# Clinical Psychologist - Children's Eating Disorders > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist-childrens-eating-disorders/74251dae-33ff-4259-aa7e-6651b93202d2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist-childrens-eating-disorders/74251dae-33ff-4259-aa7e-6651b93202d2.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 pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-01T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-17T06:10:24.093Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Bury_St_Edmunds/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Psychologist_Childrens_Eating_Disorders/Clinical_Psychologist_Childrens_Eating_Disorders-v8301861 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8301861?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This role involves working in a small, friendly multi-disciplinary team to provide psychological interventions for young people with eating disorders and their families. The role is split between our bases in Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich. There are opportunities to link up with other psychological therapists across the wider eating disorders service. We will provide regular clinical supervision, and relevant specialist training and opportunities for professional development, for example CBT for eating disorders. We welcome preceptorship applications for this post. We are looking to appoint a skilled, committed, and motivated individual with excellent communication and organisational skills and a keen interest in working with families and young people. Previous experience working with individuals with eating disorders is ideal but not essential. We can accommodate some flexible working, in line with the service need and we are a Family Friendly and supportive team. ### Main duties of the job The role will include, but not be limited to: assessment, formulation and psychological treatment of individuals with eating disorders and co-morbid mental health difficulties, clinical responsibility for complex cases, supporting the Clinical Lead with service development projects, providing clinical supervision, and providing consultation to colleagues and to external agencies. Our main models of practice are systemic and CBT so skills in those areas would be desirable. If you are interested in joining this exciting and motivated team, please look at the detailed Job Description for more information about this post. Please don’t hesitate to call us to discuss anything about the team or the role: ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities If you are interested in joining this exciting and motivated team, please take a look at the detailed Job Description for more information about this post. We welcome requests for further information. Please don’t hesitate to call us to discuss anything about the team or the roles. **Previous Applicants Need Not Apply** ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS. - Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. ### 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 ### Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS - Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training **Desirable** - Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice ## Documents - [clinical psychologist (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10621235) - [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.