Job Overview

B8a Clinical Psychologist 9 month maternity leave cover

We are seeking to recruit a passionate, knowledgeable and dynamic Clinical Psychologist to join our Specialist Family Eating Disorder Service (SFEDS) based at Aldrington House Hove. SFEDS works with young people aged 10-18 with an eating disorder and their families across Sussex, and supports recovery through evidence based interventions such as the Maudsley Family Therapy models and E-CBT. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality evidence based treatment in accordance with NICE Guidelines and National Access and Waiting Times Standards.

You will be joining a service of highly skilled and experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapists, Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Psychology and Assistant Psychologists, Nurses, Dietitian, Support Workers and OTs. You will work as a member of the clinical service/team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers. In addition, to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training.

You will participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to assistant, trainee and more junior psychologists and other staff. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service. We offer and support hybrid and flexible working, we require staff to be on site for 60% of their working week.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service.
To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload.
To use analytical and judgement skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
To clinically supervise assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and junior psychologists, psychological therapists or counsellors and other staff as appropriate.
To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
To complete assessments of those referred to the service and outcome this in a timely manner in line with code of Conduct.
To provide consultation, mentorship, supervision as appropriate.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services.
To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally.

Working for our organisation

At SPFT we provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children.

Working In Sussex

Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns
Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure.

We’d love you to join our organisation that is 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 Staff 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.

Requirements

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent).

Experience of working with young people with an eating disorder preferred although not essential.
Extensive experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
Experience of supervising staff.
Wide knowledge of local and national policies.

MAIN DUTIES

To carry out specialist psychological assessments of young people referred to the service.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

For more information or an informal discussion please contact Jay Jameson-Allen, General Manager (email protected) telephone number or Pratima Hurrymun (email protected) telephone number .

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 HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Professionally registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).

Desirable criteria

Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Knowledge And Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
Demonstrate specialist experience gained post-qualification of working as an applied psychologist.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.

Skills

Essential criteria

Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively.
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulation and management.
Ability to plan and manage a complex work load with competing demands.
IT skills - ability to use a computer and input information to the Trust patient information record.

Approach and Values

Essential Criteria

Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust.
Ability to travel across sites.

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