Practitioner Psychologist, East SOAMHS
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742.00 to £57,349.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742.00 - £57349.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Brighton, BN2 3EW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9354-24-1071 |
Summary
REQUIREMENTS In order to be a successful Practitioner Psychologist in our team, you will have: Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent). Professional registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings and a full range of clinical severity. Specialist experience gained post-qualification of working as an applied psychologist. The successful candidate will have skills and interests in supporting colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work and in contributing psychological perspectives to client's care plans. Another key role will be developing psychological formulation and team consultation and providing support, supervision and training to enhance psychologically based interventions within the wider team. Ideally, the post-holder will have a specialist interest in working with people in later life and people experiencing a dementia, their families and carers. You may also have specialist skills in dementia care or neuropsychology, or be interested in developing skills in these areas. You will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic multi-professional team and community of psychologists and psychological therapists working within SOAMHS locally and across the Trust. There will also be opportunities to connect with the broader psychological workforce working in the community mental health services in Brighton & Hove. We are fortunate to have a neuropsychologist on the specialist register of Clinical Neuropsychologists and supervision can be provided to develop skills and competencies in this area. The broader psychological workforce has expertise in a wide range of therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy, EMDR and systemic family therapy. For further information regarding the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust please visit our careers site https://careers.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ Please see the attached two Job Description documents for full details of either the Band 8a role, or the alternative Band 7 role with preceptorship to Band 8a. For informal enquiries you are very welcome to contact Dr Susan Whiting (Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Brighton SOAMHS) susan.whiting@spft.nhs.uk, Dr Sarah McCrimmon (Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologist, Brighton SOAMHS sarah.mccrimmon@spft.nhs.uk or Anne Fellbaum (Service Manager) on 0300 304 0092 to learn more about the post or arrange an informal visit to the team.