Are you a Practitioner Psychologist with a passion for working with Older Adults? Whether you are experienced, newly qualified or about to qualify - we want to hear from you!
Applications are invited from Practitioner Psychologists to join our well established multi-disciplinary team in Specialist Older Adult Mental Health Services (SOAMHS). You’ll be based in Hastings, working collaboratively with psychiatrists, MHWPs, mental health nurses, occupational therapists and therapy assistants.
Please talk with us if you have an area of work you’re passionate about and keen to develop expertise in, such as dementia care, neuropsychology, developing skills in CAIT, family work, trauma or complex emotional and relational needs. We’d be keen to hear and see what we can do to support your career development.
Newly qualified psychologists and those completing their training shortly are invited to apply; the role can be offered as a Band 7 preceptorship moving to 8a after successful completion of the preceptorship (Please note, if there is an outstanding dissertation due to be submitted within 6 month delaying HCPC registration but all clinical placements and training are completed this would be offered as a fixed term trainee role until HCPC registration)
SOAMHS is a multi-professional community team and psychologists are valued members of the service, offering specialist assessment and interventions, including neuropsychology. You will be creative and flexible and able to inspire others in working with older people with complex mental health problems and comorbidities (including frailty and dementia), 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.
You 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.
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. 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.

LIVING & WORKING IN HASTINGS:

• Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there’s always new experiences to be enjoyed
• The city is also host to lots of cosy pubs and quirky bars for you to visit, and good shopping facilities.
  Ideally, the post-holder will have a specialist interest and experience of 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.
  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
  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 community mental health services in Hastings.
  You will work as a member of the clinical 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.
  You will participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to assistant, trainee and more junior psychologists and other staff. You will utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
  See full Job Description for details

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.

Please do contact us for a chat if you want to check whether your experience meets the needs of the role.
For further information regarding the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust please visit our careers site https://careers.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details

Please refer the Job description for details