Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 34 hours per week
- Job ref
- 150-MT2183-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- D3 Dyke Building Brighton General Hospital
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per-annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Senior Clinical Psychologist Community Neuro Rehab Team Brighton and Hove
Are you passionate about neuropsychology and looking to make a real impact in people’s lives?
Do you thrive in a multidisciplinary team environment?
We’re inviting applications for a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to join our friendly and supportive Community Neurorehabilitation Team in Brighton and Hove. We are a collaborative team that values psychological input and works together to deliver holistic person-centred care.
This is a rewarding opportunity to work with adults living with acquired brain injuries and other neurological conditions, supporting their rehabilitation and wellbeing in a community setting. You’ll be a core member of a skilled multidisciplinary team, delivering specialist psychological care and shaping the future of neurorehabilitation services.
We are looking for a dynamic, creative and compassionate Clinical Psychologist who brings experience, motivation and a commitment to high quality care.
Travel is expected across the area with most sessions delivered via home visits. Some sessions may be delivered through telephone and video consultation, as clinically appropriate.
The role is for 34 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
What You’ll Be Doing
· Working as a core member of the multidisciplinary neurological rehabilitation team
· Carrying a clinical caseload and delivering a high-quality specialist neuropsychology service to adults living with neurological conditions and to their carers.
· Providing expert consultation and advice to MDT colleagues and carers to enhance psychological care.
· Offering training, supervision, and support to the MDT and other professionals working with neurological conditions.
· Receiving regular supervision from a senior Clinical Psychologist specialising in neuropsychology.
· Potentially supervising Graduate, Assistant, and Trainee Clinical Psychologists, contributing to their development and the growth of the service.
· Working autonomously within professional guidelines, with a strong focus on clinical governance and evidence-based practice.
· Using research skills to contribute to audits and service development.
· Travelling across the Trust area using your own vehicle to deliver care in homes, clinics, and community settings and for meetings, training and supervision.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To work as a core member of the multidisciplinary neurological rehabilitation team.
2. Carrying a clinical caseload and ensuring the provision of a high quality specialist neuropsychology service to adults living with a neurological condition and to their carers
3. Offering specialist advice and consultation to patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers
4. Providing consultation, training, and support to the MDT and to other professionals working with people with neurological conditions.
5. To receive supervision from a Principal Clinical Psychologist specialising in Neuropsychology. Potentially offering supervision to Graduate Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and working together to develop the service.
6. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice.
7. To utilise research skills potentially for audit, policy and service development and research.
8. To propose and implement policy changes within the Community Neuro Rehab Team.
9. The post holder is expected to drive between visits using their own car and will be required to travel to other office/ hospital based locations across the Trust for meetings, training and supervision.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology.
- HCPC Registration as a Clinical Psychologist.
- Current practising certificate.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical supervision training.
- Specialist training relevant to neuropsychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a specialist level within neuropsychology.
- Experience of working with and assessing a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient, residential care settings, 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment.
- Well established knowledge and skills in using a broad range of advanced assessments and tests relevant to neurological clients.
- Specialist knowledge and experience of interpretation and writing up a range of neuropsychological assessment tests.
- Substantial experience of providing psychological and neuropsychological interventions to adults with progressive and/or acquired neurological conditions.
- Experience of delivering teaching and training to other professionals.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists and other members of the MDT.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Specialist understanding of the importance of professional boundaries and how to manage and maintain them.
Desirable criteria
- Research and audit experience leading to publication.
- Experience of working together with service users to ensure that they are equal partners in service design, and evaluation, research, and training.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies relevant to psychology and neuropsychology.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
- Knowledge of legislation and national policies relevant to adults with progressive and acquired neurological conditions.
- Knowledge and understanding of the principles of confidentiality and the Data Protection Act.
- Ability to take a global view of service needs and resources.
- Support of the values and beliefs of the biopsychosocial models of work
- The belief that people with physical and mental illness have the capacity for personal growth and learning.
- The belief that service users have the intrinsic right to be involved in all aspects of their care, where possible and appropriate, including the development and evaluation of the service.
- Commitment to and enthusiasm for multidisciplinary team working.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to influence these skills in others. Negotiation and influencing skills Ability to lead and implement successful change management
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Excellent IT Skills.
Desirable criteria
- Research and audit experience leading to publication.
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
- Lucy O'Neill
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273 242271
- Additional information
or contact Dulcie Howard 01273 242271 team lead to discuss if interested
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