Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist

Are you a skilled and experienced Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist looking to lead and shape psychological services for children and young people? This role offers an exciting leadership opportunity, as an 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist, to provide high-quality psychological care, develop innovate clinical pathways, and support staff and service users within a 0-14 community CAMHS covering Central Norfolk.
The role will involve working alongside a diverse multi-professional team, providing clinical oversight of the psychological therapies offered within the team and offering direct clinical supervision to 8a Clinical Psychologists and Psychological Therapists.
The team strives to be dynamic and creative and provide a needs-led approach to improve the lives of children and young people by providing a mental health service to be proud of. It is a service that shows compassion, kindness and hope at a time when families need it most. The team can support hybrid and flexible working patterns to ensure a balanced and healthy work life.
It is worth noting it is an NSFT ambition that the age range will change to 0-16 in 2026 with an aim to extend this to 0-18 as the service develops., + Clinical Leadership: Drive change forward and ensure high standards of psychological care are maintained in line with the current evidence base and national policy
+ Service Development: Create and support collaborative change, consult with CAMHS staff and relevant services and lead on co-production with service users to improve access to psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions; ensuring a needs-led efficient and effective service
+ Supervision & Line Management: Offer clinical supervision/ line management to psychological professionals and trainees; fostering a culture of learning and ensuring high quality, formulation-led clinical work across CAMHS
+ Training & Development: Develop and deliver training to embed psychologically informed practices within the multidisciplinary team; supporting a stepped care model of psychological care
+ Staff Wellbeing: Provide reflective practice and post-incident support; enhancing resilience and retention
+ Clinical Practice: Deliver specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions (including, but not exclusive to, CBT) for those with complex mental health needs. Stay abreast of relevant training, legislation and professional development to ensure a high level of competence in clinical practice
+ Innovation & Research: Work with local universities to support teaching and supervise doctoral trainees. Contribute to research and quality improvement initiatives

Working for our organisation
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:
+ 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.