Assistant Psychologist
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS TrustBury St Edmunds, IP33 3PX, East of England
Overview
This is a NHS role (fixed-term) with Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust based in Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3PX. The advertised salary is £28,392 to £31,157. Applications close on 31 August 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Are you an existing Assistant Psychologist looking for a new challenge? Or an aspiring Psychologist seeking your first Assistant role?
If you have the passion, drive, and commitment towards providing the very best psychological support to our Children, Young People, and Families, we would love for you to come and join us in Suffolk Specialist CAMHS!
We're seeking to appoint a pro-active, passionate, and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join our well-established and thriving West Suffolk CAMHS team based in Bury St Edmunds. Our service provides highly specialist mental health treatment to children and young people up to the age of 18 years old; experiencing moderate to severe mental health disorders.
We appreciate that as part of developing the skills and experience required to take the next steps to clinical training, our Assistant Psychologists value a range of experiences. Within our Suffolk Children, Young People and Families (CFYP) care group, we support our Assistant Psychologists to gain experience working within and across our core secondary Mental Health services. Positions will be based within Specialist CAMHS, with potential opportunities to become involved in clinical and project work within our Young Adult Mental Health Service (YAMHS) which serves the 18 - 25-year-old age range.
Please see attached job specification and recruitment letter. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the nominated Specialist CAMHS service, and where appropriate YAMHS service, to in summary:
Support the overall psychological care and treatment of children, young people and families within the service.
Provide psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist; including the use ofspecialist psychometric assessments.
Under supervision, to deliver brief psychological interventions.
Support the qualified Clinical Psychologist in the development and delivery of workshops and training packages.
Participate in audit, research, service evaluation, and project activities.
The successful candidate will need to have a BPS accredited BSc in Psychology.
If you have the drive to provide excellent care, the ambition to develop high quality clinical skills, and are willing to go the extra mile to help make adifference to young people's lives then we would love to hear from you.
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 out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Some of the benefits you can expect:o NHS pensiono a comprehensive in house & external training programmeso career progressiono starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)o staff physio serviceo NHS discounts and many more.
We will ensure that you continue to access training and supervision to develop your own practice and further your career ambitions.
For further details regarding the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We will ensure that you continue to access training and supervision to develop your own practice and further your career ambitions.
For further details regarding the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
- BPS Accredited Degree in Psychology
- An understanding of psychology applied to healthcare
- High standard of report writing.
- Knowledge of mental health
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- Experience of quantitative research
- Experience of research in the NHS
- Ability to adapt communication to the needs of the audience
- BPS Accredited Degree in Psychology
- An understanding of psychology applied to healthcare
- High standard of report writing.
- Knowledge of mental health
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- Experience of quantitative research
- Experience of research in the NHS
- Ability to adapt communication to the needs of the audience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
G Block
Hospital
Bury St Edmunds
IP33 3PX
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
G Block
Hospital
Bury St Edmunds
IP33 3PX
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)
How this role compares
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