Senior Psychologist

Do you thrive on team working and providing collaborative complex formulations and consultation? Would you like to use these to help improve the wellbeing and recovery of individuals who are in the Criminal Justice System? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to join our established Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Service as maternity cover to the Eastbourne and Hastings Probation offices.

The OPD Community Pathways Partnership provides consultation and training to probation staff working with high risk individuals who are screened into the pathway due to identification of personality difficulties or traits.

The wider core OPD pathway provides a 'wrap around' service for people on probation with a wide range of psychological difficulties. It anticipates that pathways for this client group are non-linear, complex and often challenging. The model strives to provide consistency in the form of robust relational engagement between the Person on Probation and the probation officers (known as Community Offender Manager, COMs).

You will have extensive experience in working with individuals with personality difficulties, provision of training and in offering supervision/consultation to health and/or criminal justice staff.

Your role is to support the COM with the range of skills and additional knowledge to help manage the challenges of the client group with complex personality presentations. These include providing collaborative consultation and formulation, completed between you, the COM and where applicable, the Person on Probation. You will provide monthly training to the probation team on a variety of aspects of personality difficulties, discuss challenging case presentations and assist staff to reflect on the impact of working with this group of people.

At Sussex Partnership we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to as advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.

If you haven't thought about living in Sussex before then you should consider the following:

o Journey from the coast to the countryside in minutes

o Enjoy a lifestyle where there are renowned cycle routes and picturesque walks, including the famous South Downs Way in the South Downs National Park!

o Embrace taking time to discover all the miles of scenic coastline, including Hastings, Bexhill on Sea and Eastbourne

o Easy access to airports - Gatwick and Heathrow are both within 90 minutes of the county, providing links to Europe and beyond

o Brighton and Hove or London are within easy reach via local and national bus routes and national mainline stations

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.