# Band 7/8a Acute Services Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-78a-acute-services-clinical-psychologist/75dc3751-5023-4546-8e49-6474be10801d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-78a-acute-services-clinical-psychologist/75dc3751-5023-4546-8e49-6474be10801d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Hellesdon Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 gross per annum (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-11T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T10:04:18.435Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norwich/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Acute_Services/Adult_Acute_Services-v8310097 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8310097?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are excited to offer an opportunity to join the Acute Psychology team working across wards at Hellesdon Hospital, which includes 3 female and 2 male adult acute wards, and female Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. Applications from new qualified psychologists looking to complete their preceptorship from band 7 to 8a are welcomed. The role involves close working with the wider multi-disciplinary team, promoting the use of psychological models and encouraging psychological thinking for the ward staff and the leadership team. Given the nature of the wards, work will often be focussed on assessment and formulation, with consideration for what would support discharge for the patient. Opportunities for extended pieces of work will also be available, in order to support your ongoing development. We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive psychology team including a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, 2 Assistant Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Clinical and Counselling Psychologists. 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 support their understanding of their mental health, guide ward staff in their support of the client, and inform discharge planning. - 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, and assistant 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. ### 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! 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. Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs Interviews are yet to be confirmed, and candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days’ notice. 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. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. 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 ### 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. ### 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. - 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 ### Qualification **Essential** - Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology or counselling, accredited by BPS - 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 additional CPD in one or more areas of psychological practice - Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapy) ### Relevant experience **Essential** - 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. **Desirable** - Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts). - Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post. - Experience of supervision and teaching ## Documents - [organisational structure (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10632705) - [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863) - [band 8a clinical psychologist jd 2026 (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10630362) - [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.