We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 8a Senior Practitioner Psychologist to join our East Sussex CAMHS team. The post is for 3 days a week for maternity cover for 12 months.
We are seeking to recruit a passionate and committed Senior Practitioner Psychologist to join our well-established team. We are looking for someone who is committed to the provision of excellent, evidenced based clinical intervention.
You will be joining a friendly, supportive and creative multi-disciplinary team, dedicated to providing a high-quality service which complements the work done by our wider CAMHS colleagues and in liaison/partnership with other key young people's services. Our core business includes assessment and intervention with young people experiencing mental health issues, including attention to risk management and care planning, and working with families and the wider systems that support young people. We are committed to working in collaboration with the children, young people and families accessing our service.
You will have opportunities for Continuing Professional Development. Depending on your areas of expertise and training, a secondary supervision package can be part of your job plan (for example for CBT, IPT, EMDR or DBT).
We have transitioned to a Stepped Care model in East Sussex and this has provided an exciting opportunity for the successful applicant to integrate into this framework.
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the clinical service/team, providing a high-quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers. In addition, to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training.
To participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to assistant, trainee and more junior psychologists and other staff. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
To contribute to the culture of co-production and participation with the children, young people and families who use the service.
About us
We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex.
Job responsibilities
* 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, trainee psychologists and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate.
* To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/settings as appropriate.
* To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
* To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit, and to advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
* 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* 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
Essential
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Demonstrate specialist experience gained post-qualification 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).
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Orchard House
Nevill Road
Lewes
BN71PE
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