Principal Psychologist

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Principal Psychologist to lead the Youth Mental Health Team. The role focuses on shaping clinical practice, supporting professionals, and advancing the Thrive model of service delivery to provide assessment and intervention across Norfolk and Waveney.

You will oversee service development, ensure clinical governance, and supervise a team including an 8a Principal Psychologist within a multidisciplinary framework, fostering development and

Qualifications

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS.
• Registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the systematic provision of high quality clinical psychology service input to clients of the relevant service.
• Supervise and support the psychological assessment, formulations and therapy provided by other psychologists and clinical team members.
• Lead on service development with regards to clinical need and provide clinical supervision.

Skills

Effective communication

Therapy assessment knowledge

Clinical supervision

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Doctoral training in clinical psychology

HCPC registration

CPD in specialised areas

Tools

MDT representation

Job description

Site Northgate Hospital Town Great Yarmouth Salary £66,582 - £77,368 gross per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 14/09/2026 23:59

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.

Please note due to the nature of our roles and patient demographic, you will be required to undertake physical intervention training and remain trained, as required by your role.

Job overview

Are you a Principal Psychologist who is interested in leading and shaping clinical practise within a multi-disciplinary service to better support young people experiencing adversity? Do you want to help create new and innovative ways of working psychologically?

If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join the Youth Mental Health Team, as the Clinical Lead. This team has adopted the Thrive model of service delivery to be able to offer training, consultation and support in assessment and intervention to professionals working with young people requiring mental health support across Norfolk and Waveney.

The team hold a small specialist assessment and intervention caseload and have close links with other members of the Family and Young Person (CFYP) Mental Health Team.

Main duties of the job

Recently secured funding has meant a growth in the workforce capacity and an expansion of the service offer. This is an exciting and dynamic time for an individual to join the existing leadership structure, working closely alongside the Youth Team to ensure continued service evaluation and development, best practice and robust clinical governance.

The advertised post holder will have clinical oversight of the service offer, taking a lead on service development with regards to clinical need. The post holder will offer clinical supervision to the 8a Principal Psychologist and will hold a small individual caseload as appropriate. The service has close links with the University of East Anglia and offers a specialist placement for Trainee Clinical Psychologists on the Doctorate programme.
We would like you to possess well developed specialist clinical, supervision and leadership skills, with particular depth of knowledge and experience in young person’s mental health and working successfully with families experiencing complex psychosocial difficulties.

Working for our organisation

At Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, inclusion is at the heart of how we work. We are committed to creating a fair, transparent and accessible recruitment process where every candidate has the opportunity to succeed.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, particularly those currently underrepresented in our workforce. We recognise that not everyone has equal access to opportunities and are working to address this.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and ensuring all candidates receive a positive and equitable experience.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ensure the systematic provision of high quality clinical psychology service input to clients of the relevant service.

Supervise and support the psychological assessment, formulations and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

Please be aware that, due to the high number of applications for certain roles, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

YOUR APPLICATION

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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

This post may be 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.

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.

Name Dr Michelle Trollope Job title Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07920535221 Additional information

This is a unique opportunity to be part of an expanding successful service that makes real and tangible differences to young people and professionals across Norfolk. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and want to know more please contact either Dr Michelle Trollope (Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Associate Director of Psychology) on 07920535221 or Katy Hall (Service Manager) on 07825 218199

Qualifications

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or it's equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
• Registration with the HCPC (Health Care Professions Council) as a practitioner psychologist
• 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
• Representing psychology within MDT setting(clinical and organisational contexts).

Skills

• 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
• High level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of psychological therapies

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.)
• Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups