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Applied Psychologist

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Applications are invited for a permanent Band 8b Applied Psychologist or Principal Psychotherapist post 0.4 wte (15 hours) within the Brighton & Hove Community Mental Health Services. The post has a specialist role in the delivery of Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy (CAT) training and supervision, and plays an important role in contributing to the delivery of the local CAT Practitioner Training Course. The postholder will be required to carry out some of the CAT assessments within the service. The post also has a Medical Education component with respect to the provision of Balint groups for medical colleagues working in the Trust and supervision of junior doctors in CAT, and will receive supervision from the Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy around this work.

Main duties of the job

To be eligible to apply for the post you will either be registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC, and in addition will be trained as a CAT Practitioner and ACAT accredited CAT Supervisor; or, you will be a CAT Psychotherapist accredited by ACAT and the UKCP, and in addition will be an ACAT accredited CAT supervisor. You will have significant experience of working as a Psychologist or Psychotherapist within NHS mental health services.

The post sits within Brighton and Hove Assessment & Treatment Service (ATS), which provides community mental health services for adults of all ages. The service is multi-professional and based across two hubs in East and West Brighton.

The ATS works with people with complex mental health problems, their families and carers. The post-holder will be also be expected to provide supervision and consultation to other psychologists, trainees and members of the multidisciplinary team where appropriate, and to support the leadership team in Psychology and Psychological Therapies and the wider ATS with various tasks.

About us

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services in and across Sussex. It aims to realise the potential of everyone who uses its services and to enable staff to do a great job. Sussex Partnership has teaching status and is developing into one of the countrys leading teaching mental health trusts. Working here offers continued training and development, variety and a rewarding challenge, plus all the benefits of living in Sussex.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic community of psychologists and psychological therapists in Brighton & Hove working as part of the Assessment and Treatment Service. The post-holder will need to be creative and flexible in adapting to change, and able to educate and inspire others in working with people with complex mental health problems.

Brighton Psychologists and Psychological Therapists are valued members of the service and offer specialist assessments and interventions, psychological formulation and team consultation. The post-holder will be embedded in a multi-disciplinary team so will need to be very enthusiastic about this way of working. The successful candidate will have skills and interests in supporting professional colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work and in contributing psychological perspectives to service users care plans.

This role is also open to Principal Psychotherapists , please refer to vacancy number 354-AB-20279 on NHS jobs.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HPC, including specifically 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 (HPC).
• Qualification as a CAT Practitioner or CAT Psychotherapist.
• Registered with ACAT as a CAT Practitioner or CAT Psychotherapist and CAT Supervisor.
• Qualification as a CAT supervisor.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HPC.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Experience of working together with service users to ensure that they are equal partners in service design, evaluation, research and training.

For full information and to apply please visit: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/direct_apply/?vac_ref=916852819

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