Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-CS-21693
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Portslade Hub
- Town
- Portslade
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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 seeking to recruit an experienced, knowledgeable and trauma-informed senior clinical psychologist to join our innovative Multi-agency and Integrated Service between Brighton & Hove County Council and Sussex Partnership Foundation trust. You will be working within the Partners in Change Hub in the Brighton & Hove Family and Children’s Services department (recently awarded ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted,2024). The Partners in Change team (PiC) are a multi-disciplinary team where you will be working alongside Psychiatric Nurses, Substance Misuse specialists, Social Workers and Lead Practitioners. The PiC service is a friendly and welcoming team dedicated to providing a high-quality service which complements the work done by Children Services in liaison/partnership with other key agencies.
Main duties of the job
The service provides assessments and interventions to families within Brighton & Hove child protection, safeguarding and care proceedings where the parent / parents’ own difficulties: substance misuse, mental health, sexual risk, learning difficulties, domestic violence are impacting on their ability to parent. This post is part of a further service development offering assessments and interventions to adults who present with complex needs including learning needs, neurodevelopmental needs and form of trauma often related to their own experiences as children and adults.
Working for our organisation
The role is a nice balance of consultation, assessment (psychological and cognitive) and direct therapeutic intervention. The role will allow you to develop skills and opportunities to work with multiple types of complex trauma in your intervention work. You will contribute to wider trauma-informed practice development, staff training, and monitoring within the service. There are multiple working interest groups such as anti-poverty working groups you will have the opportunity to engage with, and help support, the active anti-racist practice already ongoing within BHCC. You will have the opportunity to develop psychological-informed, formulation driven reflective practice to understand complex families and systems with the wider social work network. The role also entails working alongside the BHCC legal team and decision-making around the use of externally commissioned expert witnesses. You will help develop the psychology service delivery through audit and performance monitoring and be part of steering group commissioning meetings with associate directors and service leads.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This varied and challenging role will involve working with families to enhance outcomes for children subject to Child Protection Plans and pre-proceedings through interventions with the adults thinking and taking into considering the competing needs between the children and the adults. As an experienced clinical psychologist in the field of adult and family mental health, you will be confident in assessing and managing risk and will be able to communicate your professional opinion both verbally and in writing. The role will also involve provide consultation to social workers to assist them in case management, and sharing your skills within the team.
This role is being advertised as full time hours but part time working will be considered.
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 HPC, 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 (HPC).
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 post-qualification 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.
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
- Fran Boulter
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07710978409
- Additional information
Dr Nick White
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Brighton and Hove CAMHS
The Aldrington Centre,
35 New Church Road,
Hove BN3 4AG
0300 304 0061
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