Band 8a Acute Services Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist
Band 8a
Main area Adult Acute Services Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent: Monday to Friday 8am – 4pm. Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8am – 4pm.) Job ref 246-CEN8188603
Site Grebe House, Hellesdon Hospital Town Norwich Salary £57,528 – £64,750 gross per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 06/09/2026 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
The Central Locality Acute Services are looking to recruit a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to join our Crisis and Home Treatment Team (CRHT), based at The Weavers, Hellesdon Hospital.
We are looking for someone with experience of working psychologically with adults with complex presentations who are experiencing a high level of distress. Your role will be multi-faceted, carrying out assessments and delivering brief evidence based interventions.
You will be supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team in the promotion of psychologically informed ways of working such as embedding a formulation approach to risk, treatment and safety plans as well as use of psychological skills workbooks, group interventions and work with family/carers.
There will also be the opportunity to extended pieces of therapy work to support your ongoing skills and development in specific therapy models.
We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive psychology team comprising of 11 clinicians ranging from B4 Assistant Psychologists to B8c Associate Director of Psychology/Consultant Clinical Psychologist. We come with a range of specialist interests and therapy expertise and have strong links to the UEA doctorate course.
Main duties of the job
- Completing assessments/formulations with the client to help guide the CRHT treatment plan and make recommendations for ongoing psychological care/treatment upon discharge.
- Completing brief and extended psychological interventions using evidence based models.
- Working closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team to support trauma-informed, psychological thinking and promotion of risk formulation/safety planning to inform the team’s intervention and discharge plans.
- Supervision of trainee psychologists, where appropriate.
- Offering regular reflective practice and team formulations to the wider teams as well as training on a range of relevant topics.
- Working on relevant research projects, audits, data analysis and trust related wider projects that help support and promote national initiatives and priorities in the delivery of inpatient care.
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
There will be the opportunity for training and development as part of the role and the post is funded as full-time but part time hours or a split post can be considered.
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.
Interviews are yet to be confirmed, and candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days’ notice. 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.
Person specification
Qualification
- Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology or counselling, accredited by BPS
- Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses
- Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical/counselling psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapiest)
- Experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling 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 wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems, in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- 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 representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Skills
- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Well -developed communications skills (oral and written)
- Skills in neuropsychological assessment.
Knowledge
- Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
- Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS
- Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical settings and service user group
Other
- Able to identify, provide and promote appropriate support strategies to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Able to use multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to travel independently
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.
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 Rosie WheelerJob title Principal Clinical PsychologistEmail address rosie.wheeler@nsft.nhs.ukAdditional informationPlease feel free to email for more information and to arrange a telephone call and/or face to face visit.
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