Job summary
To provide a range of specialist psychological interventions designed to support & facilitate teams and individuals within the Trust with wellbeing and promoting psychologically informed healthcare.
To work with the Mental Health Lead and the Connect Clinical Lead Psychologist in managing the various requests for consultation and intervention received by the Connect service.
To provide specialist advice and consultation to multi-disciplinary healthcare clinicians around patients' psychological care and individual and team aspects of wellbeing.
To provide training and education to SCFT colleagues and, where relevant, staff in other services and agencies to promote the development of psychological understanding and psychologically and trauma informed interventions
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, including reflective practice and post-incident support sessions.
To assess, coordinate and respond to requests for 1:1 and team support.
To formulate and contribute to management plans to support individual staff members and teams following a traumatic event, including signposting instances of PTSD or other conditions to appropriate services for support.
To promote trauma informed practice across SCFT through training, networking and consultation.
To contribute directly to the governance of psychological practice within Connect and wider Trust initiatives.
To be responsible for the evaluation of psychological decisions around support, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models.
To provide expertise, advice and support to multidisciplinary team members, including colleagues in partner agencies, to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care for staff using the connect service.
To participate in risk assessment and risk management for individual staff, and to provide consultation to other less experienced psychologists and other professionals.
To work as part of Connect to ensure the provision of support appropriate to staff needs, and, as a member of the team, to participate in the monitoring of participants' support during the course of an intervention.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job description
Job responsibilities
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording and analysis, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, HCPC (or other relevant body) and the Trusts policies and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording and analysis, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, HCPC (or other relevant body) and the Trusts policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working as a qualified psychological Professional
- Post-qualification experience of working with a range of adult and/or CYP mental health problems including complex, severe and chronic psychological problems
- Experience of facilitating reflective practice and/or debrief/post incident support sessions
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision in a postgraduate professional /clinical setting.
Desirable
- Demonstrate further specialist experience of working in a physical healthcare setting and within a multidisciplinary team
Qualification
Essential
- A registered/accredited psychological professional: HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Practising Psychologist; BACP or UKCP accredited (or equivalent) Psychotherapist/Counsellor; and/or BABCP accredited CBT Practitioner
- Significant post-qualification experience of working as a mental health professional within an NHS context
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- The ability to be flexible to face the challenge of offering psychological interventions to people in a range of settings.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups including the facilitation of case conceptualisation, reflective practice and post event support sessions.
- Understanding the impact of trauma on staff and patients and knowledge of trauma informed practice
- Formal training in supervision or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Knowledge of research design and methodology
Other
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to travel to all sites across the locality. If not a car owner/driver, please state how you will travel.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working as a qualified psychological Professional
- Post-qualification experience of working with a range of adult and/or CYP mental health problems including complex, severe and chronic psychological problems
- Experience of facilitating reflective practice and/or debrief/post incident support sessions
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision in a postgraduate professional /clinical setting.
Desirable
- Demonstrate further specialist experience of working in a physical healthcare setting and within a multidisciplinary team
Qualification
Essential
- A registered/accredited psychological professional: HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Practising Psychologist; BACP or UKCP accredited (or equivalent) Psychotherapist/Counsellor; and/or BABCP accredited CBT Practitioner
- Significant post-qualification experience of working as a mental health professional within an NHS context
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- The ability to be flexible to face the challenge of offering psychological interventions to people in a range of settings.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups including the facilitation of case conceptualisation, reflective practice and post event support sessions.
- Understanding the impact of trauma on staff and patients and knowledge of trauma informed practice
- Formal training in supervision or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Knowledge of research design and methodology
Other
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to travel to all sites across the locality. If not a car owner/driver, please state how you will travel.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
