Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-CO-21589
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Negotiable
- Town
- Negotiable
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Consultant Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8c
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
This is a unique opportunity for an experienced clinical psychologist to join a dynamic multi-disciplinary specialist team (the Specialist Assessment Multidisciplinary team; SAM).
SAM are now engaging with social care providers in new pioneering work to develop wrap around clinical support for people with complex needs in community placements. You will play a key role developing the model of delivery for this work. The successful applicant will offer psychological expertise and clinical leadership to the MDT, the Rehab Hub, the Trust Specialist Funding Panel, the wider rehab pathway, and teams and services connected with the pathway.
You will have extensive clinical expertise, particularly in relation to psychosis, and will have demonstrable clinical and professional leadership skills. You will have exemplary communication skills and the ability to keep patient-led and evidence-based care central in professional and multi-agency meetings. You will also be able to offer effective team support to your multi-disciplinary colleagues, and psychological staff within the team.
Main duties of the job
• To provide professional leadership for the psychological professions within the SAM team, leading on appraisal, professional development and supervision systems and standards of professional behaviour for all psychological professions in order to effect high quality psychological practice in this Trust-wide specialist service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and to provide professional leadership by exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team. To ensure that suitable systems are in place for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all other psychological professionals in the team.
• To propose and implement policy and service development changes in relation to psychology and psychological therapies across the specified service.
• To ensure that systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal and identification of CPD are in place and working effectively in the specified service.
• To ensure relevant audit, policy and service development and research activities are carried out by psychology staff working in the SAM team.
Working for our organisation
The Specialist Assessment Multidisciplinary team (SAM), is a county-wide team, working with people in High Dependency (Level 2) Rehab placements, ensuring that they are getting the treatment they need and are progressing towards discharge to their local areas.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a professional or clinical leadership role within the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations. In addition to be responsible for the supervision and governance of a group of psychologists and psychological therapists with the specified service and to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
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,
- Accredited / registered with professional body / regulator as detailed above
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of professional practice.
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to the specific Care Group/Service.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of applied psychology and psychological therapy including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological practice
- Assessed extensive experience of working as a qualified or registered Practitioner Psychologist or psychological therapist, including significant postqualification experience within the specialist field(s) of practice/training/research.
- Extensive experience of providing successful clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary mental health provider context
- Demonstrable knowledge of the theory and practice of leadership and management in mental health services
- Experience of the successful professional management of qualified and pre-qualified psychological therapists and Practitioner psychologists
- Experience of successfully representing the profession and/or services in local or regional policy forums, across services or at equivalent level.
Desirable criteria
- Further training in leadership and management in mental health services
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
- Kim Warren
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920710311
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