Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 354-CS-21602
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highmore
- Town
- Hailsham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa / pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 08:00
Employer heading
Practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
Would you like to help us initiate and develop new ways of working with children with learning disabilities and their families? Would you like to work in an innovative service and have the opportunity to join our community-based work?
We are looking for an enthusiastic Practitioner Psychologist to join the East Sussex specialist CAMHS Learning Disability Family Intensive Support Service. You will work creatively within a wide range of approaches including Systemic, Positive Behaviour Support, Functional Analysis, Attachment theory, Mindfulness-based approaches and the Family Partnership Model and have the opportunity to develop new models of working too.
We are a friendly, innovative, award-winning, multi-disciplinary community team working with families whose children, including looked after children, have moderate to severe learning disabilities with significant psychological, behavioural and communication difficulties. The team is comprised of Clinical Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Family Support Practitioners, Specialist Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Occupational Therapist.
We are a community rather than clinic based service so your work will take place in a variety of settings including in family homes, schools, respite services and the wider community including in woodlands as part of our award winning Woodland Project
Main duties of the job
The key components of the job will be to provide:
- a high-quality community-based service to children with learning disabilities and their families, carers and networks.
- specialist psychological assessments, formulation and multi-disciplinary interventions for children presenting with challenging behaviours, including facilitating parent groups.
- supervision of undergraduate psychology students, assistant psychologist and trainee psychologists.
- psychological support and reflective space to other colleagues in the team.
- consultation and training to other agencies and services working with children with learning disabilities.
Please see the job descriptions with person specifications for qualification and registration requirements.
The post is based in Hailsham at the team office but as we cover the whole of East Sussex you will be required to travel between sites.
You will need to have experience of at least one of the following:
· working with children/young people with learning disabilities
· working with children/young people with Autism
· working with Looked After children
· working in a CAMHS setting
· working with adults with a learning disability
· working at a range of levels including direct work with children/young people, parents and carers
Working for our organisation
You will be supported within the team by experienced clinical psychologists and will work closely with other specialists within the service, CAMHS and universal children’s services. As a member of the psychological professions workforce you will be able to access additional CPD.
Professional development is encouraged through supervision, training, team CPD and wider CAMHS and Trust events. We welcome contact from interested candidates – call us to find out more about the team and the role!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description for further details about the role, or for an informal conversation please contact Jasmine Lineker - Lead Clinical Psychologist on 0300 304 0327 option 7
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
- 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 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
- Jasmine Lineker
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0327
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