About the Role
We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and provide community sentence treatment in partnership with the Probation Service and substance use services. Based at Hastings Probation, you will work with partner agencies delivering psychological interventions to individuals with complex and often marginalised needs.
What You’ll Do
- Play a key part in the MHTR pathway, supporting and improving psychological care for service users.
- Deliver psychological assessments and interventions appropriate to the patient’s needs and your level of training and experience.
- Work autonomously with your workload, objectives, and progress overseen through regular supervision by an HCPC‑registered Practitioner Psychologist.
- Assess client suitability for interventions and typically support service users for up to 12 sessions.
- Risk assess and plan care collaboratively with service users.
- Set collaborative goals and implement pre‑ and post‑outcome measures.
- Build professional relationships and respect clients’ views, autonomy and culture.
- Engage with clients calmly, sensitively and empathetically in distressing circumstances.
- Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Attend clinical supervision regularly with a qualified psychology professional.
- Maintain good time‑management, punctuality, reliable attendance and organisational skills.
Key Requirements
- PG Cert or Cert Grad in Mental Health Wellbeing Practice.
- At least one year’s experience post‑qualification.
- Experience delivering low‑intensity psychologically informed work using CBT principles to those with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- Experience working well within a multidisciplinary NHS team.
- Experience delivering goal‑focused, short‑term, time‑limited work.
- Experience promoting wellbeing and social inclusion.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusting relationships with colleagues, partner agencies and service users.
- Good understanding of mental health issues and ability to formulate psychologically around these.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, tailored to a variety of audiences.
- Ability to work independently and think quickly in challenging situations.
- Creativity to solve problems and tackle obstacles in new ways.
- Effective time‑management skills to juggle competing demands in a busy environment.
- Successful candidates are normally appointed to the bottom of the pay scale unless previous NHS experience is evidence.
Benefits
Enjoy an NHS pension, generous holiday entitlement, NHS discount schemes and access to the Employee Assistance Programme.
Career Development
Engage in professional supervision, ongoing training and opportunities for CPD and career growth within our Trust. We support flexible working arrangements and tailored schedules.
Safeguarding
We take safeguarding responsibilities very seriously. All staff are required to complete relevant safeguarding training for their role.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, ensuring everyone can belong and thrive in their career with us.
#J-18808-Ljbffr…