Job summary
Employer heading
Lead Consultant Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8d
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
An exciting secondment opportunity for a part time Lead Consultant Psychologist (job share) to provide professional leadership for all psychologists working in Forensic Healthcare Services. To be responsible, in collaboration with the Service Director and other Care Group senior leadership, for the provision, and development of psychological services for the care group, ensuring the delivery of high-quality psychological services.Ìý To hold a specialist case load.
Main duties of the job
·Ìý Ìý Ìý To be accountable as part of the CDS leadership team for the management of Trust finances and business development.Ìý
·Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýTo represent the CDS across Trust-wide services in developing new services, bidding for new business and negotiating contracts with commissioners of services.Ìý
·Ìý Ìý To provide professional leadership for psychology and psychological therapies for the CDS across Trust-wide services.Ìý
·Ìý To work autonomously within professional guidelines and to provide professional leadership by exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the CDS across Trust-wide services.Ìý
·Ìý ÌýTo propose and implement policy and service development changes in relation to psychology and psychological therapies across the service.Ìý
· ÌýTo ensure that systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal and identification of CPD are in place and working effectively across the service. Ìý
·Ìý To be responsible for the development of applied psychology services within the care group, including clear systems for effective recruitment, and workforce planning in line with the Trust’s business plan and the CDS service model.Ìý
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý A major requirement of the job is to initiate, lead and carry out, audit, research and training programmes and to propose and implement policy and service development changes within the care group.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To hold a specialist case load.
Working for our organisation
SPFTÌýis a large NHS organisation that offers clinical and social care services to children, young people, adults and older adults, with emotional and mental health problems or learning disabilities. We provide servicesÌýto the people of Brighton and Hove, East and West Sussex with Children & Young People’s Services provided across Sussex and Hampshire. The Trust operates as part of a wider network of health and social care and works in partnership with both statutory and non-statutory agencies. The Trust benefits from a thrivingÌýSussex-wide psychiatry training scheme where HE Kent, Surrey and Sussex provide foundation, GP, core and higher trainees. We work closely with Brighton and Sussex Medical School, in 2015 we became a member of the Association of UK University Hospitals, the representative body for university hospitals with major teaching and research interests across the UK and internationally. Our vision isÌýto improve the quality of life for the communities we serve. The clinical strategy and organisational strategy we have developed underpin this by providing frameworks to enable sustained improvements in the quality of care we provide. With our Integrated Care System partners, we have developed a compelling case for change in mental health services which strives to improve the links between health and social care to better serve our communities. The Trust is rated by the CQC asÌýGoodÌýfor being safe, effective, responsive and well-led and asÌýOutstanding for caring.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description for more detailÌý
Clinical - Overall: To be responsible for the delivery of a high quality, effective and safe psychology and psychological therapies service within the Forensic Health Care Service in order to meet Trust wide strategic aims and objectives.
Teaching, training and supervision: Overall: To directly contribute to the Forensic Healthcare strategic aims and objectives.
Management, Leadership, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
Research and service evaluation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 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.
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to the specific Care Group/Service.
- HPC Registered as a practitioner Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
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
- George Guerges
- Job title
- Service Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- DDI:03003736188
- Additional information
Debbie Barrington-Smith
0300 304 2062Ìý
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