Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AE-21005
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dept of Psychiatry, Eastbourne DGH
- Town
- Eastbourne
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
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
We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate, and creative HCPC registered Senior Practitioner Psychologist to join our multidisciplinary team on an older adult inpatient ward (Heathfield Ward). You would be fully integrated into the team, providing high quality psychological thinking to the delivery of care on the ward.
Heathfield ward is an 18-bedded ward providing acute mental health inpatient support to women over 65 years of age, from across Sussex. Our team includes psychiatrists, specialist mental health nurses, occupational therapists, and healthcare assistants. We are keen to develop psychology on the ward, so in this role you will be supported in providing placements to trainee clinical psychologists, and psychology graduate volunteers.
You will be part of the wider East Sussex Older Adult psychology network, which provides peer supervision and reflective practice opportunities. Sussex has an established and supportive Psychological Professions network, providing opportunities for CPD and supervision, as well as clear and established working practices.
We are building a new hospital in Bexhill to replace our inpatient services at the Department of Psychiatry. This means that, if you are successful in your application, you will be asked to transfer to the new facilities when they open in 2025. More information about our plans are on our website: https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/about-us/how-our-trust-run/new-mental-health-hospital-bexhill
Main duties of the job
You will be providing specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment to clients on the ward, and offering specialist interventions including individual and family interventions, as clinically indicated.
You will provide psychological expertise to support reflective practice groups and team formulations. There is also the opportunity to develop new group interventions and deliver training to staff to support psychological thinking.
We are looking for someone who has the ability to work autonomously within the context of a busy multi-disciplinary team.
You will have an opportunity to contribute to and support developments to improve access to psychological therapies for older people with severe mental health problems. There are opportunities to utilise research skills for audit and research within the area.
You will receive high standards of clinical and professional supervision from the East Sussex Professional Lead for Older Adult Psychology, as well as peer-group and modality-specific supervision where appropriate. You would have a clear and co-produced job plan to support your work, and professional development.
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex.
We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the Care Quality Commission.
Other key staff 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
· Whilst currently working in Eastbourne, there is the opportunity to travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns- there's always new experiences to be enjoyed
· There is a well-established and supportive Older Adult psychology network providing opportunities for peer supervision and collaboration.
· We support flexible working, recognising the importance of a good work life balance and the need for your work to fit with external commitments.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families, or carers. In addition, to supporting psychological practice on the ward through consultation, supervision, formulation, and training.
To participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to assistant, trainee and more junior psychologists and other staff. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
See JD and PS for full details.
For informal enquiries please contact Dr. Jane Vinnicombe, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologist on 07738756962 [email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
- 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
- Jackie Newton
- Job title
- Heathfield Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03003040293
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