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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
Practitioner Psychologist
Closed for applications on: 8-Aug-2025 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Aug-2025 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Annes Community Service Centre
- Address
- 729 The Ridge
- Town
- St Leonards-on-Sea
- Postcode
- TN37 7PT
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
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
We are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist who is looking to expand their range of knowledge and skills whilst still being part of a generic Specialist CAMHS team.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone newly qualified and/or with an interest in working in a range of areas common to CAMHS, including initial assessment, team formulation, and interventions across a broad spectrum of presentations and lived experiences of young people.
As a Sussex wide service we are presently developing new and innovative care pathways as part of our goals of promoting excellence in our support to young people and families accessing our service.
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The post holder would have opportunities to contribute to our Trauma pathway, and well as work as part of our Emotional Intensity Pathway, which is an inventive clinical offer informed by Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. It would therefore be desirable but not essential for applicants for this post to have had knowledge or experience of DBT.
Part of this post will also involve contributing to initial assessment clinics, supporting young people to explore their goals, and working with the multi-disciplinary team to develop appropriate care plans to meet these needs.
The post holder will also have the opportunity to be involved in a variety of local audit and evaluation projects associated with the pathways with which they are involved, in addition to opportunities to support wider county projects focusing on the develop of innovative care.
A key value of East Sussex CAMHS is the involvement of experts by experience in the development of our service. It would be anticipated that the post holder would also contribute, alongside our participation manager, to the development of groups and projects supporting the meaningful involvement of young people in building our service.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will be joining a Specialist CAMHS team, which offers a very varied range of individual, family and group work, including DBT and risk stabilisation groups for young people, a range of family therapy clinics and a number of parent groups and workshops. The team operates a care pathway model following CYP IAPT guidelines in terms of evidenced practice and use of ROMS, and is engaged in regular audit/service evaluation to improve service delivery,
As well as being a member of a very innovative and welcoming Specialist CAMHS team, the post holder will be part of the wider East Sussex Psychology team. This is a lively and active team of psychologists working across the city, within Specialist CAMHS, Learning Disability, Community Child Health and Neuro-developmental diagnosis, Social Services, Acute Paediatrics and Education. The team is involved in a number of audit, evaluation and research projects, as well as developing and delivering a number of groups and workshops such as DBT, ASD and Anxiety, and also innovative groups adapted for adolescents within Specialist CAMHS, CAMHS Learning Disability team and the acute paediatrics.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As part of the wider East Sussex CAMHS service, you will also be part of Psychology and Psychological Therapies (PP) professional network contributing to our innovation, commitment to ongoing compassionate care and service improvement. You will work closely with the Locality Manager, your local Consultant Psychologist and colleagues, and be supported to attend regular local and county wide Psychology meetings and undertake relevant CPD.
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 prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as approved by the HCPC
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological working (assessment, formulation and treatment) 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, inpatient and residential care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology
- High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
- Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Simon Hemmings
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
No longer accepting applications
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