Senior Practitioner Psychologist/Senior Psychological Therapist - CBT

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust; England; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Senior Practitioner Psychologist or Senior CBT Therapist, focused on mental health services in Horsham. This part-time role offers opportunities for professional growth and contributing to high-quality psychological care as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will engage in evidence-based therapies and work closely with a dedicated Principal Psychologist, providing essential interventions to improve patient outcomes.

Benefits

Fully funded lifelong learning opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

CPD opportunities in various therapeutic methods

Qualifications

• Experience in psychological assessment and treatment across various settings.
• Demonstrates significant clinical supervision (approx. 50 hours).
• Knowledge of specialist therapies for difficult-to-treat groups.

Responsibilities

• Providing interventions including schema therapy, CBT, EMDR.
• Working with a multidisciplinary team to support service users.
• Delivering assessments and developing treatment plans.

Skills

Specialist psychological assessment

Clinical supervision experience

Multicultural framework experience

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology

Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist

Job description

Senior Practitioner Psychologist/Senior Psychological Therapist - CBT

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 354-FH-20540

Site 78 Crawley Road Town Horsham Salary £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59

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 hoping to appoint a Senior Practitioner Psychologist or Senior CBT Therapist to our level two in-patient adult mental mental service in Horsham. The post is for three days a week and may also suit a newly qualified or soon-to-be qualified practitioner psychologist on a preceptorship basis.

You will be working with a highly resourced MDT including a Principal Psychologist providing a range of direct and indirect evidence-based approaches to our service users.

Main duties of the job

You will be working alongside alongside a Principal Practitioner Psychologist in providing a range of interventions including schema therapy, CBT, EMDR and Behavioural and Systemic Family interventions.

The post holder will work as part of a MDT supporting service users through assessment, formulation and delivering long-term evidence-based interventions to service users.

Working for our organisation

The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic community of psychologists in the Forensic subdivision of the Specialist Services Division. 78 Crawley Road, whilst not a forensic service, sits under the forensic leadership structures.

The service encourages flexible working.

The forensic services provide CPD opportunities including training in the HCR-20, EMDR, schema therapy and behavioural family therapy.

Our Trust has an exciting range of CPD opportunities and the post-holder will be encouraged to develop special interests and expertise in line with service and team objectives. We have set up a newly qualified peer support group and the Trust is focused on developing staff wellbeing initiatives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be working as part of MDT, providing specialist assessments, formulations and interventions.

Please refer to the attached job description for more details about the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

• 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
• *For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
• Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).

Knowledge/Experience

• 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 postqualification 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
• Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
• High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by 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 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Name Dr Remy Gray Job title Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07876 392693 Additional information

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