Job summary
Employer heading
Principal Psychological Therapist (SlowMo)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
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
This post can be stand-alone at 0.4 WTE (2 days) or there may be other trust posts that could be combined with this role, subject to usual recruitment processes.
Are you an experienced CBT for psychosis therapist, supervisor, and trainer, interested in how technology can improve access, experience, and outcomes?Ìý This is an exciting opportunity to be a Clinical Implementation Lead for a new Wellcome funded study.
SlowMo is a class I UKCA marked digitally supported therapy for psychosis. It works by targeting fast-thinking habits associated with paranoia and supports people to slow down their thinking to find ways of feeling safer. In our large, multi-centre RCT, SlowMo was efficacious, highly engaging and deliverable, with improvements in paranoia, worry, self-concept, quality of life and wellbeing.
SlowMo2 will investigate if these benefits translate to real world settings, in an observational study of implementation, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness. This unique post will support implementation of SlowMo2 in SPFT, alongside a friendly, supportive interdisciplinary team.
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Proposed date of interview is 23rd January.
Main duties of the job
You will:
- Train an initial cohort of trust therapists in SlowMo, supported by the project leads, in a train the trainer model.
- Provide consultation and supervision of therapists delivering SlowMo, including Clinical Psychologists and newer roles (e.g. APs, CAPs, MHWPs).
- Promote therapist adoption of SlowMo in routine care with the aim to deliver 50 therapy cases by December 2025.
- Liaise with project leads, software developers and local IT to help maintain the performance and safety of the SlowMo software, in line with the UKCA mark.
- Supervise site Assistant Psychologists to support data collection to high standards, in line with study protocols, in liaison with the Study Coordinator.
- Oversee reporting and transfer of research data to project leads, in line with research governance.
- Liaise with R&D regarding ethical amendments and recruitment.
- Collaborate with project and site implementation leads to develop an automated training package and implementation logic model, as study outputs.Ìý
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Living and Working in West Sussex:
- Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns
- Embrace the South Coast with a great range of historic and contemporary seaside towns
- According to the Met Office West Sussex is the sunniest county in the UK, making exploring the vast countryside all the more enjoyable
- We also have great schools locally.
We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Key survey results include:
- 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
- 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the accompanying Job Description (JD) and SloMo Information leaflet for more details about his job role and the project.Ìý
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An approved post graduate / Masters level qualification (or equivalent) in a recognised psychological therapy
- Professionally registered as a psychological therapist with relevant registration body
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development as required by the registration body
- Evidence of post-qualification training in clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, supervision and/or other fields of psychological therapy.
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria
- An established track record in providing CBT for psychosis therapies according to specific models
- An established track record in providing supervision for band 7 and 8a therapists in CBT for psychosis utilising specific models
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist.
- 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
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment,
- 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.
- Experience of offering clinical and professional supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Personal experience of physical and/or mental health problems or caring for someone with mental health or physical health problems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in clinical project management and resource allocation.
- Experience of managing conflicting demands and deadlines
- Ability to manage complex and demanding situations.
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
- Kathryn Greenwood
- Job title
- Professor of Clinical Psychology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07879 551385
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