Applications are invited from Practitioner Psychologists registered with the HCPC for a permanent Band 8a post (up to 33.5 hours per week) with options for flexible working in the Brighton & Hove Mental Health Homeless Team (MHHT) based in East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre, Brighton General Hospital. Mental Health Homeless Team. As the psychologist within the Mental Health Homeless Team you can make your own powerful contribution by helping us support some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged 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. Please talk with us if you have an area of work youre passionate about and would like to develop and well see if we can support you. We encourage calling the service to ask any questions from applicants, or arrange an informal visit. Main duties of the job As a Senior Practitioner psychologist, you will; • Apply skills and expertise in psychological assessments • Hold a caseload of clients. • Collaboratively develop formulations and care plans, • Facilitate group and individual psychological interventions • Provide case consultations and reflective practice sessions for staff • Provide teaching, training and supervision, to assistant and trainee psychologists. About us 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, well do our best to make it happen. Your benefits: • Access to a host of discount schemes including reductions on fuel, high street and online purchases, as well as Blue Light Card advantages • Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days 8 bank holidays) • Excellent NHS Pension • Discounted gym memberships • A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC • Access to full psychological support via our internal wellbeing team • Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development Living & working in Brighton: • Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns theres always new experiences to be enjoyed • Great transport links with Brighton train station linking up directly with major cities such as Portsmouth and London, whilst also being a 30-minute train ride to Gatwick Airport • The city is also host to lots of cosy pubs and quirky bars for you to visit • There are also plenty of shops for you to browse during your lunch break or after work, with Churchill shopping centre being the main attraction Job responsibilities Applications are welcome from enthusiastic and experienced psychologists with specialist knowledge and skills of working with severe and enduring mental health difficulties such as complex trauma, psychosis and personality difficulties. Equally important are leadership skills and the ability to develop innovative practice and play a lead role in service development. We are looking for someone who can contribute at a senior level to the vision of the MHHT as it continues to develop towards an improved service model. The successful applicant would receive professional supervision and be professionally and clinically accountable to and managed by the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist. Requirements include. • To work as a member of the Mental Health Homeless 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. • To participate in systematic clinical governance and to offer clinical supervision to assistant, trainee and more junior psychologists and other staff. 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 provide consultation, mentorship, supervision and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users, across a range of agencies/ settings as appropriate. • To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit, and to advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. 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 • For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of 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, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings • Demonstrate specialist experience gained postqualification 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. • Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group and mental health. • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)