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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

About
We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.
Contact
- Address
- Swandean
- Arundel Road
- Worthing
- West Sussex
- BN13 3EP
- Contact Number
- 01903 843000
IIRMS Clinical Lead Principal Psychologist
Closed for applications on: 13-Jun-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 13-Jun-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Brighton Probation
- Address
- Lancaster House, 47 Grand Parade
- Town
- Brighton
- Postcode
- BN2 9QA
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 7 months (Secondment/Fixed term until 31/03/2025)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Specialty
- Main area
- Principal Psychologist
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
Do you thrive on team work, providing collaborative complex formulations and guiding clinical work through a relational approach?
The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway is a jointly commissioned initiative by NHS England and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, that aims to provide a pathway of psychologically informed services for a highly complex and challenging offender group who are likely to have severe personality difficulties and who pose a high risk of harm or a high risk of reoffending in a harmful way.
Sussex Chiron Intensive Intervention & Risk Management Service (IIRMS) works directly with the most complex and high risk individuals, supporting their release into the community from prison. You will lead this county-wide, dynamic service, providing professional and clinical leadership to a dedicated and skilled multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team. The service provides individual psychologically-informed support to men and women before they are released from prison and for up to 18 months post-release.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your experience of working in partnership with another organisation. As well as overseeing the work of assistant psychologists, an occupational therapist, a mental health specialist practitioner and Probation Service colleagues, you will also work closely and collaboratively with regional senior probation officers, and KSS provider collaborative colleagues in similar posts.
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· To clinically lead the Sussex Chiron Intensive Intervention Risk Management Service and support the operational and strategic aims of the service
· To work as a member of the Intensive Intervention Risk Management Service, 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 the staff team, which consists of SPFT employees and Probation employees · To support and develop psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training.
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Working for our organisation
The Sussex Intensive Intervention Risk Management Service are a small, cohesive team consisting of SPFT and Probation staff working together to deliver an effective and impactful service which supports those individuals who are complex and present as high risk of harm. This is a challenging yet rewarding service to work in and will give you a unique experience of joint delivery of a specially commissioned service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role is being offered as 0.6 FTE.
You will be an applied psychologist with a core professional qualification recognised by the HCPC, and significant experience of working at a Senior Practitioner Psychologist level or similar, preferably in a service working with people with offending histories and / or high risk / challenging behaviours and presentations and complex personality challenges. We welcome applications from psychologists with experience of working in HMPPS as well as (forensic) mental health services. As this is a fixed term position, you will require a good understanding of the criminal justice system and theoretical models underpinning OPD including attachment theory, the Good Lives Model and desistance theory.
You will be able to demonstrate excellent consultation, communication and collaboration skills, and a successful / effective approach when working with a range of stakeholders / agencies within Health and Criminal Justice contexts. You will also be able to demonstrate experience in leadership roles, and will be an effective teacher, trainer and supervisor to the staff you lead and support.
See Attached JD and PS for full details of role
For further information about this role or to arrange an informal visit, please contact:
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Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
Applicant requirements
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
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist.
- Experience of working 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, in-patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HPC.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Abigail Fenton
- Job title
- Consultant Forensic Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971 493 693
- Additional information
Rebecca Hankins
Service Manager Sussex and Surrey OPD Pathways
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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