Job Description

If you are keen to grow your skills in working with adults with a range of presenting needs, or soon to qualify, this is an ideal post for you. Located in the Horsham Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT), this post involves working directly with service users, families, carers and the wider system providing complex assessments, evidence-based interventions and support to MDT colleagues with psychological practice.



We welcome applications from qualified Practitioner Psychologists, as well as current third year trainees applying for their first qualified post.



Our service users experience severe and enduring mental health difficulties and often struggle with social problems and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties. We are keen for the post holder to develop expertise on one of our clinical pathways such as psychosis and bipolar, Complex Emotional Needs and complex PTSD, and moderate-severe OCD/anxiety/depression.



To carry out specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care, in order to reach a psychological formulation of the client's difficulties.



Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is committed to becoming a diverse employer and inclusive workplace in which people from all backgrounds can belong and pursue enriching careers. We aspire to reflect the communities we serve and, therefore, encourage applications from candidates from a variety of backgrounds and experiences.



Please do contact us (below) for an informal conversation about the post or to arrange a visit. We would love to meet you and hear your ideas. Interviews will take place in person, in New Park House, Horsham.



Dr Emma Bell, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead for Psychology and Psychological Therapies in North West Sussex Adult Community Services emma.bell55@nhs.net 07738758120



To 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 and by participating in systematic clinical governance. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.



To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychology service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.



To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy. To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues. * To clinically supervise assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.