Principal Clinical Psychologist

Integrated Care System; Great Yarmouth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare organization in Great Yarmouth is seeking a skilled Clinical Psychologist to lead youth mental health services for ages 14-25. The role emphasizes strategic clinical leadership, training, and direct supervision of clinical staff while fostering a needs-led mental health service. The position offers competitive benefits, including a £3,000 recruitment premium and support for hybrid working. Applicants should be HCPC registered and possess significant clinical experience.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression opportunities

Generous annual leave starting at 27 days

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in specialized areas.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic clinical leadership across a community youth mental health team.
• Maintain a clinical caseload, delivering high-quality psychological assessment.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Communication skills

Complex intervention methods

Cultural application of psychology

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC

Job description

Are you a skilled and experiencedClinical Psychologistlooking to lead and shape psychological services? This role offers an exciting leadership opportunity, as an 8b Principal Psychologist, to provide high-quality psychological care, develop innovate clinical pathways, and support staff and service users within a 14-25 community Youth Mental Health Team covering the beautiful Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.

The role will involve working alongside a diverse multi-professional team, providing clinical oversight of the psychological therapies offered within the team and offering direct clinical supervision to the 8a Clinical Psychologist.

The team strives to be dynamic and creative and are dedicated to providing a needs-led approach to improve the lives of children and young people by providing a mental health service to be proud of. It is a service that shows compassion, kindness and hope at a time when families need it most. The team can support hybrid and flexible working patterns to ensure a balanced and healthy work life.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Leadership: Provide strategic clinical leadership across a community youth mental health team for young people between the age of 14 and 25, ensuring high standards of psychological care.

Service Development: Expanding access to psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions, enhancing collaboration, treatment choice, and effectiveness.

Supervision & Line Management: Offer supervision / line management to psychological professionals and trainees, fostering a culture of learning and excellence within the service.

Training & Development: Supporting and where appropriate implementing and delivering training to embed psychologically informed practices within the multidisciplinary team, supporting a stepped care model of psychological care.

Staff Wellbeing & Resilience: Promote staff wellbeing by leading reflective supervision and post-incident support enhancing resilience and retention in challenging environments.

Clinical Practice: Maintain a clinical caseload, delivering high-quality, comprehensive psychological assessment and interventions for complex clients within the service.

Service User Engagement: Lead co-produced service development, empowering service users to actively shape psychological services through meaningful collaboration.

Innovation & Research: Collaborate with local universities to support teaching, supervise doctoral trainees. Contribute to research and quality improvement initiatives.

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

This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one-off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment.

Please note the recruitment premium is for external applicants only. Not applicable to newly qualified nurses.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
• Further post qualification, postgraduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

• Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
• Application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training

Skills

• Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Assessment, evaluation and management of risk associated with mental ill health and related psychopathology
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS

Knowledge

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
• Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS

other

• Capacity to exercise careful clinical judgement whilst having the ability to work with and to hold the stress of others in the work setting
• Able to identify, and employ appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
• Ability to travel independently

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.