Senior Practitioner Psychologist - 8a (or band 7 - 8 preceptorship)

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative Band 8a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our friendly Coastal Sussex CAMHS team based across Worthing & Chichester.

This post is also open to band 7 Psychologists as part of our robust Band 7-8 Preceptorship programme in CAMHS, where you will be fully supported throughout.

This framework enables us to support you in transitioning from a Band 7 to an 8a role in this post within 18 to 36 months. We welcome applications from Practitioner Psychologists who qualified 12 months ago or have at least 1-year post-qualification clinical practice.

Your career development is important to us. The Preceptorship Development Plan will ensure you are supported to progress from a band 7 to 8a role in this post within 3 years (please see attached document for details).

The post holder will be expected to have well developed assessment, intervention and formulation skills in a range of psychological models, including CBT, systemic and attachment-based models and to be able to apply them to a wide variety of complex co-morbid presentations.

Main duties of the job

This highly specialist part-time post will allow you to develop your skills in supervision, CBT and other therapeutic modalities.  Previous post holders have developed skills in group psychotherapy, DBT, EMDR and clinical supervision, supported by training and CPD support available through SPFT. The post will support the deepening of your skills and experience of core CAMHS practice, taking on leadership duties including supervision, clinical governance and quality improvement.  Most psychologists in our service have specialist CBT skills that supports them with delivering & evaluating our range of CBT groups and supervising CBT therapists and low intensity practitioners, drawing on our expertise in delivering innovative digital interventions. The role will support the embedding of trauma informed care, in our friendly, supportive coastal CAMHS team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your Coastal Team

We are a specialist community CAMHS offering specialist assessment, intervention and multi-disciplinary care to children, young people and families with moderate-severe mental health difficulties.

You will work in both Worthing and Chichester as part of our friendly, committed Coastal CAMHS multi-disciplinary team. You will have the chance to learn and grow in the coastal team with highly experienced analytic psychotherapists, systemic therapists, psychiatrists, pharmacists, art therapists, social workers, MH nurses, OTs and low intensity practitioners. You will be part of a vibrant psychology network who will support and mentor your professional development and connection to the wider profession through the SPFT PP department and the wider PPN network. Listen to staff from coastal CAMHS talk about their work here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sseefqnxbyo

We have excellent links with the University of Surrey PsychD programme supervising high quality placements, alongside research and QI projects.  Our CAMHS research priorities were co-developed by our Clinical Academic Group, alongside Children, young people and parents and linked to a range of projects supported by SPFT Research Dept and the Applied Research Consortium (ARC) for Kent, Surrey Sussex.

You will provide supervision to Band 7 psychologists, trainees, assistant psychologists and other clinical staff. Therefore, previous experience of supervising others such as trainee and assistant psychologists is essential.

There will be ongoing opportunities for innovation, service development, leadership and developing close working relationships across the service as well as with partners agencies, in order to support young people, families and communities. Read about our award winning participation work