Assistant Clinical Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Job Summary

This is an amazing opportunity to join a pioneering team that is embedding help with sleep within youth mental health services across Norfolk and Waveney. Our aim is to ensure young people can access effective help with sleep as early as possible.

We offer training and supervision in an adapted form of CBT for insomnia (The Better Sleep Programme) to mental health practitioners across the wider mental health system. We also run online workshops raising awareness of the role of sleep in youth mental health alongside work with more specialist services to help them adapt sleep interventions to the clinical population they work with. We have strong links with UEA sleep researchers and the DClinPsy course and are actively pursuing and supporting research studies in sleep and youth mental health.

The post offers a rare opportunity to develop clinical skills in a specialist area alongside developing practical research and service evaluation skills working as part of a wider service implementation programme.

This is an amazing opportunity to join a pioneering team that is embedding help with sleep within youth mental health services across Norfolk and Waveney. Our aim is to ensure young people can access effective help with sleep as early as possible.

 

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will support the psychologists/psychotherapists in the programme team in delivering training days, workshops and supervision groups (mostly online). They will provide peer support to trained practitioners starting to use the intervention and will be liaising with service user groups to promote service user involvement in the programme.

They will be providing support to specific adaptation projects in more specialist clinical populationssuch as young people in crisis or those with neurodevelopmental or learning difficulties by carrying out literature reviews, developing modified resources and supporting the evaluation of any adapted sleep interventions.

 

They will support the overall evaluation of the programme through skilled database management. They will have the opportunity to be involved in specific service evaluation and research studies.

 

The ideal candidate would have previous experience of working in mental health services; an interest in sleep (specialist training provided); confidence using spreadsheets and online platforms; a compassionate, respectful and inclusive stance toward service users and professional colleagues, and an interest in clinical research.

 

The post requires excellent organisational and time management skills alongside a good ability to communicate positively with others.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A BPS accredited degree in Psychology

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of quantitative research

Desirable

  • Experience of research in the NHS

Skills

Essential

  • Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows

Desirable

  • Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and colleagues

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of quantitative research
  • An understanding of psychology applied to health care
  • Knowledge of mental health

Desirable

  • An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities
  • An ability to apply existing knowledge to a mental health context

Other

Essential

  • An ability to interact with clients with mental health problems
  • Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals
  • Ability to travel independently

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: 08 June 2025

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