Assistant Psychologist

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit a 1.0 wte Band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join a welcoming Integrated Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service at Lansdowne Secure Children’s Home in Hailsham, East Sussex.  It is an exciting opportunity for a creative individual with good communication and organisation skills and an interest in children and young people’s mental health to work in a dynamic, multi-agency work environment, under the direct supervision of a Clinical Psychologist. You will also be working alongside a Principal Psychologist, a Mental Health Nurse, Physical Health Nurses, an Occupational Therapist and a supportive admin team.

Lansdowne Secure Children’s Home is an 11 bedded social care provision for young people aged 12-17.  The young people have complex needs and are described as ‘high need/high vulnerability/high risk’.

The health team's focus is informed by the Framework for Integrated Care (also known as SECURE STAIRS). This aims to support trauma-informed care and formulation-driven, evidence-based, whole-systems approaches to creating change for young people within the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate (CYPSE).

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As an Assistant Psychologist, you will be joining our small and welcoming multi-disciplinary health team whose role is to support both the young people and the residential staff within the home.

The post holder’s main responsibilities will be to support the projects relating to service implementation and evaluation which will include the collection of qualitative and quantitative outcome data sets (e.g. depression and anxiety scales);  to manage spreadsheets and to use IT skills, critical analysis and presentation skills to conduct evaluations, audits and research; to support assessment (e.g. mental health screening and cognitive assessments) and treatment interventions (e.g. emotional regulation skills work) undertaken by the service as appropriate to level of competence and training;  and to contribute to the psycho-educational training groups  provided for care staff (e.g. self-harm training and the Therapeutic Parenting group). Should the post holder wish to pursue an application for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, support with application and interview preparation will be available.

This is a full time post of 1.0 WTE (37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday).

Working for our organisation

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

·         70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work

·         79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team

·         77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles