Job summary
- Main area
- Psycology
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-ESU7808005
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mariner House
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 Per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director of Psychology / Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Band 8c
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
Job overview
Are you an inspiring senior psychological professional ready to shape the future of children, families and young people’s services in East Suffolk? We are seeking a dynamic 0.3 WTE Consultant Clinical Psychologist to become an Associate Director of Psychology providing visible, strategic and compassionate leadership across three key CFYP service areas: the Emotional Wellbeing Hub, LD‑CAMHS, and CONNECT. This is a unique opportunity to influence system‑wide transformation, drive high‑quality and evidence‑based psychological practice, and work collaboratively with multi‑professional colleagues to deliver safe, effective and innovative services. You will work in close, strategic partnership with the existing Associate Director of Psychology for East Suffolk CFYP, together providing cohesive leadership across the breadth of CFYP services hosted within the locality and ensuring alignment, consistency, and excellence across pathways.
In this senior leadership role, you’ll oversee psychological governance, shape workforce development, lead service improvement, and ensure psychologically informed ways of working across our local system. If you thrive on strategic challenge, value collaborative working, and want to make a meaningful difference to the lives of children, young people, and their families, we would love to hear from you. Join us and help drive compassionate, high‑quality care where it matters most.
Main duties of the job
· Provide Professional leadership for all psychology staff across designated services.
· Provide professional advice on psychological practice and providing assurance on delivery of psychological approaches
· Develop psychological approaches and interventions and role to support care delivery.
· Contribute to the supervision of staff in the service, including professional appraisal and identification of CPD needs across the service.
· Lead on policy development and implementation of psychological service provision within the clinical network.
· Working with the multi-professional’s leadership team to embed NSFT shared culture and values.
· Undertake audit, teaching and research activities, and to promote research activity within the clinical network.
· To ensure that arrangements are in place for the for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the clinical network.
· Provide a specialist clinical service directly to clients and through provision of expert advice, consultancy and supervision to professional colleagues.
· To work closely with the director for psychology to ensure the development and governance aims of psychological services are met, within and across clinical networks and/or other functional departments of NSFT.
· Lead and participate in Trust wide initiatives and projects.
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 refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a more detailed overview of your Key Accountabilities. If you believe you have the necessary qualities to make a positive impact in your local communities, please click APPLY!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post graduate doctoral level training that confers HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist Psychologist
- Registration with the Health and Care professions Council as Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist for a significant period, including post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
- Substantial demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, within the content of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of providing consultation, supervision, and training to multidisciplinary staff.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS Experience of working collaboratively at asenior level with colleagues across professions, teams, providers, systems service users and communities.
- Substantial experience of involving service users and carers in the development and improvement of services.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading change within a service or organisation.
- Experience of implementing clinical governance procedures.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulations intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to produce reports and documents for Boards and Committees using relevant technology to present complex data and strategy with clarity.
- Well-developed and efficient communication skills, oral and written, to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable criteria
- Skills and experience of using leadership models and the application of models of change at a service level.
- Experience of leading change within a service or organisation.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of applied psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology,and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Doctoral level (or equivalent) knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Kate Budge
- Job title
- CFYP Clinical Collaborative Chair
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795062324
- Additional information
Dr Ruth Mills (Director of Psychology, East Suffolk) - [email protected]
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