Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist – East Suffolk Specialist CAMHS

Overview

In this senior role, you will lead specialist psychological work for children and young people with complex mental health needs within East Suffolk CAMHS. You will work in a multidisciplinary team, providing assessment, formulation and evidence-based therapies, while supervising trainees and contributing to service development. You will influence psychologically informed care across services and collaborate with partner agencies to support recovery and safeguarding. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape child mental health services and outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• NHS pension
• in-house and external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave 27 days increasing to 33 days plus bank holidays
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for children and young people with complex mental health needs
• Deliver evidence-based psychological therapies to service users, families and carers
• Provide psychological consultation, advice and formulation to multidisciplinary colleagues
• Undertake complex risk assessments and advise on risk management
• Supervise and support trainee, assistant and newly-qualified psychologists
• Contribute to service development, strategic planning and psychologically informed practice
• Collaborate with health, social care and partner agencies to meet recovery and safeguarding needs

Key requirements

• Post-graduate degree in clinical psychology (BPS-accredited)
• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
• Experience as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) with supervisee responsibilities
• Experience with complex and challenging behaviours and full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment
• Experience in supervision and teaching
• Doctor-level knowledge of research design and methodology (including multivariate analysis)

• values multidisciplinary working
• curiosity
• compassion
• specialist psychological assessment
• formulation and intervention planning
• evidence-based psychological therapies

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