Job summary
We are currently recruiting to a Senior Practitioner Psychologist or Senior Psychological Therapist in our service. You will be joining a friendly and committed group of psychological professionals within a wider multidisciplinary team, dedicated to the provision of evidence-based, trauma-informed care to those in our communities.
You would be based in Chichester Assessment and Treatment Service, a community team providing treatment and support to people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties such as psychosis, complex emotional needs (CEN) and complex PTSD. You will have opportunities to train in psychological approaches used in our care pathways (e.g. Family interventions in psychosis, schema-informed CBT, EMDR). You will work closely with psychological professionals and senior colleagues across the patch and access specialist supervision.
We are looking for individuals with excellent clinical skills, an aptitude for engaging 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 assessments, formulations, and evidence-based interventions for people with a range of mental health difficulties. As the posts sits within community services, you will offer supervision and training to both psychological professionals as well as multidisciplinary colleagues. There will also be opportunities to build close working relationships with our local community of psychological professionals working into other teams. Amongst us 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 in embedding good practice and evaluating our work. For exampled the new SuPER clinic led by Prof Kathy Greenwood (see attached information) and Compassionate Resilience Group trials for cPTSD led by Prof Nick Grey and Deborah Lee
About us
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 and seaside towns
Embrace the South Coast with a great range of historic and contemporary seaside towns
According to the Met Office West Sussex is the sunniest county in the UK, making exploring the vast countryside all the more enjoyable
We also have great schools locally.
Chichester ATS is based in the heart of the historic city of Chichester with access to all it has to offer. The building has wheelchair access to all floors and fully accessible rooms.
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
To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.
Job description
Job responsibilities
REQUIREMENTS
In order to be a successful Practitioner Psychologist or Psychological Therapist in our team you will:
- Be a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, registered with the HCPC or an accredited Psychological Therapist (refer to the JDs attached).
- Have experience/understanding of evidence-based assessments and interventions for people with severe and enduring mental health needs.
- Be comfortable working in a varied role.
We are committed to inclusive recruitment and to eliminating gaps in opportunities, and pay with respect to race, disability and gender. We recognise that our workforce is underrepresented from black and minority ethnic and disabled communities and would welcome applications from people from these communities. We are part of the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and would welcome contact (see below) if you require any reasonable adjustments through the recruitment or interview process. https://careers.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/working-for-us/belong-here
See attached Job Descriptions and additional documents for full details. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions, for an informal conversation or to arrange to visit the service. We look forward to hearing from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
REQUIREMENTS
In order to be a successful Practitioner Psychologist or Psychological Therapist in our team you will:
- Be a qualified Practitioner Psychologist, registered with the HCPC or an accredited Psychological Therapist (refer to the JDs attached).
- Have experience/understanding of evidence-based assessments and interventions for people with severe and enduring mental health needs.
- Be comfortable working in a varied role.
We are committed to inclusive recruitment and to eliminating gaps in opportunities, and pay with respect to race, disability and gender. We recognise that our workforce is underrepresented from black and minority ethnic and disabled communities and would welcome applications from people from these communities. We are part of the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and would welcome contact (see below) if you require any reasonable adjustments through the recruitment or interview process. https://careers.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/working-for-us/belong-here
See attached Job Descriptions and additional documents for full details. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions, for an informal conversation or to arrange to visit the service. We look forward to hearing from you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Demonstrate specialist experience gained postqualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours).
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience or demonstrable knowledge of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
- Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Demonstrate specialist experience gained postqualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours).
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience or demonstrable knowledge of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
- Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc
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).
