Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 18 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.7 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AC-21131
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Arun NMHT, Pepperville House
- Town
- Littlehampton
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist, Psychological Therapist or Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
This is an excellent opportunity to join a creative and dynamic psychological professions team working across the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams in coastal West Sussex. We are committed to making our service a great place to work, where everyone has access to excellent CPD and supervision, and opportunities for training in approaches relevant to our care pathways.
We encourage applications from Practitioner Psychologists, Psychological Therapists and Psychotherapists interested in providing treatment and support to people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, including psychosis, complex emotional needs (CEN) and complex PTSD. You will join a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team in Arun district.
We are looking for someone with excellent clinical skills, able to engage positively with colleagues, service users, and the wider community. You will be able to think creatively with partnership organisations, modelling our strong commitment to trauma-informed approaches, co-production, and inclusion.
Main duties of the job
As a psychological professional, you will offer assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for people with a range of mental health difficulties. Experience of working with psychosis is desirable. As the post sits within community services, you will offer supervision and training to both psychological professionals and multidisciplinary colleagues. You will build close working relationships with our local community of psychological professionals working into other teams. As a professional group, we have a rich and diverse range of skills and experience, and pride ourselves on being a helpful and supportive group. Your career progression is important to us, and we will provide local opportunities to develop leadership and supervision skills.
We have strong links with our Research and Development Department and there are multiple opportunities to work alongside R&D colleagues to embed good practice and evaluate our work. For example the new SuPER clinic led by Prof Kathy Greenwood and Compassionate Resilience Group trials for cPTSD led by Prof Nick Grey and Deborah Lee.
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex.
Living and Working in West Sussex:
- Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages, contemporary seaside towns, and the Southdowns National Park on your doorstep
- Good schools and vibrant communities. West Sussex is also the sunniest county in the UK!
- Arun NMHT is based in Littlehampton, a seaside town with two award winning beaches, the beautiful River Arun and an extensive programme of cultural events. It is just 20 miles from Brighton, and a half hour drive to Chichester.
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.
Key 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached Job Description.
· To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.
· To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
· To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
· To clinically supervise assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
· To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists
· To provide consultation and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users.
· To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
· To contribute to local service developments under the supervision of the professional lead.
· To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally.
· To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised/accredited postgraduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in one of the Appendices
- Professionally registered as specified in the same Appendix
Desirable criteria
- Additional pre- and/or post-qualification training as specified in the same Appendix
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), as specified in the same Appendix, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
- Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
- A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering group interventions
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
- Moz McQuillan
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07738758379
- Additional information
We would encourage all candidates to make contact to discuss the role. Please do not hesitate to contact Moz McQuillan or Hannah Ryan, Service manager
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