Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-CS-21856
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Aldrington Centre
- Town
- Hove.
- Salary
- Dependant on experience
- Closing
- 04/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
We are seeking a band 7 0.6 WTE Psychologist for our Brighton & Hove CAMHS FISS-ASC service.
The small team offer a service to young people who have a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC), their families and networks of support.
The team deliver specialist assessment and interventions, where autistic children and young people are presenting behaviour that challenge and which can cause physical and emotional harm to self or others (which is not driven by comorbid mental health, or a learning disability) and which adversely impacts on their functioning, and risks their access to educational and social opportunities.
The FISS-ASC aims to support keeping children and young people with their families and living in their local communities and improve quality of life therefore improving outcomes for all family members. The service provides early intervention and intensive support to families reaching crisis, with short term interventions which support a step up and step-down approach throughout their care journey.
We are looking for a suitably experienced and skilled Psychology practitioner to be part our multi-disciplinary FISS-ASC team, which includes Educational Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Assistant Psychology, and Admin support.
Main duties of the job
The team will be providing specialist psychological, functional and behavioural consultation, assessment and direct support to children and young people with autism, their families, and their systems of support, across the local community.
All the clinicians have skills in the assessment and delivery of evidenced based treatment, for understanding and supporting challenging behaviour, alongside skills in working with complex networks and systems.
The team ethos is based on valuing the expertise of the families and professionals who consult to and use the service, and this value remains central to formulation and intervention. In line with a multi-disciplinary approach, support will be offered to children, young people and their families within a holistic framework. As such, clinicians will have the opportunity to draw on a range of models which includes Systemic, Psychological, Trauma, Relational, Occupational, Behavioural, Sensory, and Psychoeducational models.
Interventions include consultation, specialist assessments, behaviour support plans, workshops, groups and individual therapeutic interventions.
Working for our organisation
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Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people. We’d love you to join our Trust, rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree; in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority. Other key survey results:
Professional development is encouraged through supervision, training, team CPD and wider CAMHS and Trust events. We welcome contact from interested candidates to find out more about the team and the role.
See the attached ‘Partnership Perks’ document for details about our benefits package.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We offer:
- Regular appraisal, personal development planning and opportunities for continuing professional development.
- Regular clinical and professional supervision
- Opportunities to work closely with multi-professional teams
- Involvement in service development
- Opportunities to provide clinical supervision and line management to other members of the team as appropriate.
- Involvement in providing training.
Team members will be expected to work as autonomous clinicians in providing specialist consultation, assessment and intervention; whilst also working closely with the multi-disciplinary team and other professionals in a variety of community settings, including school and home settings, using a range of different modalities.
They also contribute to the development of individual case formulations for all CYP, integrating clinical assessment data with evidence-based models; in order to plan interventions for CYP and families/networks, and collaboratively engage them in intervention The team are able to contribute to the development of systems, processes and procedures, which will support the FISS-ASC service in the delivery of its key objectives.
The team are expected to develop, plan and lead workshops and groups with CYP and families. -
They are also able to provide consultation, and where appropriate, supervision and training, to other professionals and clinicians.
The team maintain a high degree of professionalism when working in settings where there is a highly emotive atmosphere.
The team maintain performance data and provide regular performance updates against key performance indicators
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as approved by the HPC.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological working (assessment, formulation and treatment) with 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, inpatient and 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
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
- Zubeida Dasgupta
- Job title
- Senior Practitioner Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Fran Boulter
General Manager CAMHS
07710978409
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