Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- FTC/Secondment until 31st March 2027
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-CS-21855
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Portslade Hub
- Town
- Portslade Brighton
- Salary
- Dependant on experience
- Closing
- 04/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
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 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 looking for an Senior Clinical Psychologist to join the Brighton and Hove Children in Care Emotional Well Being Service. The focus of this service is to work together to develop positive relationships across multi-agency networks and to support plans for interventions based on a shared understanding of the needs, vulnerabilities and strengths of children and young people in care who have experienced developmental trauma.
You would join a team of psychologists and an OT based within children’s social care. Psychologists offer consultation to the network around the child, therapeutic parenting support (via co-facilitating therapeutic parenting groups and reflective practice groups for foster carers, in addition to individual therapeutic parenting support), training to social workers, psychological assessment of children’s needs, cognitive assessments and direct attachment-informed interventions with CiC and their foster carers.Brighton and Hove The team sits within Children’s Social Care, linked to their Partners in Change team. You will be supervised by a principal psychologist and have access to relevant secondary supervision packages (e.g. DDP). You will be joining a community of clinical psychologists and other professionals who meet for quarterly Pan Sussex Psychology CPD events. We have excellent links with training courses and encourage supervision of trainees on placement and teaching.
Main duties of the job
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You will contribute to the emotional wellbeing, psychological and mental health thinking of the network around a child/young person in care through offering consultations that support a comprehensive understanding of the young people’s psychological needs from an attachment and developmental trauma perspective. · You will co-facilitate Therapeutic Parenting Groups for Foster Carers, and training for Social Workers. · psychological assessments of children and young people to support greater understanding of their needs and well-being and to support identification of what further therapeutic support might be indicated.
· You will carry out, or supervise, cognitive assessments of children and young people.
· You will hold a small caseload, offering dyadic attachment-informed work. · You will be involved in continuing to grow an attachment informed community of practice through the delivery and facilitation of regular reflective practice groups for foster cares who have completed a Therapeutic Parenting Group
· You will offer clinical and professional supervision to Psychologists and potentially Assistant Psychologist/s and Trainee Psychologist/s within the service.
· Supervision will be provided by a principal clinical psychologist.
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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
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REQUIREMENTS You will -Hold a doctorate in clinical psychology and will be registered with HCPC. -Have a good understanding of the impact of developmental trauma and attachment. -Be experienced in working in CAMHS (Children and Young People’s mental health services). -Be experienced in risk management and supporting others to assess and manage risk. -Have experience of co-facilitating groups. -It would also be advantageous if you have experience of working closely with social care partners.
MAIN DUTIES · To provide consultation to the networks of Children in Care. · To co-facilitate Therapeutic Parenting Groups. · To provide training to social workers. · To provide psychological assessment and cognitive assessments of children and young people in foster care · To hold a small therapy caseload. · To provide supervision to qualified Clinical Psychologist/s, and potentially Assistant Psychologist/s and Trainee Clinical Psychologist/s.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details. Base: CiC Emotional Well Being Service, Portslade Hub, Mile Oak Rd, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 2PG
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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
- Jo Coldwell
- Job title
- Principal Psychoolgist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07471 031791
- Additional information
For more information please contact Emma Klinefelter or Jo Coldwell, Principal Clinical Psychologists, CiC Psychology Service, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Work Mobile Emma: 07901732762 / Jo: 07471 031791
Emma Klinefelter (Clinical Psychologist, [email protected] , 07901 732 762).
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