Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AE-21123
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dept. of Psychiatry, Eastbourne General Hospital
- Town
- Eastbourne
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist or Psychological Therapist
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
We are delighted to have been awarded funding to appoint to this new post for our inpatient wards at the Dept of Psychiatry. This is part of the trust's ongoing commitment to ensuring our service users have access to the best therapeutic and evidence-based inpatient support. Psychological services are fundamental to this.
We have two adult wards here and the successful candidate will join a large and growing psychological professions team across East Sussex and within our inpatient and urgent care services. The service is currently at Eastbourne General Hospital but the units are moving to a brand-new purpose build hospital (Coombe Valley Hospital) within the next year.
There is considerable scope to be part of exciting developments under way in East Sussex mental health services. We are currently spearheading the establishment of a dedicated Multiple Admissions Patient Pathway (MAP) with consultant psychologist leadership based on the systemic principles of Open Dialogue.
Main duties of the job
This is post is most likely to be particularly attractive to recently qualified psychologists (or trainees soon to qualify) as well as accredited psychological therapists. As such the successful candidate will benefit from expert support and supervision to develop their skills and career.
They will work within a supportive multi-disciplinary team and help in providing psychological opinion and formulations, and contribute to the development of psychological thinking, understanding and interventions/ approaches within the multi-disciplinary team. They will also be in a position to offer consultation, assessments and focused, short-term individual and group interventions.
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.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will be a part of the wider East Sussex Psychological Professions group who work closely together and collaborate to promote and support the development and implementation of effective psychological services across our county. They will also be part of the Trust’s Adult Acute Psychological network, which provides specialist guidance and support on governance and best practice, including specialty CPD days.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a leading teaching and research mental health trust. We were granted teaching status in 2008 in recognition of our research background and our links with the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and other academic institutions. Currently we are in the top 12 mental health trusts in terms of research participants. Applicants with an interest in research will be welcomed.
Working here offers continued training and development, variety and a rewarding challenge, plus the benefits of living in Sussex, by the sea, in the beautiful South Downs or in any one of the exciting towns and cities we have to offer.
If you would like to ask anything or have a chat about this opportunity, please do get in touch.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post is to support the provision of psychological and psychologically-informed interventions to service user in our acute units in Eastbourne. The ward accept adults of working age with a range of severe mental health problems that require inpatient admission. This might be for problems including psychosis, personality issues and severe or risky mood disorders. As such it is a point in people's lives when they may be very vulnerable and good psychological support is especially important.
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 HPC
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
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 HPC
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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
- Patrick McGuinness
- Job title
- Lead psychologist, East Sussex
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07787727671
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