Assistant Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Job Summary

We are looking for a passionate and motivated assistant psychologist to join our friendly and supportive Community Learning Disability Youth, Child and Adolescent mental health service (LD YOUTH CAMHS).

We are a specialist service for under 25 year olds with a learning disability where there are concerns about their behaviour, emotional well-being or mental health and whose needs cannot be met in mainstream services.

This post offers a 12 month fixed term opportunity to gain broad experience of delivering psychological support within a multi-disciplinary team. We are committed to training and development and you should expect to access all relevant CPD for your role whilst in this post, supervision and opportunities for reflective practice.

A car and a full driving licence are needed as this post requires the ability to travel.

Interested? Then tell us what you can bring to our team and apply!

Please be aware we may close the vacancy early as we may receive a high volume of applications.

 

Main duties of the job

You will join a dedicated multi-disciplinary team of Clinical Psychologists, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Learning Disability Nurses, Occupational Therapist, Systemic Practitioner and Support Workers, working closely with social care teams, specialist schools and colleges and local care providers. It is therefore essential that you are a team player.

You will be supervised and supported by a qualified psychologist to deliver specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions with young people and their families, with a strong emphasis on risk assessment, care planning and safeguarding.

Additionally, this varied role will include supporting the team in the collection of routine outcome measures, co-facilitation of groups, teaching, audit, participation/co-production projects and developing resources to support the delivery of the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A BPS accredited degree in Psychology

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of quantitative research

Skills

Desirable

  • Presentation skills

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of mental health
  • High standard of report writing
  • An understanding of psychology applied to health care

other

Essential

  • An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
  • Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
  • Driving licence holder

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).

Closing Date: 05 January 2026

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