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Band 7/8A Clinical Psychologist - East Suffolk Specialist CAMHS

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS TrustIpswich, East of England

Salary
£57,528 to £64,750
Contract
Permanent
Location
Ipswich
Closes
3 November 2026

Overview

This is a NHS role (permanent) with Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust based in Ipswich. The advertised salary is £57,528 to £64,750. It is an Band 7 post. Applications close on 3 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.

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Job description

Are you a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist, a band 7 Clinical Psychologist seeking progression, or an existing 8A Clinical Psychologist ready for...

This is a senior clinical role combining specialist assessment and therapy, consultation to multidisciplinary teams, supervision and workforce development, service improvement, and leadership in psychologically informed care. Key responsibilities include:

  • Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for children, young people and families with complex mental health needs.
  • Deliver a range of evidence-based psychological therapies and interventions to service users, families and carers.
  • Provide psychological consultation, advice and formulation to multidisciplinary team colleagues to support psychologically informed care.
  • Undertake complex risk assessments and advise other professionals on the psychological aspects of risk management.
  • Provide supervision and support to trainee, assistant and newly-qualified psychologists, and contribute to developing the wider psychological workforce.
  • Contribute to service development, strategic planning and the implementation of psychologically informed practice across services.
  • Work collaboratively with health, social care and partner agencies to meet the recovery, safeguarding and wellbeing needs of service users and their families.

Come and Help Us Shape the Future of CAMHS

If you are looking for a role where you can make a real difference, work alongside talented and supportive colleagues, and help shape the future of children's mental health services, we'd love to welcome you to East Suffolk Specialist CAMHS.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

  • NHS pension
  • a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service
  • NHS discounts and many more.

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**Previous Applicants Need Not Apply**

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.

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)

Essential: - 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; - Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.; - Experience of supervision and teaching.

Desirable: - Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post

Essential: - Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.

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How this role compares

We hold 893 NHS vacancies in East of England that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £39,959. This role pays more than about 78% of them.

There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,295 of them in East of England.

You have 13 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust has 67 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.

These figures are calculated from the vacancies GovJobs currently holds, not from official pay statistics. They are a guide to the market, not a valuation of this post.

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