Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (November 2026 - November 2027)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days per week)
- Job ref
- 354-AB-21120
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mill View
- Town
- Hove
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2026 08:00
Employer heading
Senior Practitioner Psychologist / Psychological Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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 tools like AI are becoming part of everyday life and you may choose to use them when preparing your application. We welcome this, as long as what you submit reflects your own experience, skills and voice. AI can be helpful for structuring or refining your answers, but it should not replace your own examples or create content that isn’t based on your real experience.
Our recruitment process is designed to get to know you, and we’ll explore your examples further at interview, so it’s important your application genuinely represents what you bring. You can read more about using AI in applications and interviews on our recruitment process page.
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
Applications are invited from Psychological Professionals (Practitioner psychologist, or psychotherapist/psychological therapist) for a 12-month fixed-term post (maternity cover) providing psychological input within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service based at Mill View Hospital in Hove. This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, motivated, creative and enthusiastic Psychological Professional interested in working within Adult Urgent Care, to join our existing skilled and motivated multidisciplinary teams. The successful applicant will work closely with the psychology and therapies team across the hospital, and wider Division.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a key member of the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team and must have a strong commitment to multi-disciplinary working. The role is varied and diverse and includes assessment and formulation of people with complex presentations, working with the whole team to develop formulations and care plans, direct group and individual interventions with service users and their families, supporting the wider team in their application of psychologically-informed approaches and supervision of colleagues.
Working for our organisation
We will support you in this role and provide regular clinical and professional supervision. We believe that the best way to provide outstanding care to our patients is through teamwork and sharing our ideas. We have close links with the Clinical Psychology training schemes at Salomons and the University of Surrey offering trainee placements and engaging in research projects.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for a psychological practitioner / psychological therapist with the ability to innovate and implement service improvements. The post-holder will ideally be familiar with working in an NHS setting. Experience in working with people with severe and complex mental health difficulties in crisis (across the age span) is a benefit to this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment across outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings
- Post-qualification experience as a practitioner psychologist with approximately 50 hours of clinical supervision
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, design and complex data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of applied psychology
- Experience working with diverse client groups across the lifespan, addressing a wide range of clinical severities, and maintaining a high degree of professionalism in challenging situations.
- Skilled in teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of applying psychology in different cultural contexts and working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
- Experience or demonstrable knowledge of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
- Knowledge of relevant national and local guidance, legislation, and mental health frameworks
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc
- High-level proficiency in at least two specialised psychological therapies and neuropsychology, with continued practice or training post-qualification.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
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
- Dr Emily Gray
- Job title
- Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07391408850
- Additional information
Tina Hart
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Mill View Hospital
Tim Hewett
Service Manager
Urgent Care Pathway
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