Main area: Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8d
Contract: Secondment: 1 year
Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week (This is a job share post)
Job ref: 354-FH-20503-A
Site: The Firs, Town Hellingly
Salary: £88,168 - £101,677 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/03/2025 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 the 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
An exciting secondment opportunity for a part-time Lead Consultant Psychologist (job share) to provide professional leadership for all psychologists working in Forensic Healthcare Services. To be responsible, in collaboration with the Service Director and other Care Group senior leadership, for the provision and development of psychological services for the care group, ensuring the delivery of high-quality psychological services. To hold a specialist case load.
Main duties of the job
1. To be accountable as part of the CDS leadership team for the management of Trust finances and business development.
2. To represent the CDS across Trust-wide services in developing new services, bidding for new business and negotiating contracts with commissioners of services.
3. To provide professional leadership for psychology and psychological therapies for the CDS across Trust-wide services.
4. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and to provide professional leadership by exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the CDS across Trust-wide services.
5. To propose and implement policy and service development changes in relation to psychology and psychological therapies across the service.
6. To ensure that systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal and identification of CPD are in place and working effectively across the service.
7. To be responsible for the development of applied psychology services within the care group, including clear systems for effective recruitment and workforce planning in line with the Trust’s business plan and the CDS service model.
8. A major requirement of the job is to initiate, lead and carry out audit, research and training programmes and to propose and implement policy and service development changes within the care group.
9. To hold a specialist case load.
Working for our organisation
SPFT is a large NHS organisation that offers clinical and social care services to children, young people, adults and older adults, with emotional and mental health problems or learning disabilities. We provide services to the people of Brighton and Hove, East and West Sussex with Children & Young People’s Services provided across Sussex and Hampshire. The Trust operates as part of a wider network of health and social care and works in partnership with both statutory and non-statutory agencies. The Trust benefits from a thriving Sussex-wide psychiatry training scheme where HE Kent, Surrey and Sussex provide foundation, GP, core and higher trainees. We work closely with Brighton and Sussex Medical School, in 2015 we became a member of the Association of UK University Hospitals, the representative body for university hospitals with major teaching and research interests across the UK and internationally. Our vision is to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve. The clinical strategy and organisational strategy we have developed underpin this by providing frameworks to enable sustained improvements in the quality of care we provide. With our Integrated Care System partners, we have developed a compelling case for change in mental health services which strives to improve the links between health and social care to better serve our communities. The Trust is rated by the CQC as Good for being safe, effective, responsive and well-led and as Outstanding for caring.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description for more detail.
Clinical - Overall: To be responsible for the delivery of a high quality, effective and safe psychology and psychological therapies service within the Forensic Health Care Service in order to meet Trust wide strategic aims and objectives.
Teaching, training and supervision: Overall: To directly contribute to the Forensic Healthcare strategic aims and objectives.
Management, Leadership, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
Research and service evaluation.
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 HPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to the specific Care Group/Service.
* HPC Registered as a practitioner Psychologist.
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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.
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