Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Term time hours
- Annualised hours
- Job ref
- 354-AN-20805
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Horsham Neighbourhood MH Team
- Town
- North Street
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa / pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 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 keen to grow your skills in working with adults with a range of presenting needs, or soon to qualify, this is an ideal post for you. Located in the Horsham Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT), this post involves working directly with service users, families, carers and the wider system providing complex assessments, evidence-based interventions and support to MDT colleagues with psychological practice.
We welcome applications from qualified Practitioner Psychologists, as well as current third year trainees applying for their first qualified post.
Our service users experience severe and enduring mental health difficulties and often struggle with social problems and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties. We are keen for the post holder to develop expertise on one of our clinical pathways such as psychosis and bipolar, Complex Emotional Needs and complex PTSD, and moderate-severe OCD/anxiety/depression.
Main duties of the job
To carry out specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, in order to reach a psychological formulation of the client’s difficulties.
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is committed to becoming a diverse employer and inclusive workplace in which people from all backgrounds can belong and pursue enriching careers. We aspire to reflect the communities we serve and, therefore, encourage applications from candidates from a variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Please do contact us (below) for an informal conversation about the post or to arrange a visit. We would love to meet you and hear your ideas. Interviews will take place in person, in New Park House, Horsham.
Dr Emma Bell, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead for Psychology and Psychological Therapies in North West Sussex Adult Community Services [email protected] 07738758120
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as a member of the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers. In addition, to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training and by participating in systematic clinical governance. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.
· To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
· To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
· To clinically supervise assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
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.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
- High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice
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
- Bucci Fafa Young
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Emma Bell
Dr Emma Bell
Consultant Clinical PsychologistLead for Psychological Therapies in Adult Mental Health Community Services,
North West Sussex
Mobile: 07738758120
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