Practitioner Psychologist

Tokitan.TV; Hove; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Practitioner Psychologist to join their team in Hove, focused on delivering high-quality mental health services. This role offers the chance to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, providing essential psychological assessments and interventions to individuals facing severe mental health challenges. You'll be part of a supportive environment that prioritizes professional development and innovation in care delivery. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients and their families, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• HCPC registration required for applied psychologists.
• Experience in working with severe mental health difficulties.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychology input into the female acute ward.
• Conduct assessments and develop care plans for complex cases.

Skills

Psychological Assessment

Clinical Supervision

Therapeutic Interventions

Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Education

Post-graduate Doctoral Level Training in Applied Psychology

HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist

Job description

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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.

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.

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Key details

Location

SiteMill View HospitalAddressNeville AveTownHovePostcodeBN3 7HZMajor / Minor RegionWest Sussex

Contract type & working pattern

ContractPermanentHoursPart time - 30 hours per week

Salary

Salary£53,755 - £60,504 pro rataSalary periodYearlyGrade(NHS AfC: Band 8a)

Specialty

Main areaMental 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

Applications are invited from HCPC-registered Applied Psychologists to fill a newly created post at Mill View Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, motivated, creative and enthusiastic multidisciplinary teamapplied psychologist interested in working within Adult acute care, to join our skilled and motivatedbased at Mill View. The ward is part of a service implementing a new clinical model - aiming to deliver therapeutically and trauma informed care in an acute setting.

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The post holder will be a key member of the acute clinical teams and must have a strong commitment to multi-disciplinary working. Experience in working with people with severe and complex mental health difficulties in crisis (across the age span) is required.The role will include direct assessment and formulation of people with complex presentations, working with the whole team to develop formulations and care plans, direct interventions with service users and their families, supporting the wider team in their application of psychologically-informed approaches and supervision of colleagues. We are looking for someone with leadership skills appropriate to the grade such that you will be able to work alongside others to innovate and implement service improvements. The post-holder will ideally be familiar with working in an NHS setting.

Working for our organisation

We will support you in this role and provide regular clinical and professional supervision. We know the best way to provide outstanding care to our patients is through team work and sharing our ideas. We are also very fortunate to have a neuropsychologist working in our service who provides group supervision in neuropsychology which provides an excellent opportunity for developing your skills in this area. Brighton and Hove has an active psychology network and strong psychology leadership.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The post provides psychology input into the female acute ward, and the successful applicant will work closely with the Psychological Practitioners and therapies team across the unit. Applicants must be registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.

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 childrens 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

warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info 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

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its} equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
• Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
  
  

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Demonstrate specialist experience gained post-qualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours)
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience or demonstrable knowledge of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
  
  

Documents

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Further details / informal visits contact

NameAlexandra kyddJob titlePrincipal Clinical PsychologistEmail address [email protected]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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