Job summary
Applications are invited from Applied Psychologists for a fixed term one year Band 8a post (0.4WTE; 15 hours) within Brighton & Hove Community Mental Health Services. Applicants must be registered as Practitioner Psychologists with the HCPC.
The post-holder will be part of the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT), which provides community mental health services for adults of all ages. The service is multi-professional and based across two hubs in East and West Brighton. This post will be based at the East hub at East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Brighton.
Main duties of the job
The role involves working with people with complex mental health problems, their families and carers. The post-holder will be also be expected to provide supervision and consultation to other psychologists, trainees and members of the multidisciplinary team where appropriate, and to support the leadership team in Psychology and Psychological Therapies and the wider NMHT with various tasks.
About us
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services in and across Sussex. It aims to realise the potential of everyone who uses its services and to enable staff to do a great job. Sussex Partnership has teaching status and is developing into one of the country's leading teaching mental health trusts. Working here offers continued training and development, variety and a rewarding challenge, plus all the benefits of living in Sussex.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic community of psychologists and psychological therapists in Brighton & Hove working as part of the Assessment and Treatment Service. The post-holder will need to be creative and flexible in adapting to change, and able to educate and inspire others in working with people with complex mental health problems.
Brighton Psychologists and Psychological Therapists are valued members of the service and offer specialist assessments and interventions, psychological formulation and team consultation. The post-holder will be embedded in a multi-disciplinary team so will need to be very enthusiastic about this way of working. The successful candidate will have skills and interests in supporting professional colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work and in contributing psychological perspectives to service users care plans.
For informal enquiries you are very welcome to contact Hannah Denton (Consultant Counselling Psychologist) or Dr Jamie Connor (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) to learn more about the posts on 0300 304 0094 or e-mail hannah.denton3@nhs.net or Jamie.connor@nhs.net
For further information regarding the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic community of psychologists and psychological therapists in Brighton & Hove working as part of the Assessment and Treatment Service. The post-holder will need to be creative and flexible in adapting to change, and able to educate and inspire others in working with people with complex mental health problems.
Brighton Psychologists and Psychological Therapists are valued members of the service and offer specialist assessments and interventions, psychological formulation and team consultation. The post-holder will be embedded in a multi-disciplinary team so will need to be very enthusiastic about this way of working. The successful candidate will have skills and interests in supporting professional colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work and in contributing psychological perspectives to service users care plans.
For informal enquiries you are very welcome to contact Hannah Denton (Consultant Counselling Psychologist) or Dr Jamie Connor (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) to learn more about the posts on 0300 304 0094 or e-mail hannah.denton3@nhs.net or Jamie.connor@nhs.net
For further information regarding the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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, approved by the HPC
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- 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 postqualification 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 the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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, approved by the HPC
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- 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 postqualification 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 the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
