Clinical Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time substantive Psychologist to join our supportive and dedicated team at Chalkhill.

You would be supported to work closely with the multidisciplinary team, including Occupational Therapy, Family Therapy, Social Worker as well as Psychiatry and Nursing team and would be able to take on an active role in the design and implementation of innovations in care.

The Trust is supportive of ongoing professional development, and you would be supported to access regular CPD in addition to benefitting from a wide range of learning through the Trust training department. This post would suit a motivated psychologist who is dedicated to delivering high-quality care to young people and their families. We are very passionate about growing and developing our clinical psychologists in Tier 4 CAMHS and we therefore welcome applications from Trainee Clinical Psychologists., As a practitioner psychologist at Chalkhill, you will assess, plan, implement and evaluate psychological interventions delivered in the service as part of the psychological therapies team.

Opportunities would be available to develop your supervision and leadership skills in order to support your ongoing career development. Regular clinical supervision would be provided, and you would be supported to continue developing and expanding upon your clinical and professional skills.

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and are one of the largest providers of children and young people's mental health services across this area.

Chalkhill is one of very few adolescent inpatient services in England to provide a service for young people aged 13 to 18 years old presenting with a wide range of difficulties including severe mental health and/or complex neurodevelopmental conditions requiring assessment and/or intervention. You would be joining a dynamic and enthusiastic psychological therapies team formed by the Lead Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Psychologist and Trainee Psychologist, in providing effective assessment and evidence-based individual and group interventions to young people and their families or carers.

Our offer is for a career not just a job, in a team and a Trust committed to delivering the best care possible to the community whilst being committed to the wellbeing of its staff. Our staff are our greatest asset.

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, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

The position is full-time (37.5 hours per week). 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 options.