Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

We are recruiting Senior Psychological Therapists- Locality Lead to join our expanding IAPT service.

Health in Mind is an improving access to Psychological Therapies service (IAPT) that offers a full range of IAPT compliant therapies and job roles. As a service we support people presenting with mild to moderate anxiety disorders and depression. Please see our website for further information on https://www.healthinmind.org.uk/.

These are permanent, full-time posts (37.5 hours per week) though we will consider applications from those that wish to work flexibly and are open to discussions around remote and home working.

Health in Mind covers the whole of East Sussex (with the exception of Brighton and Hove) and the successful applicant will be assigned to a more specific geographical locality upon appointment. Preference will be discussed at interview.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit Senior Psychological Therapists who will have responsibility for the clinical leadership of CBT Provision within a locality within the Health in Mind service.

There are 3 main localities/areas that Health in Mind cover. West (Lewes and High Weald), Central (Eastbourne) & East (Hastings and Rother).

This is an exciting opportunity for a BABCP accredited CBT clinician who is looking to progress, develop their leadership skills and support the development of CBT within your area. With IAPT services expanding and the workforce growing this is a great opportunity to be part of that.

The role will require you to have a number of years of supervisory experience of both those in training and qualified CBT clinicians, as well as extensive experience of practicing as a CBT therapist within IAPT. The role involves close liaison with the other locality leads in your area, as well as operational colleagues.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further details

Working for our organisation

As a large mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. We can offer you:

• The opportunity to work in an expanding service, which has national recognition.
• Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes, run by our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the role and responsibilities please see attached job description

If you have any questions regarding the role and would like to make contact please contact

Liz Gore-Area Clinical Lead (Central area) elizabeth.gore@nhs.net

Musa Nyoni- Area Clinical Lead (East Area) musawenkosi.nyoni@nhs.net

Sam Hardwick- Area Clinical Lead (West Area) samantha.hardwick@nhs.net

Person specification

Qualifactions
Essential criteria

• Doctoral level qualification in a. Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or equivalent or extensive experience of delivering psychological therapies to an equivalent level.
• Post Graduate Training in CBT to diploma, masters or doctorate level.
• BABCP accredited or eligible for accreditation by BABCP within a one year period

Knowledge
Essential criteria

• Extensive experience of undertaking psychological therapy with patients with common mental health disorders
• Experience of treating patients with a range of psychotherapy presentations
• Experience of working in a range of mental health settings including Primary Care, outpatient, community
• Application of CBT to complex mental health problems.
• Psychological theories that relate to human lifespan.
• Capacity to work with different professions and disciplines.
• Ability to work with challenging behaviour in therapy
• Knowledge of work / mental wellbeing link and integration with psychological therapy interventions. Ability to organise own caseload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines.
• Ability to offer consultation and supervision to trainees and colleagues and non professional groups
• Experience of providing supervision.
• To provide evidence of a commitment to continuing professional developments as recommended by the BABCP or appropriate professional body
• Ability to provide specialist information to aid service development and policy decisions
• To undertake such research as is appropriate to clinical practice and contribute to service audit and evaluation
• Ability to work within professional guidelines and Trust policies.

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.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.