Job Description

Applications are invited from Practitioner Psychologists registered with the HCPC for a one-year secondment to cover maternity leave (starting in October 2025), based at the East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Brighton General Hospital.



As the psychologist within the Mental Health Homeless Team (MHHT), you can make your own powerful contribution by helping us support some of the most vulnerable, disadvanta ged and marginalised people in society. Our service works with rough sleepers and insecurely housed individuals across Brighton and Hove, who have a severe and enduring mental illness and who may have additional substance misuse problems.



The MHHT is an exciting community mental health service that collaborates with colleagues from the housing department, health workers and VCS organisations.



You will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team of



mental health nurses, social workers, an STR worker and a consultant psychiatrist.



We invite applications from people who are already in an 8a post and who are motivated to work with this population, as well as suitable applicants who are currently in a Band 7 role for whom this could be an opportunity to gain experience in an 8a role.



As a Senior Practitioner psychologist, you will;



Apply skills and expertise in psychological assessments.

Hold a caseload of clients.

Offer individual and group psychological interventions to clients and their families/carers.

Collaboratively develop formulations and care plans.

Provide case consultations and formulation sessions to other agency partners in the community.

Deliver reflective practice sessions for staff (to support staff wellbeing).

Contribute a psychological perspective and advice in MDT meetings where appropriate and contribute to complex clinical decision making about clients.

Provide teaching, training and supervision, to assistant and trainee psychologists.



Sussex Partnership provides mental health care for all age groups across Sussex.



We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.



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.

Other key survey results:

70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work

79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team



77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles



Please see the attached document for full details of the role and responsibilities.



For further information regarding the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk