Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a full-time IAPT Clinical Lead to work within the IAPT part of our service. Our IAPT service is undergoing an expansion of its workforce and there are significant opportunities for audit and service development.

The Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service is an NHS service for all ages in Brighton and Hove. The service is delivered by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with YMCA Downlink Group, and Southdown. The service offers a variety of support and psychological therapies to the community of Brighton and Hove. Our interventions are diverse and evidence based, ranging from guided self-help and face-to-face or telephone support to workshop courses.

We know that we can only achieve a high-quality clinical service by maximising the efforts of our team and by creating an environment where colleagues are valued and involved in developing the service. We believe in investing in people, keeping true to the values and behaviours of Sussex Partnership and the NHS and looking after the wellbeing of all team members. We work closely with our Adult Service-User steering group to refine and improve the service that we offer.

Main duties of the job

The post is full-time, and there will be a requirement to work across different sites used by the service throughout Brighton and Hove.

The post-holder will join a supportive and friendly senior leadership team which includes the Clinical Lead and General Manager for the Brighton Wellbeing Service, as well as Service Managers and other clinical lead roles. The wider multi-disciplinary team includes admin and data management staff, Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, CBT Therapists, and Counsellors.

The post-holder will provide clinical leadership and will be responsible for the clinical governance of the IAPT service. This will require the successful candidate to work very closely with our IAPT Service Manager, together providing integrated leadership to the IAPT service. You will need to work effectively as a clinical leader within a primary care multidisciplinary setting. You will need to hold self and colleagues to account to ensure the IAPT service delivers safe, effective and timely clinical care in line with the IAPT manual, while also meeting its agreed performance targets.

We are looking for an experienced clinician who has had substantial experience of working and providing leadership within IAPT services. You will need to be qualified either as a Counselling or Clinical Psychologist or as a CBT Therapist, and to hold current accreditation with BABCP.

Working for our organisation

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. We can offer you:

• The opportunity to work in a new and exciting collaboration and to help us forge our path
• Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes, run by our internal wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development
• All the autonomy and responsibility you need to manage your caseload
• Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For detailed information on the Job Description and Person Specification please see attached documents,

If you want to join an innovative and exciting IAPT service in the vibrant and diverse seaside City of Brighton & Hove, then we would love to hear from you!

To find out more about the service and this post please contact Stuart Clark, Clinical Lead (stuart.clark8@nhs.net).

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• An approved post graduate / Masters level qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, leading to professional accreditation with BABCP
• A Masters / Doctoral level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology leading to professional registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Qualification in a core mental health discipline (e.g. Social Work, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Arts Therapies) together with extensive post qualification experience in first discipline.
• Professionally registered as an accredited Cognitive Behavioural therapist with BABCP
• Evidence of relevant continuing professional development as required by the registration body
• Evidence of post-qualification training in clinical supervision

Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of specified psychological therapy
• Extensive and up to date knowledge of IAPT therapies and IAPT service delivery principles
• Significant experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care +settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by relevant registration body
• Formal training in supervision
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision within an IAPT setting
• Experience of representing specified psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings relevant to their needs and age
• Substantial post qualification experience of working as a psychological therapist with primary care populations, including in IAPT services
• Experience of using IAPT therapies as a treatment for people with long term medical conditions and medically unexplained symptoms

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.