We are recruiting a Principal Practitioner Psychologist to provide a clinical service for our working age acute wards and crisis team in Eastbourne and Seaford, and professional leadership for our acute and urgent care psychology and psychological therapy services across East Sussex. The service is well established and this would be an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical and leadership expertise alongside a team of committed colleagues in psychology, psychological therapy and other disciplines. It is open to people seeking promotion from a lower banding or looking for a new challenge at principal level.
Main duties of the job
To provide a professional or clinical leadership role within the clinical service/team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families, or carers, where there are highly complex presentations. In addition, to be responsible for the supervision and governance of a group of psychologists and psychological therapists with the specified service and to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation, and training. To utilise research skills for audit, service development, and research within the area served by the team/service.
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will ensure that the multi-disciplinary teams have access to a psychological opinion, and contribute to the development of psychological thinking, understanding, and interventions/approaches within the multi-disciplinary teams. As well as offering consultation, assessments (ideally including neuropsychological assessment), and focused, short-term individual and group interventions, they will contribute to the training and clinical supervision of other staff and offer reflective practice opportunities.
The successful post holder must be flexible, confident and thrive on working within a multidisciplinary context. Experience or specialist skills in working with specific conditions, such as psychosis or personality disorders would be useful, as would a systemic or psychodynamic understanding of teams. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the delivery of high quality, safe, effective, and therapeutic adult acute services based upon innovation and evidence-based practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 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.
* Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
Knowledge/Experience
* Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
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.
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