Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Eastbourne Acute & Urgent Care

We are recruiting a Principal Practitioner Psychologist to provide a clinical service for our working age acute wards and crisis team in Eastbourne and Seaford, and professional leadership for our acute and urgent care psychology and psychological therapy services across East Sussex. The service is well established and this would be an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical and leadership expertise alongside a team of committed colleagues in psychology, psychological therapy and other disciplines. It is open to people seeking promotion from a lower banding or looking for a new challenge at principal level.

This exciting and rewarding opportunity is open to people seeking promotion from a lowerbanding or looking for a new challenge at principal level. For psychologists who are currentlyworking at more junior levels we would support a preceptorship plan from 8a to 8b. This willbe to a very recently agreed trust-wide protocol reflecting our professional commitment tosupporting the development of our staff., To provide a professional or clinical leadership role within the clinical service/ team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations. In addition to be responsible for the supervision and governance of a group of psychologists and psychological therapists with the specified service and to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

This is an opportunity to join an organisation which sets a high priority on the development of services which are responsive to service user and carer's views and to work with dedicated and supportive colleagues. The trust is committed to strong integrated, collaborative leadership between managers and clinicians.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a leading teaching and research mental health trust. We were granted teaching status in 2008 in recognition of our research background and our links with the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and other academic institutions. Currently we are in the top 12 mental health trusts in terms of research participants. Applicants with an interest in research will be welcomed.