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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
6 months (fixed term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
354-PC-20691
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wentworth House, Crawley Hospital
Town
Crawley
Salary
£62,215 - £72,293 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2025 23:59

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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Clinical Lead for Op Courage

NHS AfC: Band 8b

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 motivated and passionate Clinical Lead to lead the Op Courage Veterans Mental Health Service for Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Working in Partnership with Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we deliver this essential service for military veterans across the Southeast. The post holder will clinically lead the service driving excellence in the mental health care of military veterans bringing their knowledge and expertise of this specialist clinical area. OP Courage is a specialist multidisciplinary team consisting of psychiatry, nursing, psychology and peer workers. The team provides comprehensive assessment and evidence based treatments as well as working closely with other military charities and organisations to support our veteran community.

The role demands a dynamic and proactive experienced clinician with strong proven clinical leadership skills. The post holder will have a strong commitment to the mental health needs of the veteran community and will strive for clinical excellence in their own clinical delivery and for that of the team.

The post holder will have a strong commitment to the involvement and engagement of  the veteran community and their families in the delivery and ongoing clinical development of the service. They will have a quality improvement focus and commitment to evidence based practice together with ensuring robust clinical governance structures are in place. 

Main duties of the job

• To provide oversight of the clinical provision of the Op Courage service across the stepped care pathway. This will include the provision of highly specialist psychological therapy, and oversight of assessment, formulation and interventions based on highly specialist experience of working in mental health services and of delivering appropriate interventions.
• To be responsible for the clinical governance of the Op Courage service with a particular focus on clinical supervision and case management, and the line management of the Clinical and Psychological Therapists. An imperative part of the post is the responsibility for ensuring effective and safe clinical governance structures and leadership processes are in place for the Op Courage service.
• To provide clinical leadership to staff delivering Op Courage interventions, offering advice and consultation on client’s psychological care to individuals working within the service and others, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's and trust's policies and procedures.
• To utilise research and audit skills to provide leadership around audit, service evaluation and research activity within the Op Courage service.
• To work closely with the General Manager who will provide operational leadership to the Op Courage service, ensuring

Working for our organisation

We are an expanding and exciting specialist service within SPFT, working regional in the South East and nationally as part of the NHS armed forces networks for Op courage.

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full details of the role responsibilities can be found within attached job description.

If you would like to know more about the role please contact Juliet.[email protected] for a discussion.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Holder of an HCPC regulated Clinical/Counselling Psychology qualification
  • Training in evidence-based psychological therapy for PTSD
Desirable criteria
  • Post graduate certificate in evidence based psychological treatments and eligible for BABCP accreditation
  • Psychology degree

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Commitment to continuing professional development, to partnership working and to reflective clinical practice
  • Evidence of experience of working with traumatised people including those with PTSD and C-PTSD
  • Evidence of developing professional relationships with community agencies
  • Experience of working in Primary Care Services
  • Experience of working in the local community
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of service development, research and service evaluation
  • Evidence of providing specialist consultation and liaison with other services, including non-psychologists, third sector organisations, service users and carers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Juliet Couche
Job title
Interim Clinical Director Brighton & Hove Division
Email address
[email protected]
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