# Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist - East Suffolk Specialist CAMHS > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-78a-clinical-psychologist-east-suffolk-specialist-camhs/02753512-5a57-4240-8e7b-007db20080eb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-78a-clinical-psychologist-east-suffolk-specialist-camhs/02753512-5a57-4240-8e7b-007db20080eb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Ipswich - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 gross per annum/ pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-17T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-03T09:00:55.493Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Ipswich/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Specialist_CAMHS_years_old/Specialist_CAMHS_years_old-v8183655 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist, 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 East Suffolk Specialist CAMHS Service! Our service supports children and young people aged 0–18 experiencing a wide range of moderate to severe mental health difficulties. At East Suffolk Specialist CAMHS, we are passionate about making a difference to the lives of children, young people and families. We are proud of our welcoming, compassionate and highly skilled multidisciplinary team, bringing together a wide range of professional expertise. We believe the best outcomes for children and young people happen when talented professionals work collaboratively, learn from one another and maintain a strong shared sense of purpose. Every day brings opportunities to make a meaningful difference to the lives of young people and families. We are looking for a skilled, enthusiastic and values-driven professionals to join our thriving multidisciplinary team in Ipswich. We are seeking a Clinical Psychologist who: is passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people and families; values multidisciplinary working; brings curiosity, compassion and clinical excellence; wants to contribute to an ambitious and developing service; and shares our commitment to co-production and involving young people in shaping care. ### Main duties of the job This is a senior clinical role combining specialist assessment and therapy, consultation to multidisciplinary teams, supervision and workforce development, service improvement, and leadership in psychologically informed care. Key responsibilities include: - Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for children, young people and families with complex mental health needs. - Deliver a range of evidence-based psychological therapies and interventions to service users, families and carers. - Provide psychological consultation, advice and formulation to multidisciplinary team colleagues to support psychologically informed care. - Undertake complex risk assessments and advise other professionals on the psychological aspects of risk management. - Provide supervision and support to trainee, assistant and newly-qualified psychologists, and contribute to developing the wider psychological workforce. - Contribute to service development, strategic planning and the implementation of psychologically informed practice across services. - Work collaboratively with health, social care and partner agencies to meet the recovery, safeguarding and wellbeing needs of service users and their families. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Come and Help Us Shape the Future of CAMHS If you are looking for a role where you can make a real difference, work alongside talented and supportive colleagues, and help shape the future of children's mental health services, we'd love to welcome you to East Suffolk Specialist CAMHS. 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 ### 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 ### Knowledge **Essential** - Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis. ### 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 ### 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) ## Documents - [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863) - [band 8a clinical psychologist 2026 jd (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10544730) - [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.