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Location

Chichester, West Sussex | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job overview

Are you a psychological therapist looking for a new challenge in a beautiful part of the country? We have an exciting role for a psychological therapist in our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team based in Chichester. The Crisis team provides support and mental health interventions for people who have complex mental health needs. This is an exciting time to join our service as we are reviewing and updating our psychological therapy provision across the service. We are keen to expand our offer of groups and increase access to psychological therapies for our clients - we are interested in exploring and implementing range of creative and innovative approaches to help us to do this and would welcome your ideas and experience in this process.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic multi-professional team comprising a full range of professionals including psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, peer support workers, social workers, support workers, and occupational therapists.

As part of the wider Western mental health service you will also be joining a community of psychological therapists who bring a rich variety of skills and experience. You will receive regular clinical supervision from an experienced practitioner psychologist, or psychological therapist depending on your needs, as well as a commitment to your own continuing professional development. Our Trust has an exciting and extensive range of CPD opportunities including accredited training in EMDR, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Family Interventions in Psychosis, Interpersonal Psychotherapy and many more. The post-holder will be encouraged to develop special interests and expertise in line with service and team objectives.

Working for our organisation

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services in and across Sussex. The Trust has teaching status and is one of the country's leading teaching and research mental health trusts. We have excellent links with local universities and associated training schemes including the University of Surrey Clinical Psychology doctorate course. Psychological Therapies are highly valued in Sussex Partnership and Psychological Therapists occupy a range of senior positions across the Trust. Working here offers continued training and development, variety, plus all the benefits of living in Sussex. Sussex is a beautiful county with excellent schools, good transport links, vibrant communities, rural areas, and tourist attractions, including the Coast and the South Downs. We would welcome informal visits and / or a telephone call to tell you more about our service and this post. The Trust has recently been rated by the CQC as Good overall and Outstanding for care.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our Trust has an exciting and extensive range of CPD opportunities including accredited training in EMDR, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Family Interventions in Psychosis, Interpersonal Psychotherapy and many more. The post-holder will be encouraged to develop special interests and expertise in line with service and team objectives. The post-holder will have the opportunity to work with people with a wide range of mental health problems, providing assessments and interventions to clients, their families and carers, as well as support to the team through case formulation and reflective practice.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Recognised/accredited postgraduate level training in a psychological therapy as specified in one of the Appendices
• Professionally registered as specified in the same Appendix

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Substantial post-qualification/accreditation experience of specialist psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), as specified in the same Appendix, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• A high level of competence in applying a psychological therapy to complex difficulties appropriate for this therapy with the client group, and a proven track record of delivering positive outcomes in this therapy
• Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context.
• A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
• Experience of representing psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care within a complex organisational context
• Significant experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service
• Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
• A high-level specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapy as specified in the same appendix, as applied to the client group using this service
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the professional registration/accrediting body specified in the same appendix

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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Salary

£43.74k - £50.06k per annum