Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist West Suffolk

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Bury St Edmunds seeks a Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist to join the West Suffolk Specialist CAMHS team. This role involves providing specialized psychological care to children and young people, with opportunities for clinical supervision and career progression. The ideal candidate will have a post-graduate degree in clinical psychology and experience in treating complex mental health issues. Competitive benefits including a generous leave policy and training opportunities are offered.

Benefits

Comprehensive in-house & external training programmes

Career progression opportunities

27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 based on service

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Qualified clinical psychologist with experience in practice.
• Ability to supervise trainee clinical psychologists.
• Experience in working with challenging behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Undertake complex assessments and develop treatment plans.
• Provide evidence-based interventions for young people.
• Support in the development of Clinical Psychology services.

Skills

Experience with complex mental health presentations

Clinical supervision

Research design and complex multivariate data analysis

Education

Post-graduate degree in clinical psychology

Registered practitioner psychologist (HCPC)

Job description

Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist - West Suffolk Specialist

Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist - West Suffolk Specialist CAMHS

Are you a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist or a band 7 Clinical Psychologist seeking progression? Or an existing 8A Clinical Psychologist ready for a new challenge? We would love for you to come and join us in the West Suffolk Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service!

We're looking for a proactive, passionate, and motivated7/8A Clinical Psychologist to join our West Suffolk CAMHS team based in Bury St. Edmunds. Our service provides highly specialist mental health treatment for children, young people, and their families. As a team, we are committed to developing the best possible service for the young people we work with. We have a thriving psychology group within the CAMHS team including clinical psychologists, CBT, DBT, and systemic family therapists, and assistant psychologists led by experienced 8B principal clinical psychologists and well-supported by the Associate Director of Psychology.

We would welcome applications from newly/soon to be qualified clinical psychologists looking for a post with scope for progression. We are keen to offer training opportunities and support our staff to develop through a range of exciting internal and external CPD opportunities.

We are open to discussing full and part‑time working hours, and we understand everyone has commitments outside of work, so welcome conversations around flexible working options too.

Main duties of the job

If you have the drive to provide excellent care, can demonstrate high quality clinical and leadership skills and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to young people’s lives then we would love to hear from you.

Please see the attached recruitment letter for more details.

• Undertaking complex assessments of young adults and their systems, developing meaningful formulations and making highly skilled decisions which guide ongoing intervention options.
• Providing evidence‑based psychological interventions and treatment for young people with a wide range of mental health presentations.
• To confidently use neuropsychological tests and other psychometrics to assess and formulate cases and inform treatment with this information in mind.
• To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise, knowledge and guidance to the team, in order to provide psychologically based frameworks of understanding, and develop psychological mindedness more generally within the team.
• To undertake and contribute to complex risk assessment and management of complex cases within the pathway.
• To contribute to the development of a response and effective Clinical Psychology service within the team, including the use of consultation.
• To support the Principal Clinical Psychologist and Consultant Clinical Psychologist in wider transformation and service development work where required.

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.

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!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• 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)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• 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)

Experience

• 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 range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
• Experience of supervision and teaching.
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post

Knowledge

• Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.

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.

Depending on experience gross per annum/ pro rata