# Associate Director of Psychology > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-of-psychology/c947b008-bc70-4d81-a2b3-1e32993556e6 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-of-psychology/c947b008-bc70-4d81-a2b3-1e32993556e6.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Norwich - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 gross per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-27T07:40:54.390Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norwich/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Psychology/Clinical_Psychology-v8015309 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8015309?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a clinical psychologist with consultant level experience ready to lead and shape the future of Psychological services within Central Norfolk? We are seeking an exceptional Associate Director of Psychology to join our Psychology Team in Adult Acute Services. You will be joining a well-established team working across the largest Acute service in NSFT that comprises five inpatients wards, three of which are part of the new build, a crisis resolution home treatment team and a further new ward.  You will also have oversight of the psychological provision within the wider emergency care pathway which includes the Mental Health Liaison Service. You will be supported in this role and CPD relevant to the role will be available and encouraged. The work is challenging, fast paced and rewarding; our Psychology team come with a range of specialist interests and therapy expertise and have strong links to the UEA doctorate course. There will be the opportunity for training and development as part of the role ### Main duties of the job - You will provide professional, strategic and clinical leadership across Acute Services and ensure psychological approaches are embedded within multidisciplinary teams, delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care. You will ensure performance targets are met and undertake direct clinical work, supporting the teams with the most complex cases. This pivotal role includes clinical supervision and line management responsibilities and supports the transformation of services aligned with the Trust's objectives, driving innovation, collaboration, and excellence in psychological care. This is a unique opportunity to lead the development and implementation of specialist Psychological pathways for people experiencing a range of complex difficulties requiring inpatient admission, while contributing to workforce development, supervision, and training. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - P       Provide Professional leadership for all psychology staff in the Clinical Network. - Provide professional advice on psychological practice and providing assurance on delivery of psychological approaches - Develop psychological approaches and interventions and role sot support care delivery across the clinical network. - Contribute to the effective clinical and professional supervision of staff in the service, including professional appraisal and identification of CPD needs across the service. - Lead on policy development and implementation of psychological service provision within the clinical network. - Working with the multi-professional’s leadership team to embed NSFT shared culture and values. - Undertake audit, teaching and research activities, and to promote research activity within the clinical network. - To ensure that arrangements are in place for the for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the clinical network. - Provide a specialist clinical service directly to clients and through provision of expert advice, consultancy and supervision to professional colleagues. - To work closely with the director for psychology to ensure the development and governance aims of psychological services are met, within and across clinical networks and/or other functional departments of NSFT. - Lead and participate in Trust wide initiatives and projects. - To initiate and implement service developments and projects within the service. - To initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families. - To have oversight of the implementation of the trusts research plan to facilitate the appropriate participation of psychological professionals and research projects. ## Job Details Are you a clinical psychologist with consultant level experience ready to lead and shape the future of Psychological services within Central Norfolk? We are seeking an exceptional Associate Director of Psychology to join our Psychology Team in Adult Acute Services. You will be joining a well-established team working across the largest Acute service in NSFT that comprises five inpatients wards, three of which are part of the new build, a crisis resolution home treatment team and a further new ward. You will also have oversight of the psychological provision within the wider emergency care pathway which includes the Mental Health Liaison Service. You will be supported in this role and CPD relevant to the role will be available and encouraged. The work is challenging, fast paced and rewarding; our Psychology team come with a range of specialist interests and therapy expertise and have strong links to the UEA doctorate course. There will be the opportunity for training and development as part of the role ## Job Description You will provide professional, strategic and clinical leadership across Acute Services and ensure psychological approaches are embedded within multidisciplinary teams, delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care. You will ensure performance targets are met and undertake direct clinical work, supporting the teams with the most complex cases. This pivotal role includes clinical supervision and line management responsibilities and supports the transformation of services aligned with the Trust's objectives, driving innovation, collaboration, and excellence in psychological care. This is a unique opportunity to lead the development and implementation of specialist Psychological pathways for people experiencing a range of complex difficulties requiring inpatient admission, while contributing to workforce development, supervision, and training. ## Responsibilities P Provide Professional leadership for all psychology staff in the Clinical Network. Provide professional advice on psychological practice and providing assurance on delivery of psychological approaches Develop psychological approaches and interventions and role sot support care delivery across the clinical network. Contribute to the effective clinical and professional supervision of staff in the service, including professional appraisal and identification of CPD needs across the service. Lead on policy development and implementation of psychological service provision within the clinical network. Working with the multi-professional’s leadership team to embed NSFT shared culture and values. Undertake audit, teaching and research activities, and to promote research activity within the clinical network. To ensure that arrangements are in place for the for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the clinical network. Provide a specialist clinical service directly to clients and through provision of expert advice, consultancy and supervision to professional colleagues. To work closely with the director for psychology to ensure the development and governance aims of psychological services are met, within and across clinical networks and/or other functional departments of NSFT. Lead and participate in Trust wide initiatives and projects. To initiate and implement service developments and projects within the service. To initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families. To have oversight of the implementation of the trusts research plan to facilitate the appropriate participation of psychological professionals and research projects. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Seek out and act on performance feedback and continually build capability as a leader. - Resilient and selfmotivated with drive and vision, able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas. - Ability to travel independently ### Skills **Essential** - Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulations intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. - Ability to produce reports and documents for Boards and Committees using relevant technology to present complex data and strategy with clarity. - Formal training in supervision of psychologists and/or other psychological professionals. **Desirable** - Skills and experience of using leadership models and the application of models of change at a service level. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Doctoral level (or equivalent) knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology. - Knowledge and understanding of the current change agenda within mental health. - Knowledge of integrated governance/quality governance. ### Experience **Essential** - Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist for a significant period, including post qualification experience within the designated speciality where the post is located - Substantial demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, within the content of a multi-disciplinary care plan. **Desirable** - Experience of working as a consultant clinical psychologist - Experience of implementing clinical governance procedures. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology that confers HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist. - Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as practitioner psychologist **Desirable** - Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. ## Documents - [organisational chart (pdf, 296.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10301738) - [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863) - [associate director of psychology (pdf, 816.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10301232) - [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.