Senior Psychological Therapist: CBT Informed

Are you a qualified and experienced Cognitive Behavioural psychological therapist? Would you like to be part of the expansion of Mental Health Support Teams in West Sussex as we move towards 100% coverage of children and young people by 2029? Are you passionate about supporting children and young people? Do you enjoy supervising, training, and mentoring others? West Sussex County Councils Mental Health Support Team, known locally as Thought-Full, have a new opportunity to join us as a Senior Psychological Therapist. As a Senior Psychological Therapist, you will be an accountable lead clinician within a multidisciplinary team, providing clinical leadership alongside two other Senior Psychological Therapists. You will supervise Senior Mental Health Practitioners, advising and supporting the team through consultation, supervision, training, and education. This includes leadership and management of psychological practitioners such as low intensity practitioners and trainee and qualified psychological therapists., The key responsibilities and tasks for a Senior Psychological Therapist include, but are not limited to: Clinical

• Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options, using analytical and judgement skills for clinical management.
• Contributing to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care, using theoretical and therapeutic models.
• Promoting user and carer involvement in care planning.
Management, Leadership, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
• Working within professional guidelines, advising on policy, and contributing to service development.
Research and Service Evaluation
• Researching, evaluating, and using evidence-based practice to undertake project management and development of service provision.
Teaching, Training, and Supervision
• Clinically supervising trainee and qualified psychological therapists.
• Developing skills, delivering training, and ensuring trainees acquire the necessary skills to fulfil their roles.
General duties
• Continued professional registration, complying with Continuous Professional Development.
• Contributing to the development of an open learning culture.
• Record keeping and maintaining up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local polices, procedures, HR policies, therapeutic modality, and mental health & wellbeing., Delivering evidence-based interventions in education settings (primary and secondary schools and colleges) for mild to moderate mental health issues.
• Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
• Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
  
  Our Mental Health Support Team is made up of over 70 professionals, and we are continuing to increase our services to support the growing needs of our communities in West Sussex. You will be working within our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) on exciting new initiatives and an important strand of the Governments 2017 Green Paper Transforming Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Provision, and as part of the Government ambition to achieve 100% coverage of MHSTs by 2029/30.