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Band 8b Principal Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling Psychologist)

30 hours per week (minimum 3 days per week) - Permanent Post

Eastbourne Assessment & Treatment Service (ATS) St Marys House

We are delighted to be advertising for a Principal Practitioner Psychologist (Band 8b) to join our welcoming, highly-skilled and enthusiastic community of psychologists and psychological therapists working as part of the Eastbourne Assessment and Treatment Service.  The ATS is multi-professional and commissioned to work with working age service users with severe and complex mental health needs, their families and carers.

Applications are welcome from confident, creative and enthusiastic HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologists, ready to take on a leadership role.  You should have significant experience and skills in working with severe and complex mental health presentations, such as Complex Emotional Needs, Psychosis, trauma and mood disorders. You will have worked effectively as part of an MDT. You will have experience in consultation, delivering team formulation and supervising Psychology colleagues. We welcome applications from those working at 8a level looking to progress their career and can support your development. 

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with the Consultant Lead Psychologist to provide operational leadership to the Psychology staff at St Mary's and to ensure effective governance for the staff. This will entail overseeing MDT referrals to Psychology, and working to manage demand within the capacity of the Psychology service. In addition, the postholder will be responsible for ensuring the supervision of a group of psychologists, therapists and trainees within the service. They will co-ordinate an established structure of Psychology meetings designed to support staff, maintain connectivity, facilitate learning and decision making around complex presentations. You will hold a caseload and carry out direct clinical work. We aim to provide NICE recommended evidence-based care and are particularly interested to hear from those accredited to deliver EMDR; The postholder will support psychological practice within the wider team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. They will also be someone with experience of delivering training and supervising colleagues. They will hold research skills for audit, service development and contribute to monitoring the clinical outcomes and the impact of the Psychology service.

Working for our organisation

Eastbourne ATS is an innovative team working to embrace transformation.  We are proud of what we do and strive to maintain and improve the quality of the treatments we provide. We appreciate the demands of providing treatment to people with complex needs and work to promote a compassionate team culture and ensure that staff are supported by a psychologically safe work environment.

Our service has good links with our local Clinical Psychology Training Course at Salomons and we have trainees on placement each year.  There are also good opportunities for learning, development and research as the Trust has strong links with both Sussex and Brighton universities.

The successful applicant would receive professional supervision and be professionally and clinically accountable to and managed by the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist.

In this post, you would be working primarily from St. Mary's House in Eastbourne, a car is not essential as Eastbourne has good transport links and is easily accessible by rail. There may be an occasion where travel to another Trust site is required. There may be the opportunity to consider flexible working with some days based working from home.   This post is offered at 4 days a week but there is scope to consider applications from candidates who would prefer to work 3 days per week.