Band 8a Acute Services Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist

Band 8a Acute Services Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist Band 8a

Main area Adult Acute Services Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent:
Monday to Friday 8am - 4pm. Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share

Site Grebe House, Hellesdon Hospital Town Norwich Salary £57,528 - £64,750 gross per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 06/09/2026 23:59

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

Please note due to the nature of our roles and patient demographic, you will be required to undertake physical intervention training and remain trained, as required by your role.

The Central Locality Acute Services are looking to recruit a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to join our Crisis and Home Treatment Team (CRHT), based at The Weavers, Hellesdon Hospital.

We are looking for someone with experience of working psychologically with adults with complex presentations who are experiencing a high level of distress. Your role will be multi-faceted, carrying out assessments and delivering brief evidence based interventions.

You will be supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team in the promotion of psychologically informed ways of working such as embedding a formulation approach to risk, treatment and safety plans as well as use of psychological skills workbooks, group interventions and work with family/carers.

There will also be the opportunity to extended pieces of therapy work to support your ongoing skills and development in specific therapy models.

We are a friendly, welcoming and supportive psychology team comprising of 11 clinicians ranging from B4 Assistant Psychologists to B8c Associate Director of Psychology/Consultant Clinical Psychologist. We come with a range of specialist interests and therapy expertise and have strong links to the UEA doctorate course.

• Completing assessments/formulations with the client to help guide the CRHT treatment plan and make recommendations for ongoing psychological care/treatment upon discharge.
• Completing brief and extended psychological interventions using evidence based models.
• Working closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team to support trauma-informed, psychological thinking and promotion of risk formulation/safety planning to inform the team's intervention and discharge plans.
• Supervision of trainee psychologists, where appropriate.
• Offering regular reflective practice and team formulations to the wider teams as well as training on a range of relevant topics.
• Working on relevant research projects, audits, data analysis and trust related wider projects that help support and promote national initiatives and priorities in the delivery of inpatient care.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating…