Job summary
Employer heading
CAMHS Acute Senior Practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7/8a
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Chalkhill is an inpatient unit which supports young people presenting with complex and acute presentations. Formulations are developed in collaboration with the entire MDT and a wider network around the young person, leading to interventions which use a whole team approach. Given the need for this integrated approach, joining the Chalkhill team offers a rare opportunity to work closely and intensively with the young person, their family/carers and the MDT to support the young person. There is an opportunity to understand and apply the principles of legal frameworks when developing care plans and to develop consultation skills to support professionals working with young person and their families. The post-holder would be joining the team at a time of development, with a new eating disorder pathway and opportunities to receive training and develop skills in this area. Sussex CAMHS will also be launching the Hospital at Home, intensive home treatment pathway as an alternative to admission, which will work closely with the inpatient multi-disciplinary team.Ìý
You will be working closely with nursing, psychiatry, occupational therapy, family therapy, social work and mental health practitioners across the Chalkhill inpatient setting.Ìý
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Main duties of the job
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·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate. Ìý ·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists Ìý ·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate. Ìý ·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. Ìý ·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To 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 to advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. Ìý ·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally. Ìý |
To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service
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Working for our organisation
Join Sussex Partnership and you'll be part of an NHS trust that allows you to thrive and, in turn, thrives because of you. We believe in the vibrancy of our fantastic people. And how that leads to even better support for the people who use our services.Ìý
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1.ÌýÌýÌýÌý To carry out specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, in order to reach a psychological formulation of the client’s difficulties. Ìý 2.ÌýÌýÌýÌý To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. Ìý 3.ÌýÌýÌýÌý To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. Ìý |
To provide specialist assessments of clients presenting with cognitive impairment due to a variety of causes or organic conditions, including pre-assessment counselling and neuropsychological and functional assessments, and to be able to adjust psychological interventions to work effectively with people presenting with complex needs due to cognitive impairment and organic disorders
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as approved by the HCPC
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological working (assessment, formulation and treatment) 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, inpatient and residential care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
- High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
- Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chantal Lardner
- Job title
- CAMHS Acute Principle Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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