Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AC-21179
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Swandean
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2025 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
An excellent opportunity has become available for a Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Worthing Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team, (CRHT.)
The CRHT provide assessments, therapeutic interventions, for adults who are experiencing moderate to severe complex mental health difficulties. We work as a close and supportive multidisciplinary team to provide high quality, timely and evidence based psychological interventions.
Main duties of the job
This post will offer a full range of evidence-based psychological interventions as well as complex assessments, formulations and consultations to colleagues from other disciplines within the team. You will be a strong team player who will support other MDT colleagues to deliver psychologically informed interventions though the provision of supervision and reflective practice and where appropriate, to supervise Band 6 Psychological therapists. We will also look to our new post-holders to support wider pathway working, working alongside other teams to support service users at points of transition between services. We are very excited about these developments and the positive impact it is likely to have on the local communities that our CRHT's serve.
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services in and across Sussex. The Trust has teaching status and is developing into one of the country’s leading teaching mental health trusts. Psychological Therapies are highly valued in Sussex Partnership and Psychological Therapists occupy a range of senior positions across the Trust. Working here offers continued training and development, variety, plus all the benefits of living in Sussex. West Sussex is a beautiful county with great schools, good transport links, vibrant communities, rural areas, and tourist attractions, including the Coast and the South Downs. We would welcome informal visits and / or a telephone call to tell you more about our service and this post. The Trust has recently been rated by the CQC as Good overall and Outstanding for care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As part of the wider adult mental health service you will also be joining an established community of psychologists and psychological therapists who bring a rich variety of skills. We place a high value on staff wellbeing and you will receive regular clinical supervision from an experienced clinical or counselling psychologist as well as a commitment to your own continuing professional development. Sussex Partnership is well-known for the excellent range of CPD opportunities available to staff including accredited training in EMDR, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Family Interventions in Psychosis, Interpersonal Psychotherapy and many more.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
- Experience working with diverse client groups across the lifespan, managing a range of clinical severity, while maintaining professionalism in the face of emotional distress, verbal abuse, and potential physical threats.
- Experience of applying psychology in different cultural contexts and working within a multicultural framework
- Proficiency in at least two specialised psychological therapies and neuropsychology, with continued practice or training postqualification
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Pallavi Bala
- Job title
- Principal Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07471217099
- Additional information
We are really keen to talk to prospective candidates about the service and about their ideas for the role. We would therefore strongly encourage you to make contact for an informal discussion. You can speak with me, Pallavi Bala, Principal Psychologist and West Sussex Professional Lead for Psychological Therapies or Emma Kaye-Taylor , Service Manager, We would be very happy to arrange an informal visit if you would like to come and meet with our teams.
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