Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-CS-21509
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Building
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Senior Assistant Psychologist - SPOA
NHS AfC: Band 5
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
This is an exciting opportunity for Band 5 Senior Assistant Psychologist to join the new Single Point of Access in West Sussex.
The SPOA is designed for children, young people, their families, carers and relevant professionals to ensure that they can access the most appropriate emotional wellbeing, mental health support and intervention which meets their needs at the earliest possible stage and with the minimum delay.
The SPOA aims:
- An integrated aligned and co-ordinated service is in place
- More CYP have access to appropriate mental health services first time
- More CYP have positive experiences of care and support
- Time taken to receive treatment and support is reduced
- Improved data collection and evaluation of CYP’s outcomes
Main duties of the job
This is a new and exciting post to work alongside SPoA clinicians to agree on the most appropriate care pathways for children and young people referred into SPoA.
This involves working in partnership with children, young people and their families and the wider professional networks to gather more information in order to make informed decisions on the most appropriate care pathways.
To participate in case discussions and to develop an understanding of available services and evidence based therapeutic intervention to inform decision making of the most appropriate service to signpost too.
Working for our organisation
We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Working in Sussex:
- Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns
- Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
- With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure
We’d love you to join our organisation that is 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.
Key staff survey results include:
- 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
- 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
- 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
REQUIREMENTS:
In order to be a successful Senior Assistant Psychologist in our team you will have:
- A 2:1 degree or above (or equivalent) in a Psychology related topic
- Excellent IT, audit and evaluation skills
- A passion for working within a specialist eating disorders service
It would also be advantageous if you:
- Are experienced working in CAMHS (Children and Young People’s mental health services)
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Flexibility with working patterns is desirable as we may extend the hours of our service to include some weekend and evening work
SPFT staff have the capacity to work from home remotely where applicable and in agreement with your line manager.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we reach a sufficient number of applications.
We are particularly interested in applicants who have experience of working both as a paid assistant psychologist and working with children and young people within a mental health setting.
Please apply using the link in this advert,
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we reach a sufficient number of applications.
(We are happy to arrange informal visits – currently Covid dependant)
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology, or equivalent. Eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartership with the BPS
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
- Experience of working with people with disabilities, in a health or Mental Health setting and or work with people with complex needs
- Relevant clinical and research skills
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Basic knowledge of databases, research skills and methodology
- Experience of group work and individual therapeutic contact
- Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a health context
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care
skills
Desirable criteria
- To be able to communicate effectively under pressure and maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times
- To be able to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information in a potentially highly emotive atmosphere. To be able to work with resistance to ideas.
- High standard of report writing
- To assimilate complex information and use reflective/analytic thinking, to apply psychological perspectives in work with clients
- Ability to be flexible and cope with multiple demands
- Capable of using initiative and organise work to agreed goals. Ability to work independently and know when to ask for and use supervision, identifying when there is need for advice and using supervision at agreed intervals
- Information technology skills. To have highly developed IT skills and good working knowledge of statistical packages
- Requires manual dexterity and good eye-hand coordination to administer neuropsychological tests and use computer key boards
- Able to carry out PMVA interventions
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Need to maintain frequent high levels of concentration for long periods in sessions with clients or while conducting neuropsychological testing.
- Ability to tolerate and remain calm in the face of high levels of emotional distress and emotional demands
- Ability to tolerate occasional exposure to verbal abuse and hostility
- Ability to use a PC
- To sit in sessions with clients for extended periods of time in constrained positions for client therapy and interview sessions
Applicant requirements
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
- Yvette Pinnell
- Job title
- West Sussex SPOA Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03003040462
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