Senior Practitioner Psychologist or Specialist Psychological Therapist

2 months ago


Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Practitioner Psychologist or Senior Specialist Psychological Therapist to join our team at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified professional to take on a clinical leadership role and contribute to the delivery of high-quality specialist psychological therapy services to individuals, carers, families, and groups.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide a 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.
  • Hold and manage a clinical caseload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritizing of own workload and the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
  • Use analytical and judgment skills to take clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
  • Supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, and junior psychologists, psychological therapists, or counsellors, and provide consultation, mentorship, supervision, and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users.
  • Contribute to the development, evaluation, and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation, and audit, and advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organizational matters need addressing.
  • Utilize research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit, and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally.
Requirements
  • Recognized accredited postgraduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in the Appendix.
  • Postgraduate doctoral level training in applied psychology, including 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).
  • Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
  • A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group served by the post, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy.
  • Experience of offering teaching, training, and supervision within a demanding organizational context.
  • Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organizational context.
  • Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
  • Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
  • A high-level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the appendix, as applied to the client group using this service.
  • Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the appendix.
  • Postgraduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex data analysis as practiced within clinical practice settings.
  • Experience and demonstrated effectiveness in working with the full range of clinical severity served by the service.
About Us

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a leading provider of mental health, learning disability, and substance misuse services throughout Sussex. We strive to realize the potential of everyone who uses our services and deliver care within the region. We promote high-quality clinical research and staff involvement in research and quality improvement. We have teaching status and are developing into one of the country's leading teaching mental health trusts. The Trust was rated as Good in the 2019 CQC inspection.



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