Assistant Psychologist, East Ats

Do you want to experience living and working in the bustling seaside city of Brighton & Hove?
Are you a Psychology graduate with a passion for working in the NHS and Mental Health?
Would you like to get experience of working in a specialist mental health service?
The Assessment & Treatment Service is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join our multi-disciplinary community mental health team, supervised by our psychologists. This is a permanent post for 5 days per week (Mon-Fri). We have two of these posts vacant - one of these is based at Brighton General Hospital (Elm Grove, Brighton), and the other is at Mill View Hospital (Nevill Avenue, Hove).
You will be part of a strong multi-disciplinary specialist community mental health team and will receive clinical supervision from HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologists. Not only will you gain substantial clinical experience, you will be joining us at a time of significant change during our transformation of mental health services. One of our key strategic aims is to increase access to evidence-based psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions for people with severe mental health problems.
**In this role, your responsibilities will include**:

- Providing support, co-ordination and administration to the multi-disciplinary assessment clinics, including sitting in on front-line clinical assessments;
- Gaining first-hand experience of risk assessments & undertaking collaborative care planning to engage people who are unwell and distressed due to their mental health;
- Working alongside qualified mental health practitioners as part of the psychosis, personality disorder or mood & trauma pathways to deliver interventions within our Assessment & Treatment Service (ATS);

You will possess excellent IT skills, be proficient in the use of Excel and PowerPoint, have good audit and evaluation skills and a good knowledge of routine outcome measures and service user feedback tools.
We are committed to supporting you on your journey to becoming a practitioner psychologist and to learn about other roles and training opportunities in mental health. Supervision and wider professional support will be available to you, as well as further training and development opportunities on offer within the Trust.
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
**Living & Working in Brighton & Hove**:
Be spoilt for choice with Brighton's iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractions
Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstep
Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park
We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
**Key staff survey results include**:
70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Sussex Partnership is a fantastic Trust to work for and psychology is highly valued. Our teams are welcoming and enthusiastic about providing the best possible care for people who access our services.
Full details about this role can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification. In summary
- Gaining psychologically informed skills in different therapy models and providing, under supervision, mental health interventions
- Under supervision, developing collaborative risk & care plans with the people who use our services
- Learning how to write psychological formulations and risk management plans
- Contributing to treatment pathways for psychosis, personality disorder, mood & trauma
- Developing a system to monitor routine outcome measures
- Assisting with audit and research
- Learning the strengths of a multi-disciplinary approach to healthcare
- Gaining valuable insight into how services are changing as part of our transformation of mental health services in Sussex