Practitioner Psychologist, Psychological Therapist or Psychotherapist

Job overview

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 from Practitioner Psychologists, Psychological Therapists and Psychotherapists interested 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 in Arun 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.

Detailed job description and main 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.