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Main area
Mental Health
Grade
Bank Band 7
Contract
Bank: 3 months
Hours
Flexible working - bank
Job ref
354-Bank-PC-20024-A
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wentworth House, Crawley Hospital
Town
Crawley
Salary
£24.82 per hour
Salary period
Hourly
Closing
01/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Bank Practitioner Psychologist/ Specialist Psychological Therapist

Bank Band 7

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Would you like the opportunity to work in a specialist Veteran mental health team?

We are seeking a temporary experienced and compassionate Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to join our lively mental health team; supporting  veterans and reservists presenting with mental health problems and their families. Some of our team have a personal connection to veteran's, either with a military background or holding a close relationship with someone who does.

You would become an integral part of a small specialist, psychological therapies team who provide expert care to veterans dealing with trauma and other associated mental health difficulties. You would support veterans who have found it difficult to get their needs met within mainstream NHS mental health services.

We cover Kent, Surrey and Sussex and offer virtual and in-person psychological therapy across all the counties.  

Main duties of the job

This exciting role will involve working with a degree of autonomy alongside providing the opportunity to work as a member of the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers.

In addition, to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training and by participating in systematic clinical governance.

To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Working for our organisation

We are an expanding and exciting specialist service within SPFT, working regional in the south east and nationally as part of the NHS armed forces networks for Op courage.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities  can be found within the attached job description. 

Please only apply if you have significant experience in delivering NICE compliant trauma focused psychological therapies either trauma focused Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and/or EMDR.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Recognised/accredited postgraduate level training in CBT as specified in the Appendices
  • Professionally registered as specified in the same Appendix

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), as specified in the same Appendix, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
  • A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
  • Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context
  • A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
  • Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context
  • Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
  • Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group
  • A high-level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the same appendix, as applied to the client group using this service.
  • Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the same appendix

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Anita Young
Job title
Lead Principle Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
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