Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AC-21225
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oaklands Centre
- Town
- Chichester
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 4
Come and join us
We’re looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to make a difference every day.
At SPFT we put people first. We’ll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You’ll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.
We’re shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work as an Assistant Psychologist in Oaklands our Acute mental health ward based in Chichester. This is new role that recognises the importance of psychological input to make inpatient admissions more therapeutic and to support timely discharges.
Oaklands Wards is a busy Adult Acute Mental Health ward with a well established, passionate and motivated MDT. We strive to deliver care is that is personalised, and collaborative. We work with people with a range of complex mental health needs so our care needs to be autism and trauma informed, where people are engaged and occupied and given a sense of hope for their future.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a confident and enthusiastic Assistant Psychologist with experience of working with adults with complex needs in a mental healthcare setting to support the acute psychology team and to enhance the psychological care of patients in the service.
You will work under the supervision of a qualified HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist to provide assessment and delivery of evidenced-based psychological interventions to individuals and groups. You will be an instrumental part of the ward team and will be involved in working closely with your interdisciplinary colleagues.
Working for our organisation
We will provide you with regular high-quality supervision from a qualified Psychologist/Psychological Therapist and the opportunity to develop skills relevant to applying for doctorate level training. We have excellent links with local training courses and a substantive inhouse CPD programme where you will have the opportunity to link in with other assistant psychologists working within the Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need to be able to work within a busy team environment, where there is always high demand for Psychology. We are keen to improve access to psychological therapies and groups. We are looking for candidates who have prior experience of working within Adult Mental Health and we would like to hear from those who already have some experience of delivering psychological interventions on either a group or individual basis. Good audit and evaluation skills are essential, together with knowledge about the application of outcome measures and feedback tools and how they inform service change. We are also looking for someone who is well organised, able to prioritise in the event of competing demands, a good time-keeper, and able to work using their own initiative, but knows when to ask for help.
We are aware of the need for great diversity within the psychological professions and would welcome applications from people of the global majority, often referred to as ethnic minorities in the UK. We would also encourage applications from those with lived experience either as a service user or carer of some with mental health difficulties.
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
- Relevant clinical and research skills
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Basic knowledge of databases, research skills and methodology
- Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a health context
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- lucy Delaney
- Job title
- Clinical Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07765806893
- Additional information
Charlotte Millett - Senior Clinical Psychologist
email: [email protected]
Phone: -01243 791898
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