Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 354-AE-21125
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hillrise ATS
- Town
- Newhaven
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/06/2025
Employer heading
Senior Practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
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
We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic, HCPC registered-Practitioner Psychologist to join our friendly and innovative team. This is a permanent post at 0.8 sessions or 30 hours per week. We welcome applicants hoping to develop their skills at Band 7 as a preceptorship or those with more experience at 8a.
The successful candidate will join a welcoming, highly-skilled and enthusiastic community of psychologists and psychological therapists working as part of Lewes & Havens Assessment and Treatment Service. The service is multi-professional community mental health team commissioned to work with service users with complex mental health needs, their families and carers.
We are looking for applicants with excellent clinical skills and an aptitude for engaging positively with colleagues and service users. You will have skills in thinking creatively with local colleagues, using your psychological skills to inform service-users' care pathways and ongoing recovery journeys. We value a strong commitment to recovery, multi-disciplinary working, co-production with service users and carers, and equality. We are committed to the delivery of evidence-based interventions.
We have fantastic CPD opportunities including access to national training places for MBT, CBTp and FI training. We also have a thriving research and development department and are regularly part of national psychological therapy studies.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Practitioner Psychologist you will work closely with the MDT to ensure a trauma-informed, therapeutic culture is promoted and embedded with collaborative service user engagement. You will work closely with the 8b Principal Psychologist to provide leadership around the implementation of evidence-based interventions.
The role includes providing individual and group evidence-based interventions for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. Formulation skills will be an important part of the role as you lead on team formulation which is valued part of MDT working and care planning.
As a senior member of our Psychological Therapies team in East Sussex, you will be required to offer supervision to CBT practitioners, trainees and assistant psychologists within the service . You will have regular clinical and professional supervision including access to specialist clinical supervision (i.e. EMDR, CAT, CBT). We have a strong network of diverse and supportive psychology colleagues who meet regularly as part of peer networking across East Sussex and the wider SPFT.
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has teaching status and is developing into one of the country’s leading teaching mental health trusts.
Psychological Therapies are highly valued in SPFT and Psychological Therapists occupy a range of senior positions across the Trust. Close attention is paid to equality and diversity across the trust and especially within psychological therapies, with new leadership programmes available and mentoring opportunities for PPT staff from underrepresented groups.
Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Living and Working in East Sussex:
- Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns. There’s always somewhere new to visit.
- Enjoy the city life and visit Brighton, or even travel to London in under 90 minutes
Schools
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We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In order to be a successful Senior Practitioner Psychologist in our team you will;
- Be a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, with HCPC registration
- Be analytical and show good attention to detail
- Be comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role.
- Be Passionate about working with people with a range of complex mental health needs
SPFT staff have the capacity to work from home remotely where applicable and in agreement with your line manager.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:
For further information or an informal conversation about the role or your support needs please contact Emma Justice, Principal Psychologist, Lewes & Havens ATS at [email protected] or Sarah Mansfield Consultant Clinical Psychologist at [email protected] Tel: 07471 031493
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- *For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Demonstrate specialist experience gained postqualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours).
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience or demonstrable knowledge of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
- Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Justice
- Job title
- Principal Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01825761177
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