Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-CEN7660149
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Peddars Centre, Hellesdon Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 Gross per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical or Counselling Psychologist/Senior Psychological Therapist
Band 8a
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
We are looking to recruit an experienced and dynamic clinical/counselling psychologist/senior psychological therapist (please see job descriptions), across our North East and North West Adult Community Mental Health Teams in the Central Norfolk Locality
Main duties of the job
Main duties include formulation, assessment and psychological intervention to service users and carers within a face paced CMHT context. You will provide evidence-based individual and group interventions as well as supporting the broader team deliver psychologically informed interventions through consultation, supervision and by delivering training.
Working for our organisation
The North East and North West CMHTs are based at the Peddars Centre at Hellesdon Hospital. With a large-scale community transformation project taking place across the locality, it is an exciting time to join the Adult CMHT Psychology and Therapies Teams.
There is a positive culture around formulation led and trauma-informed care and we provide a broad range of NICE-endorsed therapeutic approaches. We are pro-active in developing staff around our identified service needs, supported by further training and project work. Psychology Services within the Trust have strong links with partners including UEA, and NSFT's Recovery College, in which they play an active role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will provide psychological consultation, formulation, assessment and intervention for our service users and carers. They will be expected to attend relevant weekly team meetings and psychology meetings. Further training opportunities will be encouraged to develop a therapeutic model or specialism to augment provision of evidence-based therapies.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more details on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology or counselling, accredited by BPS
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC) OR
- Postgraduate qualification/Post Graduate training in a specific therapy (e.g. CBT, CAT)'
- Core Mental health professional training and registration or equivalent knowledge and experience
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment
- Highly specialised experience of developing and delivering specialised treatment packages with individuals and groups/families
- Experience of supervision and teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with Adults presenting with complexity.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently
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
- Sam Harbrow
- Job title
- Principal Psychological Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603421576
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