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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.
Assistant Psychologist
Accepting applications until: 01-Aug-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 01-Aug-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Aldrington House
- Cyfeiriad
- New Church Road
- Tref
- Hove
- Cod post
- BN3 4AG
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £25,147 - £27,596 pro rata
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- 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.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are looking for a Band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join the established team.
The Family Intensive Support Service for ASC (known as FISS-ASC) delivers specialist assessment and interventions, where children and young people with autism presenting with behaviour that challenges; which adversely impacts on their functioning, and risks their access to educational and social opportunities.
The FISS-ASC service aims to support keeping children and young people with their families and living within their local communities, therefore improving outcomes for all family members. The service provides early intervention and intensive support to families reaching crisis, with short term interventions which support a step up and step-down approach throughout their care journey.
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Interventions include: consultation, specialist assessments & behaviour support plans, workshops, groups and individual therapeutic interventions.
The team provides specialist psychological, functional and behavioural consultation, assessment and direct support to children and young people with autism, their families, and their systems of support, across the local community. Members of the team have particular skills in the assessment and delivery of evidenced based treatment for understanding and supporting challenging behaviour, alongside skills in working with complex
networks and systems.
The team ethos is based on valuing the expertise of the families and professionals who consult to and use the service, and this value should remain central to formulation and intervention. In line with a multi-disciplinary approach, support is offered to children, young people and their families within a holistic framework. As such, clinicians have the opportunity to draw on a range of models including:- systemic, psychological,
occupational, behavioural, sensory, and psychoeducational models.
The FISS-ASC team work closely with colleagues within the CAMHS Learning Disability team, and the Neurodevelopmental Psychology service and alongside other partner child development services.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
We can offer you:
Regular appraisal, personal development planning and opportunities for continuing professional development.
Regular supervision
Opportunities to work closely with multi-professional teams
Involvement in service development
Involvement in providing training.
We are looking for a keen and hard-working assistant psychologist to join this innovative new service, who has a particular interest and some
knowledge and experience of working with children and young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, and their families, and who wants to
expand their skills further in this area.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
The post will be varied and will include audit and evaluation of all aspects of service delivery, setting up and administering group interventions and workshops for young people and parents, creating resources such as newsletters as well as clinical resources, setting up and administering clinics, answering enquiries from service users and other professionals, and helping to create and disseminate training packages.
Good audit and evaluation skills are therefore essential, and knowledge about the application of client outcome measures and feedback tools and how they inform service change. The successful applicant will therefore have excellent IT skills, and be proficient in the use of Excel, Power Point, and data analysis and presentation. We are also looking for someone who is well organised, able to prioritise in the event of competing demands,
a good time keeper, and able to work using their own initiative, but know when to ask for help.
The post holder will have the opportunity to co-facilitate and participate in group work, interview young people and their parents as part of service evaluation, take part in school visits to help inform assessments etc.; hence it is important that the post holder is able to relate well to young people and their parents/carers while maintaining appropriate boundaries, as well as being able to relate to other members of the team.
We will aim to provide the post holder with a wide range of clinical and learning experiences, including observing a variety of client and professional consultations, attending in-house training, attending multi-agency meetings, school visits etc. The post holder will also have a chance to visit other NHS and local authority children's services, particularly those associated with services for children and young people with
neurodevelopmental disorders.
The post holder will also be a member of the wider Brighton & Hove Psychology team, which is a lively and active team of psychologists working within Specialist CAMHS, Learning Disability, Community Child Health and Neuro-developmental disorders, Social Services and Education. The post holder will be expected to attend the regular Psychology business meetings and participate in Trust wide CPD and training events.
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
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Honours degree at 2:2 or above in Psychology, or equivalent. Eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartership with the BPS
Knowledge/Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- 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
- Enw
- Fran Boulter
- Teitl y swydd
- Specialist Service Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07710978409
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
This vacancy may close early due to high volumes of applications.
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