistant psychologist. This will include ensuring adherence to evidence base practice, outcome measures and audit data.

Main duties of the job

The work is challenging, fast paced and rewarding; our psychology team come with a range of specialist interests and therapy expertise and have strong links to the UEA doctorate course. There will be the opportunity for training and development as part of the role.

- Ensuring the provision of evidence based psychological assessment and treatment across the male inpatient wards.

- Providing specialist assessment and formulation of complex clients to help aid clinical decision making re diagnosis, management of risk and treatment pathways.

- Working closely with the wider MDT as well as community services involved, to provide clinical leadership in order to enhance psychological thinking and promotion of psychological formulation to facilitate optimal patient care and promote best practice guidelines.

- Working with families and carers where appropriate, particularly on complex cases where the system may feel quite 'stuck'.

- Provision of line management and clinical supervision to other clinicians within the inpatient psychology team.

- Working alongside the Associate Director of Psychology to help contribute to local and trust level service development and initiatives where appropriate.

About us

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.

Details Date posted

05 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year Per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-CEN7212707

Job locations

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Road

Norwich

NR6 5BE

Job description Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

We would be very pleased to talk to you about the post. For more information please contact Jamie Durrance, Associate Director of Psychology on 07557744742 or [e-mail]

Job description Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

We would be very pleased to talk to you about the post. For more information please contact Jamie Durrance, Associate Director of Psychology on 07557744742 or [e-mail]

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Post-Graduate Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology
• Post Graduate qualification or training in a specific psychological therapy e.g. CAT, CBT, DBT

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD training in supervision of others
• Evidence of CPD training in clinical leadership
• Evidence of CPD training in a specialism relevant to the clinical role

Relevant Experience Essential

• Relevant experience working in an inpatient setting (acute or forensic)
• Evidence of extensive experience working with adult service users presenting with severe and complex MH difficulties
• Extensive experience working as a qualified psychologist (ideally 4 yrs+)

Desirable

• Experience of working in an acute adult MH setting such as inpatient, CRHT or Psychiatric Liaison
• Experience providing line management to junior colleagues within a team
• Experience supervising others including trainee clinical psychologists
• Evidence of well developed theory and practice of working with complex clients using a range of psychological therapies
• Evidence of providing training to other staff

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Post-Graduate Doctorate in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology
• Post Graduate qualification or training in a specific psychological therapy e.g. CAT, CBT, DBT

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD training in supervision of others
• Evidence of CPD training in clinical leadership
• Evidence of CPD training in a specialism relevant to the clinical role

Relevant Experience Essential

• Relevant experience working in an inpatient setting (acute or forensic)
• Evidence of extensive experience working with adult service users presenting with severe and complex MH difficulties
• Extensive experience working as a qualified psychologist (ideally 4 yrs+)

Desirable

• Experience of working in an acute adult MH setting such as inpatient, CRHT or Psychiatric Liaison
• Experience providing line management to junior colleagues within a team
• Experience supervising others including trainee clinical psychologists
• Evidence of well developed theory and practice of working with complex clients using a range of psychological therapies
• Evidence of providing training to other staff

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Road

Norwich

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Road

Norwich

NR6 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)