Clinical or Practitioner Psychologist

Clinical or Practitioner Psychologist

Closing date: 11 January 2026

We are seeking a compassionate, innovative, and enthusiastic Band 8a Clinical or Practitioner Psychologist to join our "Outstanding" community Children's and Young People's Specialist services. You will work within a friendly, supportive, highly specialist multidisciplinary team across Norfolk, including Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth, and Norwich. Bases are negotiable and flexible working is supported, including agile/home working where relevant.

The post is 18.75 hours per week and will be across Norfolk; the Starfish Team offers assessment and intervention for young people of school age (4-18 years) with a diagnosed learning disability who are experiencing significant behavioural and/or mental health difficulties.

• Varied assessment, formulation, and intervention, including direct and indirect work with children, young people, families, and the professional networks involved in their care.
• Consultation to the clinical team and external agencies, bringing a psychologically informed perspective.
• Contribution to supervision, teaching, and training of psychological practitioners and other professionals within the team.
• Research skills utilisation for audit, policy and service development, and dissemination of appropriate research evidence.
• Opportunities to liaise with other Psychologists working within the Trust and to collaborate with the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology at the University of East Anglia.

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust has been awarded an "Outstanding" rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand‑alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title. We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented, and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future.

Dr Lorna Christoforou-Hazelwood, Clinical Psychologist, ,

• Graduate membership of BPS.
• Post‑graduate doctorate in a relevant psychology field, accredited by the BPS.
• Training in the supervision of clinical psychologists.
• Registration or application to register with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Application for Chartered status made to British Psychological Society.
• Training in diagnostic assessment of Autistic Spectrum Disorders e.g. DISCO, ADOS & ADI.

• Specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of children and young people across a range of care settings.
• Working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Exercising full responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Representing psychology within the context of multi‑disciplinary care.
• Working with client group either during or prior to training.
• Further training within designated specialty.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Record of having published in peer‑reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience in the processes for safeguarding vulnerable children.

• High level (doctoral) skills in communication, teaching, supervision, analysis, formulation, and research methodology.
• An identified area of specialist knowledge within designated specialty.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and implications for clinical practice.
• Ability to manage own work timetable.
• Ability to participate in supervision.
• Ability to resolve difficult interpersonal situations.
• Ability to manage stress generated by work/work environment.
• Well‑developed skills in communicating effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to children and their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Good understanding of other professionals' theoretical…