• Job Description

  Req#: C9246-25-0700?language=en&page=254&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist - Suffolk YAMHS (18-25 year olds)

  Are you a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist or a band 7 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 the West Suffolk 18-25 Young Adult Mental Health Service!

  We're looking for a proactive, passionate, and motivated7/ 8A Clinical Psychologist to join our West Suffolk YAMHS team based in Bury St. Edmunds. Our service provides highly specialist mental health treatment for young adults aged 18-25. As a team, we are committed to developing the best possible service for the young people we work with. We have a thriving psychology group within the YAMHS team including clinical psychologists, CBT, DBT, and systemic family therapists, and two assistant psychologists led by an experienced 8B principal clinical psychologist and well-supported by the Associate Director of Psychology.

  We would welcome applications from newly/soon to be qualified clinical psychologists looking for a post with scope for progression. We are keen to offer training opportunities and support our staff to develop through a range of exciting internal and external CPD opportunities.

  We are open to discussing full and part-time working hours, and we understand everyone has commitments outside of work, so welcome conversations around flexible working options too.

  Main duties of the job

  If you have the drive to provide excellent care, can demonstrate high quality clinical and leadership 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.

  Please see the attached recruitment letter for more details.

  • Undertaking complex assessments of young adults and their systems, developing meaningful formulations and making highly skilled decisions which guide ongoing intervention options.
  • Providing evidence-based psychological interventions and treatment for young people with a wide range of mental health presentations.
  • To confidently use neuropsychological tests and other psychometrics to assess and formulate cases and inform treatment with this information in mind.
  • To provide specialist clinical psychology expertise, knowledge and guidance to the team, in order to provide psychologically based frameworks of understanding, and develop psychological mindedness more generally within the team.
  • To undertake and contribute to complex risk assessment and management of complex cases within the pathway.
  • To contribute to the development of a response and effective Clinical Psychology service within the team, including the use of consultation.
  • To support the Principal Clinical Psychologist and Consultant Clinical Psychologist in wider transformation and service development work where required.

  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.

  Details

  Date posted

  05 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £55,690 to £62,682 a year gross per annum/ pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  246-WSU7242650

  Job locations

  G Block

  Hospital Road

  Bury St. Edmunds

  IP33 2NR

  
  

  Job description

  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.

  Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

  Job description

  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.

  Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

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

  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 range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
  • Experience of supervision and teaching.

  Desirable

  • Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

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

  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 range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
  • Experience of supervision and teaching.

  Desirable

  • Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.

  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).

  Additional information

  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

  G Block

  Hospital Road

  Bury St. Edmunds

  IP33 2NR

  
  

  Employer's website

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

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

  Address

  G Block

  Hospital Road

  Bury St. Edmunds

  IP33 2NR

  
  

  Employer's website

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

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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