Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time substantive Psychologist to join our supportive and dedicated team at Chalkhill.
You would be supported to work closely with the multidisciplinary team, including Occupational Therapy, Family Therapy, Social Worker as well as Psychiatry and Nursing team and would be able to take on an active role in the design and implementation of innovations in care.
The Trust is supportive of ongoing professional development, and you would be supported to access regular CPD in addition to benefitting from a wide range of learning through the Trust training department. This post would suit a motivated psychologist who is dedicated to delivering high-quality care to young people and their families. We are very passionate about growing and developing our clinical psychologists in Tier 4 CAMHS and we therefore welcome applications from Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
We welcome enquiries about the post and would be happy to support applicants to have an informal visit to the service. Please contact the Lead Psychologist on 01444 472670 to find out more.
Main duties of the job
As a practitioner psychologist at Chalkhill, you will assess, plan, implement and evaluate psychological interventions delivered in the service as part of the psychological therapies team.
Opportunities would be available to develop your supervision and leadership skills in order to support your ongoing career development. Regular clinical supervision would be provided, and you would be supported to continue developing and expanding upon your clinical and professional skills.
The position is full-time (37.5 hours per week). We know that a positive work-life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working options.
About us
We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and are one of the largest providers of children and young people's mental health services across this area.
Chalkhill is one of very few adolescent inpatient services in England to provide a service for young people aged 13 to 18 years old presenting with a wide range of difficulties including severe mental health and/or complex neurodevelopmental conditions requiring assessment and/or intervention. You would be joining a dynamic and enthusiastic psychological therapies team formed by the Lead Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Psychologist and Trainee Psychologist, in providing effective assessment and evidence-based individual and group interventions to young people and their families or carers.
Our offer is for a career not just a job, in a team and a Trust committed to delivering the best care possible to the community whilst being committed to the wellbeing of its staff. Our staff are our greatest asset.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will take an active part in the day to day life on the unit including attending ward rounds and team meetings. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing evidence based individual and group work and will work closely with your multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver a high quality safe and effective service. You will contribute to admission and discharge processes and be able to effectively assess risk and develop risk formulation and management plans. You will utilize and promote the use of outcome measures and feedback tools within the service and support quality improvement projects. You will be expected to value and promote collaborative working and our team ethos of young person and family centred care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will take an active part in the day to day life on the unit including attending ward rounds and team meetings. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing evidence based individual and group work and will work closely with your multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver a high quality safe and effective service. You will contribute to admission and discharge processes and be able to effectively assess risk and develop risk formulation and management plans. You will utilize and promote the use of outcome measures and feedback tools within the service and support quality improvement projects. You will be expected to value and promote collaborative working and our team ethos of young person and family centred care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, approved by the HPC
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
- *For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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 the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
- 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)
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HPC
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, approved by the HPC
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
- *For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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 the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
- 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)
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HPC
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).
