Specialist Psychological Therapist, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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Are you a psychological therapist looking for a new challenge in a beautiful part of the country? We have an exciting role for a psychological therapist in our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team based in Chichester. The Crisis team provides support and mental health interventions for people who have complex mental health needs. This is an exciting time to join our service as we are reviewing and updating our psychological therapy provision across the service. We are keen to expand our offer of groups and increase access to psychological therapies for our clients – we are interested in exploring and implementing range of creative and innovative approaches to help us to do this and would welcome your ideas and experience in this process.

The successful candidate will join a friendly, highly-skilled and enthusiastic multi-professional team comprising a full range of professionals including psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, peer support workers, social workers, support workers, and occupational therapists.

As part of the wider Western mental health service you will also be joining a community of psychological therapists who bring a rich variety of skills and experience. You will receive regular clinical supervision from an experienced practitioner psychologist, or psychological therapist depending on your needs, as well as a commitment to your own continuing professional development. Our Trust has an exciting and extensive range of CPD opportunities including accredited training in EMDR, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, Family Interventions in Psychosis, Interpersonal Psychotherapy and many more. The post-holder will be encouraged to develop special interests and expertise in line with service and team objectives.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services in and across Sussex. The Trust has teaching status and is one of the country’s leading teaching and research mental health trusts. We have excellent links with local universities and associated training schemes including the University of Surrey Clinical Psychology doctorate course. Psychological Therapies are highly valued in Sussex Partnership and Psychological Therapists occupy a range of senior positions across the Trust. Working here offers continued training and development, variety, plus all the benefits of living in Sussex. Sussex is a beautiful county with excellent schools, good transport links, vibrant communities, rural areas, and tourist attractions, including the Coast and the South Downs. We would welcome informal visits and / or a telephone call to tell you more about our service and this post. The Trust has recently been rated by the CQC as Good overall and Outstanding for care.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Delaney Job title: Clinical Lead nurseEmail address: lucy.delaney@spft.nhs.ukTelephone number: 07765 806893

Pallavi Bala, Principal Psychologist and Professional lead for Acute Psychology/Psychological Therapies on 07471217099 Pallavi.bala@spft.nhs.uk