Practitioner Psychologist

Applications are invited from HCPC-registered Applied Psychologists to fill a newly created post at Mill View Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, motivated, creative and enthusiastic applied psychologist interested in working within Adult acute care, to join our skilled and motivated multidisciplinary team based at Mill View. The ward is part of a service implementing a new clinical model - aiming to deliver therapeutically and trauma informed care in an acute setting.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a key member of the acute clinical teams and must have a strong commitment to multi-disciplinary working. The role will include direct assessment and formulation of people with complex presentations, working with the whole team to develop formulations and care plans, direct interventions with service users and their families, supporting the wider team in their application of psychologically-informed approaches and supervision of colleagues. We are looking for someone with leadership skills appropriate to the grade such that you will be able to work alongside others to innovate and implement service improvements. The post-holder will ideally be familiar with working in an NHS setting. Experience in working with people with severe and complex mental health difficulties in crisis (across the age span) is required.

About us

We will support you in this role and provide regular clinical and professional supervision. We know the best way to provide outstanding care to our patients is through teamwork and sharing our ideas. We are also very fortunate to have a neuropsychologist working in our service who provides group supervision in neuropsychology which provides an excellent opportunity for developing your skills in this area. Brighton and Hove has an active psychology network and strong psychology leadership.

Job responsibilities

The post provides psychology input into the female acute ward, and the successful applicant will work closely with the Psychological Practitioners and therapies team across the unit. Applicants must be registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 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 Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).

Knowledge/Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Demonstrate specialist experience gained post-qualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours).
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• 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 including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience or demonstrable knowledge of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.