Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 354-AC-21188
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chapel Street Clinic
- Town
- Chichester
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist
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
If you are soon to qualify or keen to grow your skills in working with adults with a range of presenting needs this is an ideal post for you. Located in the Chichester Assessment and Treatment service (ATS) this post involves working directly with service users, families, carers and the wider system providing assessments, interventions and support to MDT colleagues. Our service users experience severe and enduring MH difficulties (including psychosis, bipolar mood, complex emotional needs). We have expanded our complex emotional needs (CEN) and psychosis pathways with transformation monies, posts and training attached. Our new Neighbourhood Team model aligns with NHS England plans to bring us closer to our communities, working alongside third sector colleagues, focusing on equality and diversity in the provision of services. We are led by a strong and compassionate leadership team and work hard to retain our staff, supporting them to grow and develop within our services.
We are keen to recruit someone with an interest in psychosis and / or OCD (other interests also supported). Experience is helpful but not essential as we can support you to access training and supervision. We work with research colleagues such as Prof Kathy Greenwood and Prof Clara Strauss in bringing research clinics (eg. voices clinic, OCD clinic, SlowMo) into the real world of our ATS teams. We have strong links with the University of Surrey Family Interventions in psychosis training.
Main duties of the job
In addition to the delivery of evidence-based psychological assessments and interventions, You will work closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues to support with case formulation and risk assessment. There will be opportunities to supervise band 5 and 6 psychological practitioners including assistant psychologists, mental health wellbeing practitioners and trainee clinical or counselling psychologists.
Chichester ATS has a small community of psychological professionals led by an experienced 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist. There are regular opportunities to join with the wider group of PPs across Western Coastal West Sussex, sharing skills, training, supervision and where appropriate working together across teams. You will receive clinical supervision from an experienced practitioner psychologist with expertise in the interventions you are delivering and we have access to a range of additional supervision groups depending on your interests and needs.
SPFT places a strong emphasis on ongoing CPD with access to both internal and external trainings through our practice networks. We also understand the growing importance of leadership in the modern NHS and have set up bespoke leadership training programmes for Psychological practitioners across the pay bands in SPFT with a strong emphasis on compassionate leadership and wellbeing for staff.
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, seaside towns and historic cities.
· 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’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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
REQUIREMENTS
In order to be a successful Practitioner Psychologist in our team you will:
- Be a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, registered with the HCPC
- Have experience/understanding of evidence based assessments and interventions for people with severe and enduring MH difficulties.
- Be comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role, where you will support us in developing our pathways
It would also be advantageous if you are:
- Experienced in providing supervision and teaching
- Have existing qualifications in CBTp or family interventions
We are committed to the promotion of excellent professional standards by embedding professional practice within the Trust clinical governance structures and we facilitate continuing professional development by a range of support structures including regular professional meetings. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust promotes high quality clinical research, and our links with the research and development department are valued and strong.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Please do contact us (below) for an informal conversation about the posts or to arrange a visit. We would love to meet you and hear your ideas. Interviews will take place in person, in Chapel Street, Chichester.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate 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 as approved by the HCPC
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological working (assessment, formulation and treatment) with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
- High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
- Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
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
- Naomi Horton
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07738 758379
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