# Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/8bd58c0f-bff4-493f-aedc-77ce4087aa2f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-psychologist/8bd58c0f-bff4-493f-aedc-77ce4087aa2f.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, Flexible working, 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-27T08:01:16.090Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Ipswich/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/mental_health/mental_health-v7957929 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7957929?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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! ## Job Description 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. ## 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management - Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis. **Desirable** - Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical service-user groups. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment. - 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 - Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) - Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses **Desirable** - Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice ## Documents - [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863) - [job description 8a clinical psychologist (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10238803) - [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.