Practitioner Psychologist, East SOAMHS

at  Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Applications are invited from Practitioner Psychologists registered with the HCPC for a permanent Band 8a post (up to 22.5 hours per week) with options for flexible working in the Brighton & Hove Specialist Older Adults’ Mental Health Team (SOAMHS), based in our East Brighton hub.
This post is also available at Band 7 with preceptorship to Band 8a.
If you are new to working in SOAMHS we will be keen to consider any additional specialist training relevant to the post to support you to develop your knowledge, skills and confidence in this area.
You might also be interested in developing a specialism within your role to build your expertise in an area of interest, such as within dementia, neuropsychology, developing skills in CAIT, family work, trauma or complex emotional and relational needs. Please talk with us if you have an area of work you’re passionate about and would like to develop and we’ll see if we can support you.
SOAMHS is a multi-professional community team and psychologists are valued members of the service, offering specialist assessment and interventions, including neuropsychology. The post-holder will be creative and flexible and able to inspire others in working with people with dementia and older people with complex mental health problems, their families and carers.
Psychologists in SOAMHS are key members of our local leadership team and play a valuable role in team and service development. Our SOAMHS teams place a strong emphasis on co-production and drawing on the expertise of people with lived experience and we welcome staff who share these values to join our service.
We encourage and support flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

REQUIREMENTS

In order to be a successful Practitioner Psychologist in our team, you will have:
Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent).
Professional registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings and a full range of clinical severity.
Specialist experience gained post-qualification of working as an applied psychologist.
The successful candidate will have skills and interests in supporting colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work and in contributing psychological perspectives to client’s care plans. Another key role will be developing psychological formulation and team consultation and providing support, supervision and training to enhance psychologically based interventions within the wider team.
Ideally, the post-holder will have a specialist interest in working with people in later life and people experiencing a dementia, their families and carers. You may also have specialist skills in dementia care or neuropsychology, or be interested in developing skills in these areas.
You will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic multi-professional team and community of psychologists and psychological therapists working within SOAMHS locally and across the Trust. There will also be opportunities to connect with the broader psychological workforce working in the community mental health services in Brighton & Hove.
We are fortunate to have a neuropsychologist on the specialist register of Clinical Neuropsychologists and supervision can be provided to develop skills and competencies in this area. The broader psychological workforce has expertise in a wide range of therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy, EMDR and systemic family therapy.
For further information regarding the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust please visit our careers site https://careers.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/
Please see the attached two Job Description documents for full details of either the Band 8a role, or the alternative Band 7 role with preceptorship to Band 8a.
For informal enquiries you are very welcome to contact Dr Susan Whiting (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Brighton SOAMHS) susan.whiting@spft.nhs.uk , Dr Sarah McCrimmon (Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologist, Brighton SOAMHS sarah.mccrimmon@spft.nhs.uk or Anne Fellbaum (Service Manager) on 0300 304 0092 to learn more about the post or arrange an informal visit to the team

Please refer the Job description for details