8A Clinical Psychologist - East Suffolk CAMHS

Job summary

Are you a B7 Clinical Psychologist seeking progression? Or an existing 8A Clinical Psychologist ready for a new challenge? We would love for you to come and join us in Suffolk Specialist CAMHS!

We're looking for a pro-active, passionate, and motivated 8A Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join our East Suffolk Specialist CAMHS team, based in Ipswich. Our service provides highly specialist mental health treatment for children and young people up to the age of 18 years old.

If you have the drive to provide excellent care, can demonstrate high quality clinical skills and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to young people's lives then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting time to be joining the Suffolk CFYP care group as we are developing how we deliver psychological approaches within Primary Care Networks, more specialist secondary teams, across the Crisis Pathways including alternative to admission approaches and the creation of dynamic tier 4 responses and interventions. The new service model integrates services within community hubs and community services, sharing expertise across the systems.

We welcome applicants who are committed to helping develop new ways of working, applying evidence based and innovative approaches. To assist us with this development we need psychologists to assist in delivering outstanding treatment to our young people and families in need. We are striving to develop our care model to be more aligned with the needs of the local communities.

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.

Date posted: 15 April 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £53,755 to £60,504 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 246-ESU6329531

Job locations: Walker Close, Ipswich, IP38LY

Job responsibilities

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.

Interview dates are yet to be set; 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

Qualifications Essential

• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS

Experience Essential

• Experience working as a qualified clinical 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

Skills Essential

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Skills in consultation to professional and non-professional groups.

Knowledge Essential

• Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context.
• Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS

Other Essential

• Ability to travel independently.

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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details

Employer name: Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address: Walker Close, Ipswich, IP38LY

Employer's website: NSFT