Practitioner Psychologist

Job summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Band 8b Practitioner Psychologist to join our Community Forensic Services, working across both Norfolk and Suffolk, supporting individuals with complex mental health, offending, and risk-related needs to live safely and successfully within the community. The post holder will be responsible for managing the existing psychological service within the Norfolk Forensic Community Team and developing the newly commissioned psychological service within the Suffolk Forensic Community team.

The post-holder will provide highly specialist psychological services, delivering assessment, formulation, intervention, consultation and risk management for individuals with complex mental health, offending and forensic needs. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the post-holder will contribute to care planning, service development and the promotion of psychologically informed practice across the service. The role includes leadership responsibility for Community Forensic Service development and evaluation, supervision of psychology staff and trainees, and partnership working with health, social care and criminal justice agencies.

The successful candidate will be an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist with substantial experience of working with complex presentations and risk. They will have strong skills in formulation, consultation, supervision, and multidisciplinary working, alongside a commitment to recovery-focused and trauma-informed practice.

Main duties of the job

Working with the community psychology team, (which consists of one additional qualified psychologist and two band 4 assistant psychologists), the post-holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for individuals with complex mental health, offending and risk-related needs within a community forensic setting.

The successful candidate will provide consultation and specialist advice to multidisciplinary colleagues, external agencies and partner organisations. They will promote psychologically informed and trauma-informed practice across the service, working collaboratively with health, social care and criminal justice partners to support effective care pathways and positive outcomes for service users.

As a senior member of the team, the post-holder will provide clinical leadership, supervision and training to psychology staff, trainees and other professionals. The successful candidate will work closely with the Consultant Psychologists within the team to contribute to service development, quality improvement, audit and research activities, ensuring that services are evidence-based, responsive to need and delivered in accordance with professional, ethical and organisational standards.

About us

At Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, inclusion is at the heart of how we work. We are committed to creating a fair, transparent and accessible recruitment process where every candidate has the opportunity to succeed.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, particularly those currently underrepresented in our workforce, including those from the global majority. We recognise that not everyone has equal access to opportunities and are working to address this.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and ensuring all candidates receive a positive and equitable experience.

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.