Practitioner Psychologist, Psychological Therapist or Psychotherapist

NHS; Littlehampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and supportive team as a Practitioner Psychologist or Psychological Therapist at NHS, offering vital support and treatment for individuals facing severe mental health challenges. You'll engage in evidence-based interventions and supervision while evolving within your career. Enjoy a rewarding experience in beautiful West Sussex, known for its vibrant communities and scenic landscapes.

Benefits

Access to CPD and supervision

Opportunities for training

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Recognised postgraduate training in psychotherapy.
• Registered as a professional.
• Experience in teaching, training, and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality psychological services and hold a clinical caseload.
• Supervise assistant and trainee psychologists.
• Contribute to service evaluations and developments.

Skills

Clinical skills

Trauma-informed care

Supervision

Education

Recognised/accredited postgraduate level training in a psychological therapy

Professionally registered

Job description

Practitioner Psychologist, Psychological Therapist or Psychotherapist

This is an excellent opportunity to join a creative and dynamic psychological professions team working across the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams in coastal West Sussex. We are committed to making our service a great place to work, where everyone has access to excellent CPD and supervision, and opportunities for training in approaches relevant to our care pathways.

We encourage applications fromPractitioner Psychologists, Psychological Therapists and Psychotherapistsinterested in providing treatment and support to people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, including psychosis, complex emotional needs (CEN) and complex PTSD. You will join a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team inArun district.

We are looking for someone with excellent clinical skills, able to engage positively with colleagues, service users, and the wider community. You will be able to think creatively with partnership organisations, modelling our strong commitment to trauma-informed approaches, co-production, and inclusion.

Main duties of the job

As a psychological professional, you will offer assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for people with a range of mental health difficulties. Experience of working with psychosis is desirable.As the post sits within community services, you will offer supervision and training to both psychological professionals and multidisciplinary colleagues. You will build close working relationships with our local community of psychological professionals working into other teams. As a professional group, we have a rich and diverse range of skills and experience, and pride ourselves on being a helpful and supportive group. Your career progression is important to us, and we will provide local opportunities to develop leadership and supervision skills.

We have strong links with our Research and Development Department and there are multiple opportunities to work alongside R&D colleagues to embed good practice and evaluate our work. For example the new SuPER clinic led by Prof Kathy Greenwood and Compassionate Resilience Group trials for cPTSD led by Prof Nick Grey and Deborah Lee.

About us

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex.

Living and Working in West Sussex:

• Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages, contemporary seaside towns, and the Southdowns National Park on your doorstep
• Good schools and vibrant communities. West Sussex is also the sunniest county in the UK!
• Arun NMHT is based in Littlehampton, a seaside town with two award winning beaches, the beautiful River Arun and an extensive programme of cultural events. It is just 20 miles from Brighton, and a half hour drive to Chichester.

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.

Key survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Job responsibilities

See attached Job Description.

To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.

To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.

To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.

To clinically supervise assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.

To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists

To provide consultation and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.

To contribute to local service developments under the supervision of the professional lead.

To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally.

To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Recognised/accredited postgraduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in one of the Appendices
• Professionally registered as specified in the same Appendix
• Additional pre- and/or post-qualification training as specified in the same Appendix

Knowledge/Experience

• Substantial 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 delivering group interventions

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.