Job summary
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.

About us
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.

Job 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.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• 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)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

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Person Specification
Qualification
Essential

• 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)

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapiest)

Relevant experience
Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.

Skills
Essential

• 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
Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical settings and service user group

Other
Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address
Grebe House, Hellesdon Hospital
Drayton High Road
Norwich
NR6 5BE
United Kingdom

Employer's website
https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Dr Rosie Wheeler
rosie.wheeler@nsft.nhs.uk

Details
Date posted
24 August 2026

Pay scheme
Agenda for change

Band
Band 8a

Salary
£57,528 to £64,750 a year
gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Full-time,
Part-time,
Job share

Reference number
246-CEN8188603

Job locations
Grebe House, Hellesdon Hospital
Drayton High Road
Norwich
NR6 5BE
United Kingdom

Supporting documents
Privacy notice
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)

This post is 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.