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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.
Specialist Psychological Therapist CBT
Closed for applications on: 31-Jul-2024 14:23
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 31-Jul-2024 14:23
Key details
Location
- Site
- Oaklands centre
- Address
- Graylingwell drive
- Town
- Chichester
- Postcode
- PO196GS
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Acute inpatient
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
Are you a psychological therapist looking for a new challenge in a beautiful part of the country? We have an exciting new role for a Specialist Psychological Therapist (BABCP registered Cognitive Behavioural Psychologist) to join our Working Age Adult inpatient ward at Oaklands Centre in Chichester.
Oaklands Centre is a 16 bedded purpose built acute inpatient psychiatric unit which provides a service to working age adults with acute mental health problems
You will have the opportunity to work with people with a wide range of mental health problems, providing assessments and interventions to clients, their families and carers, as well as support to the team through case formulation and reflective practice.
We are looking for individuals with excellent clinical skills and an aptitude for engaging positively with colleagues and service users. Your role will involve psychological assessment, formulation and intervention with service users. You will also have skills in thinking creatively with local colleagues, using your psychological skills to inform service-users' care pathways and ongoing recovery journeys.
Advert
As a Specialist Psychological Practitioner, you will work closely with the MDT to ensure a trauma-informed, therapeutic culture is promoted and embedded with collaborative service user engagement. You will work closely with the 8b Principal Psychologist to provide leadership around the implementation of evidence-based interventions.
The role includes providing individual and group evidence-based interventions for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. Formulation skills will be an important part of the role as you lead on team formulation which is valued part of MDT working and care planning. There may also be opportunities to offer clinical supervision to trainee Mental Health Well-being practitioners within the wider service.
You will have regular clinical and professional supervision including specialist clinical supervision (i.e. EMDR, DBT, CBT). We have a strong network of diverse and supportive psychology colleagues who meet
Working for our organisation
As a Trust we have an exciting and extensive range of CPD opportunities including accredited training in EMDR, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Family Interventions in Psychosis, CBT for psychosis - in particular 'Feeling Safe' (Freeman et al), Slow-Mo (Garety et al) Interpersonal Psychotherapy and many more. You will be encouraged to develop special interests and expertise in line with service and team objectives.
This is an exciting time to join our service as we are reviewing and updating our psychological therapy provision across the service. We are keen to expand our offer of groups and increase access to psychological therapies for our clients – we are interested in exploring and implementing range of creative and innovative approaches to help us to do this and would welcome your ideas and experience in this process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If successful you will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team comprising of psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, support workers, occupational therapists and more. As part of the wider Western mental health service you will also be joining a friendly and engaged community of psychological therapists, who bring a rich variety of skills and experience.
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
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised/accredited postgraduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in one of the Appendices
- Professionally registered as specified in the same Appendix
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), as specified in the same Appendix, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
- Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context
- A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
- Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context
- Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
- Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group
- A high-level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the same appendix, as applied to the client group using this service
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the same appendix
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Delaney
- Job title
- Clinical Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07765806893
- Additional information
Pallavi Bala – Principal Psychologist and lead for Acute Psychology/Psychological Therapies: [email protected] , 07471217099.
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