Principal Psychological Therapist (SlowMo)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Main area Research and Development Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract Fixed term: 17 months (Contract period: Feb 2025 - 30th June 2026)
Hours Part time - 15 hours per week
Job ref 354-CO-21541
Site Sussex Education Centre Town Hove
Salary £62,215 - £72,293 Pro Rata Salary period Yearly
Closing 08/01/2025 23:59
Interview date 23/01/2025
Job overview
This post can be stand-alone at 0.4 WTE (2 days) or there may be other trust posts that could be combined with this role, subject to usual recruitment processes.
Are you an experienced CBT for psychosis therapist, supervisor, and trainer, interested in how technology can improve access, experience, and outcomes? This is an exciting opportunity to be a Clinical Implementation Lead for a new Wellcome funded study.
SlowMo is a class I UKCA marked digitally supported therapy for psychosis. It works by targeting fast-thinking habits associated with paranoia and supports people to slow down their thinking to find ways of feeling safer. In our large, multi-centre RCT, SlowMo was efficacious, highly engaging and deliverable, with improvements in paranoia, worry, self-concept, quality of life and wellbeing.
SlowMo2 will investigate if these benefits translate to real world settings, in an observational study of implementation, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness. This unique post will support implementation of SlowMo2 in SPFT, alongside a friendly, supportive interdisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
You will:
* Train an initial cohort of trust therapists in SlowMo, supported by the project leads, in a train the trainer model.
* Provide consultation and supervision of therapists delivering SlowMo, including Clinical Psychologists and newer roles (e.g. APs, CAPs, MHWPs).
* Promote therapist adoption of SlowMo in routine care with the aim to deliver 50 therapy cases by December 2025.
* Liaise with project leads, software developers and local IT to help maintain the performance and safety of the SlowMo software, in line with the UKCA mark.
* Supervise site Assistant Psychologists to support data collection to high standards, in line with study protocols, in liaison with the Study Coordinator.
* Oversee reporting and transfer of research data to project leads, in line with research governance.
* Liaise with R&D regarding ethical amendments and recruitment.
* Collaborate with project and site implementation leads to develop an automated training package and implementation logic model, as study outputs.
Person specification
Qualifications
* An approved post graduate / Masters level qualification (or equivalent) in a recognised psychological therapy
* Professionally registered as a psychological therapist with relevant registration body
* Evidence of relevant continuing professional development as required by the registration body
* Evidence of post-qualification training in clinical supervision
* Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, supervision and/or other fields of psychological therapy.
Knowledge / Experience
* An established track record in providing CBT for psychosis therapies according to specific models
* An established track record in providing supervision for band 7 and 8a therapists in CBT for psychosis utilising specific models
* Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment,
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
* Experience of offering clinical and professional supervision.
* Personal experience of physical and/or mental health problems or caring for someone with mental health or physical health problems
Skills
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Skills in clinical project management and resource allocation.
* Experience of managing conflicting demands and deadlines
* Ability to manage complex and demanding situations.
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
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