Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AE-21159
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Anne's
- Town
- Hastings
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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
Are you a Practitioner Psychologist with a passion for working with Older Adults? Whether you are experienced or newly qualified - we want to hear from you!
Applications are invited from Practitioner Psychologists to join our well established multi-disciplinary team in Specialist Older Adult Mental Health Services (SOAMHS). You'll be based in Hastings, working collaboratively with psychiatrists, MHWPs, mental health nurses, occupational therapists and therapy assistants.
Please talk with us if you have an area of work you're passionate about and keen to develop expertise in, such as dementia care, neuropsychology, developing skills in CAIT, family work, trauma or complex emotional and relational needs. We'd be keen to hear and see what we can do to support your career development.
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. You will be creative and flexible and able to inspire others in working with older people with complex mental health problems and comorbidities (including frailty and dementia), 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.
You 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.
Working for our organisation
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. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
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
· Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
· Excellent NHS Pension
· 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 Hastings:
· Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there’s always new experiences to be enjoyed
· The city is also host to lots of cosy pubs and quirky bars for you to visit, and good shopping facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Ideally, the post-holder will have a specialist interest and experience of 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.
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
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 community mental health services in Hastings.
You will work as a member of the clinical team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers. In addition, to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training.
You will participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to assistant, trainee and more junior psychologists and other staff. You will utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
See full Job Description for details
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.
Please do contact us for a chat if you want to check whether your experience meets the needs of the role.
For further information regarding the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust please visit our careers site https://careers.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
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.
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
- Jane Vinnicombe
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07738756962
- Additional information
For informal enquiries, or to learn more about the post or arrange an informal visit to the team you are welcome to contact Dr. Jane Vinnicombe, (Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologist) on 07738756962 [email protected] or Heather Lewis, Team Manager - [email protected].
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