Clinical Psychologist

Transformationunitgm; Norwich; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a) to join their Psychology team. The role involves delivering Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and clinical supervision, providing vital support to service users with complex emotional needs. The Trust values diversity and aims to reflect the local community within its workforce.

Qualifications

• Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
• Ability to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologists.
• Experience with a wide variety of client groups.

Responsibilities

• Deliver DBT and DBT-informed interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision to trainees.
• Consult and train MDT team members.

Skills

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

Clinical supervision

Complex emotional needs

Education

Post-graduate degree in clinical psychology

HCPC registration

Further specialist training

Job description

Employer Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Peddars Centre, Hellesdon Hospital Town Norwich Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/06/2025 23:59

Clinical 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

YOUR APPLICATION

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Job overview

This role involves working in a friendly Psychology team which provides a broad range of psychological services. The North CMHT has a growing psychology and therapy team and you will work under the supervision of experienced colleagues.

This post provides a real opportunity to be involved in service delivery that puts the people who use our services at the very heart of them.

We welcome informal queries should you wish to explore whether this is the post for you.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will deliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and DBT-informed interventions to service users accessing our complex emotional needs, personality and trauma pathway in the CMHTs, as well as clinical supervision. You will also help the broader MDT team with consultation and training as necessary.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details regarding job description and main responsibilities.

Person specification

• Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the postholder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
• Experience of working with a wide variety and severity of client groups and clinical problems, in various settings.
• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting and of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
• Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and /or therapies)

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.

The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £16 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.