# Assistant Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist/ba8c6551-eb22-498c-bbe2-edad61fdc9e4 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-psychologist/ba8c6551-eb22-498c-bbe2-edad61fdc9e4.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Hellesdon Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Assistant psychologist - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 gross per annum (pro rata) - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-19T11:31:35.992Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norwich/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Perinatal_Psychology/Perinatal_Psychology-v8342290 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8342290?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview NSFT Specialist Services are seeking to recruit a psychology graduate for a full-time Assistant Psychologist posts based at the Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit at Hellesdon Hospital. Applicants must have excellent literacy and numeracy skills, a psychology degree with 2.1 or above and be eligible for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society. The Kingfisher Unit has 8 beds and offers specialist acute in-patient treatment for mothers who have serious mental illness, in an environment where they can stay with their babies. Mothers have a range of presentations including postpartum psychosis, severe post-natal depression and severe post-natal anxiety. We are the unit for the East of England region and have a full multi-disciplinary team including medics, nurses, nursery nurses, midwives, health visitors, social workers, an occupational therapist, psychologists and a psychological therapist. There are lots of opportunities for multi-disciplinary working and learning about holding both the mother and babies’ needs in mind in our work. ### Main duties of the job The role will involve working with the ward team to deliver psychologically informed interventions, with a focus on short term, intensive individual work alongside some opportunities for group work. All clinical work would be under the guidance and supervision of the a qualified clinical psychologist. There would be opportunities for service-related research and audit. The post holder would also need to take the lead on collecting routine outcome measures and using databases to analyse the data collected. You would receive weekly supervision from a qualified psychologist. As a service we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programme at the UEA and have supported previous assistant psychologist onto to clinical training. ### Detailed job description and main 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! ### Applicant requirements 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows. **Desirable** - Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and colleagues. - Presentation skills ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of mental health - Knowledge of quantitative research. - High standard of report writing. - An understanding of psychology applied to health care. **Desirable** - An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities. - An ability to apply existing knowledge to a mental health context. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of quantitative research **Desirable** - Experience of research in the NHS ### Qualifications **Essential** - A BPS accredited degree in Psychology at 2.1 or above ## Documents - [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863) - [assistant psychologist band 4 job description (pdf, 248.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10666614) - [values based recruitment – candidates guide (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1028) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.