Overview
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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, disadvantaged 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.
Responsibilities
* 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.
About Us
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. 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 survey shows high regard for patient care as a top priority.
Other key survey results include:
* 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
Details
* Date posted: 22 August 2025
* Pay scheme: Agenda for change
* Band: Band 8a
* Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 a year pro rata
* Contract: Fixed term
* Duration: 12 months
* Working pattern: Part-time
* Reference number: 354-AB-20952
* Job locations: Community Mental Health Centre, Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove, Brighton, BN2 3EW
Job Description
Please see the attached Job Description 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
Qualifications
Essential
* 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 models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
* Forensic psychologists: Masters degree with the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent
* 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 (outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings).
* Experience of post-qualification specialist work as an applied psychologist with substantial clinical supervision (normally around 50 hours).
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, design and complex multivariate data analysis in clinical psychology.
* Experience with diverse client groups across the life span and ability to maintain professionalism in challenging circumstances.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience applying psychology in different cultural contexts and working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience representing psychology within multi-disciplinary care.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check information and sponsorship details are available in the original posting.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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