Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a (or Band 7 to 8a preceptorship)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AB-20771
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Mental Health Centre
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £43,742 - £57,349 Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist, East SOAMHS
NHS AfC: Band 8a (or Band 7 to 8a preceptorship)
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
Applications are invited from Practitioner Psychologists registered with the HCPC for a permanent Band 8a post (up to 22.5 hours per week) with options for flexible working in the Brighton & Hove Specialist Older Adults' Mental Health Team (SOAMHS), based in our East Brighton hub.
This post is also available at Band 7 with preceptorship to Band 8a.
If you are new to working in SOAMHS we will be keen to consider any additional specialist training relevant to the post to support you to develop your knowledge, skills and confidence in this area.
You might also be interested in developing a specialism within your role to build your expertise in an area of interest, such as within dementia, neuropsychology, developing skills in CAIT, family work, trauma or complex emotional and relational needs. Please talk with us if you have an area of work you're passionate about and would like to develop and we'll see if we can support you.
Main duties of the job
SOAMHS is a multi-professional community team and psychologists are valued members of the service, offering specialist assessment and interventions, including neuropsychology. The post-holder will be creative and flexible and able to inspire others in working with people with dementia and older people with complex mental health problems, their families and carers.
Psychologists in SOAMHS are key members of our local leadership team and play a valuable role in team and service development. Our SOAMHS teams place a strong emphasis on co-production and drawing on the expertise of people with lived experience and we welcome staff who share these values to join our service.
We encourage and support flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, 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.
Working for our organisation
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
Your benefits:
- Access to a host of discount schemes including reductions on fuel, high street and online purchases, as well as Blue Light Card advantages!
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
- Excellent NHS Pension
- Discounted gym memberships
- Free parking on-site
- A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
- Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
Living & working in Brighton:
- Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there’s always new experiences to be enjoyed
- Great transport links with Brighton train station linking up directly with major cities such as Portsmouth and London, whilst also being a 30-minute train ride to Gatwick Airport
- The city is also host to lots of cosy pubs and quirky bars for you to visit
- There are also plenty of shops for you to browse during your lunch break or after work, with Churchill shopping centre being the main attraction
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
REQUIREMENTS
In order to be a successful Practitioner Psychologist in our team, you will have:
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent).
- Professional registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings and a full range of clinical severity.
- Specialist experience gained post-qualification of working as an applied psychologist.
The successful candidate will have skills and interests in supporting colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work and in contributing psychological perspectives to client's care plans. Another key role will be developing psychological formulation and team consultation and providing support, supervision and training to enhance psychologically based interventions within the wider team.
Ideally, the post-holder will have a specialist interest in working with people in later life and people experiencing a dementia, their families and carers. You may also have specialist skills in dementia care or neuropsychology, or be interested in developing skills in these areas.
You will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic multi-professional team and community of psychologists and psychological therapists working within SOAMHS locally and across the Trust. There will also be opportunities to connect with the broader psychological workforce working in the community mental health services in Brighton & Hove.
We are fortunate to have a neuropsychologist on the specialist register of Clinical Neuropsychologists and supervision can be provided to develop skills and competencies in this area. The broader psychological workforce has expertise in a wide range of therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy, EMDR and systemic family therapy.
For further information regarding the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust please visit our careers site https://careers.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/
Please see the attached two Job Description documents for full details of either the Band 8a role, or the alternative Band 7 role with preceptorship to Band 8a.
For informal enquiries you are very welcome to contact Dr Susan Whiting (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Brighton SOAMHS) [email protected], Dr Sarah McCrimmon (Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologist, Brighton SOAMHS [email protected] or Anne Fellbaum (Service Manager) on 0300 304 0092 to learn more about the post or arrange an informal visit to the team.
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.
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
- Dr Sarah McCrimmon
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Neuropsychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0080
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