# Clinical Psychologist - CAMHS Alternative to Admission Team (CATAT) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist-camhs-alternative-to-admission-team-catat/0f6b1097-c296-4f22-b0da-30fda1fb1f46 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist-camhs-alternative-to-admission-team-catat/0f6b1097-c296-4f22-b0da-30fda1fb1f46.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Norwich - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 gross per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-13T16:01:11.264Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Carlton_Court_Hospital_St_Peters_Road_Lowestoft_Suffolk/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8122259 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8122259?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Children’s Alternative to Admission Team (CATAT) provide intensive support for service users aged 12 year to 18 years old who are at risk of being admitted to hospital. Their aim is to avoid admission wherever possible. They also provide in reach into hospitals to facilitate discharge to ensure any admission is as short as possible.  They provide a range of multidisciplinary interventions in a variety of locations to best meet the young person and their family / carer’s needs. CATAT provides a service 7 days a week from 8am-8pm. The intervention will be initially offered for 6 weeks after which it will be reviewed by the team. If it is felt that ongoing intervention is still needed CATAT will offer a further 6 weeks and review again. All children under the CATAT service are also open to one of the CAMHS teams in NSFT with the CATAT service working alongside the team to support the young person. CATAT aims to support recovery and lesser restrictive options for young people in the community. The vision that the CATAT team share is: “Working to develop a service that offers the young people in Norfolk and Suffolk the support required to succeed, achieve and recover safely in the community as an alternative to an inpatient psychiatric admission” ### Main duties of the job Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities. ### 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! ## 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. ### Skills **Essential** - Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. - Skills in training and supervision. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis. - Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context. **Desirable** - Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical settings and serviceuser groups ### 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 **Desirable** - Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts). - 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 - Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses **Desirable** - Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10451671) - [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863) - [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.