Job overview
Clinical Psychologist - Adult Eating Disorders Service
Are you:
- Feeling passionate about improving the wellbeing and lives of people with eating disorders?
- Seeking to develop specialist skills to assess, formulate and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions for this client group?
- Interested in supporting and empowering the wider team?
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) Suffolk Community Adult Eating Disorders Service are looking for a suitably experienced Clinical Psychologist with a desire to develop their specialist skills in eating disorders.
We are passionate about service improvement and taking our clinical practice to a level of excellence – and we would like you to be part of this!
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting job role which will afford you the opportunity to offer specialist psychological input within a team, and help us enhance our clinical support and practice to the community that we serve. You will be a valued part of the multi-disciplinary team working within the county-wide Suffolk Adult Eating Disorders Service with bases in Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.
As the successful candidate you will be directly delivering a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and families, as well as providing psychological consultation to the wider care system, including acute hospital trusts and other secondary care mental health services. You will be supported to fulfil this specialist role through training and regular supervision by the Principal Clinical Psychologist. We are eager for you to play a key part in the transformation and development of our service.
You will be skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, and have the ability to communicate highly complex information in a sensitive and compassionate manner.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will have experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
You will be skills in use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management and possess well developed communication skills. You will be working closely with the already established psychological workforce in the service, as well as the senior leadership teams.
We would welcome informal visits or phone calls, please do not hesitate to contact to arrange!
For full details of your responsibilities, please see attached job description.
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This advert is for Clinical Psychologist with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in Norwich, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 gross per annum/ pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 10 Jun 2026.
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