Job overview

B8a Clinical Psychologist 9 month maternity leave cover 

We are seeking to recruit a passionate, knowledgeable and dynamic Clinical Psychologist to join our Specialist Family Eating Disorder Service (SFEDS) based at Aldrington House Hove.  SFEDS works with young people aged 10-18 with an eating disorder and their families across Sussex, and supports recovery through evidenced based interventions such as the Maudsley Family Therapy models and E-CBT.  We pride ourselves on delivering high quality evidenced based treatment in accordance with NICE Guidelines and National Access and Waiting Times Standards.

You will be joining a service of highly skilled and experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapists, Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Psychology and Assistant Psychologists, Nurses, Dietitian, Support Workers and OTs. 

You will work as a member of the clinical service/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. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

We offer and support hybrid and flexible working, we require staff to be on site for 60% of their working week.

Main duties of the job

·       To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service.

·       To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload.

·       To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.

·       To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate.

·       To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists

·       To complete assessments of those referred to the service and outcome this in a timely manner in line with code of Conduct

·       To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision as appropriate.

·       To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.

·       To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services.

·       To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally.

Working for our organisation

At SPFT we provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children. 

Working in Sussex:

·       Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns

·       Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London

·       With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We’d love you to join our organisation that is 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.

Key staff survey results include:

·       70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work

·       79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team

·       77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles