Job Description

We are hoping to appoint a Senior Practitioner Psychologist or Senior CBT Therapist to our level two in-patient adult mental mental service in Horsham. The post is for three days a week and may also suit a newly qualified or soon-to-be qualified practitioner psychologist on a preceptorship basis.



You will be working with a highly resourced MDT including a Principal Psychologist providing a range of direct and indirect evidence-based approaches to our service users.



You will be working alongside alongside a Principal Practitioner Psychologist in providing a range of interventions including schema therapy, CBT, EMDR and Behavioural and Systemic Family interventions.



The post holder will work as part of a MDT supporting service users through assessment, formulation and delivering long-term evidence-based interventions to service users.



The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic community of psychologists in the Forensic subdivision of the Specialist Services Division. 78 Crawley Road, whilst not a forensic service, sits under the forensic leadership structures.



The service encourages flexible working.



The forensic services provide CPD opportunities including training in the HCR-20, EMDR, schema therapy and behavioural family therapy.



Our Trust has an exciting range of CPD opportunities and the post-holder will be encouraged to develop special interests and expertise in line with service and team objectives. We have set up a newly qualified peer support group and the Trust is focused on developing staff wellbeing initiatives.



You will be working as part of MDT, providing specialist assessments, formulations and interventions.



Please refer to the attached job description for more details about the role.