Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Professional Lead for PP
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Consultant Practitioner Psychologist (Band 8c)
We are seeking to appoint an exceptional Consultant Practitioner Psychologist (Band 8c) to provide strategic and clinical leadership across our 3 Community Learning Disability Services in the Coastal, Northern and Western areas of West Sussex. We envisage some time will be spent in each team. This is a unique opportunity to shape and influence psychological services at a senior level while maintaining a specialist clinical role in the context of supportive and innovative multi-disciplinary teams.
About the Role
As a key member of the West Sussex leadership team, you will lead the psychology staff (which includes band 8b, 8a, 7, Assistant Psychologists and Behaviour Practitioners) in the development, delivery and continuous improvement of high-quality, evidence-based psychological care pathways.
You will be a highly experienced, HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist with a doctoral qualification in applied psychology and significant relevant post-qualification experience in learning disability services. You will demonstrate strong leadership skills, advanced clinical expertise, and a commitment to compassionate and inclusive, person-centred care. This senior role offers the chance to make a meaningful difference across multiple teams and pathways.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead the psychology staff in the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of high-quality, evidence-based psychological care pathways.
- Provide strategic leadership and advanced clinical practice, including managing a small complex caseload and providing expert assessment, formulation, and intervention.
- Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams through consultation, supervision, and training, ensuring psychologically informed care is embedded across services.
- Play a vital role in workforce development through the appraisal process, leading supervision frameworks, supporting staff wellbeing, and driving service improvement through audit, research, and evaluation.
- Build upon and benefit from the close working relationships that we have with our local universities and training courses. We are also a research active clinical group, who are well supported by the Trust’s research department.
- There is on-going opportunity for high quality CPD; focused on developing the workforce we need to deliver our care pathways.
Our Services
Our work is focused mainly across mental health and behaviour support pathways, but we also input into the service's work around complex physical health. The service also provides dementia and autism assessment for those people meeting the service's eligibility criteria. The post holder will work in partnership with operational management and other professional leads to drive innovation, embed best practice, and ensure services are responsive to the complex and challenging needs of people with learning disabilities and offering support to their families, carers and service providers. You will build on the excellent reputation we have both locally and nationally in relation to intensive support provision.
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Benefits
You will have the ability to prioritise and manage your own diary and the ability to work and be mobile across West Sussex and beyond your local area.
How to Apply
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jane Edmond
- Job title: Professional Lead for Psychology LD & NDS
- Email address: jane.edmonds@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07770971597
We welcome telephone conversations regarding the role and if time a visit to the service. Our preference will be for face to face interviews at one of the West Sussex CLDT bases.
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