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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.
Assistant Psychologist, West Assessment & Treatment Service
Closed for applications on: 11-Jul-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Jul-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Mill View Hospital
- Address
- Nevill Avenue
- Town
- Hove
- Postcode
- BN3 7HY
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
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
Do you want to experience living and working in the bustling seaside city of Brighton & Hove?
Are you a Psychology graduate with a passion for working in the NHS and Mental Health?
Would you like to get experience of working in a specialist mental health service?
West Brighton Assessment & Treatment Service is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join our multi-disciplinary community mental health team, supervised by our psychologists. This is a permanent post for 5 days per week (Mon-Fri).
You will be part of a strong multi-disciplinary specialist community mental health team and will receive clinical supervision from HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologists. Not only will you gain substantial clinical experience, you will be joining us at a time of significant change during our transformation of mental health services. One of our key strategic aims is to increase access to evidence-based psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions for people with severe mental health problems.
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In this role, your responsibilities will include:
- Providing support, co-ordination and administration to the multi-disciplinary assessment clinics, including sitting in on front-line clinical assessments;
- Gaining first-hand experience of risk assessments & undertaking collaborative care planning to engage people who are unwell and distressed due to their mental health;
- Working alongside qualified mental health practitioners as part of the psychosis, personality disorder or mood & trauma pathways to deliver interventions within our Assessment & Treatment Service (ATS);
- Helping us to develop structures to collect our routine clinical outcomes measures; contributing to waiting list initiatives, and developing skills in the application of Quality Improvement (QI) methods and audit
You will possess excellent IT skills, be proficient in the use of Excel and PowerPoint, have good audit and evaluation skills and a good knowledge of routine outcome measures and service user feedback tools.
We are committed to supporting you on your journey to becoming a practitioner psychologist and to learn about other roles and training opportunities in mental health. Supervision and wider professional support will be available to you, as well as further training and development opportunities on offer within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Living & Working in Brighton & Hove:
- Be spoilt for choice with Brighton's iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractions
- Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstep
- Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park
We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Key staff survey results include:
- 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
- 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
- 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Sussex Partnership is a fantastic Trust to work for and psychology is highly valued. Our teams are welcoming and enthusiastic about providing the best possible care for people who access our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full details about this role can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification. In summary:
· Assisting the MDT in frontline assessment clinics
· Under supervision, developing collaborative risk & care plans with the people who use our services
· Learning how to write psychological formulations and risk management plans
· Contributing to treatment pathways for psychosis, personality disorder, mood & trauma
· Developing a system to monitor routine outcome measures
· Assisting with audit and research
· Gaining psychologically informed skills in different therapy models and providing, under supervision, mental health interventions
· Learning the strengths of a multi-disciplinary approach to healthcare
· Gaining valuable insight into how services are changing as part of our transformation of mental health services in Sussex
This post is only open to current employees of Sussex Partnership NHS Trust
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
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology, or equivalent. Eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartership with the BPS
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical and research skills
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Basic knowledge of databases, research skills and methodology
- Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a health context
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Cohen
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 0094
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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