Consultant Practitioner Psychologist and Professional Lead in North Chailey inNorth Chailey PUBLISHED FRI 18 APR 2025 Jump to job information section

Consultant Practitioner Psychologist and Professional

Lead for Chailey Paediatric Neuropsychology Service

This post offers a fantastic opportunity for a highly experienced clinical psychologist to provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to the Psychology Therapy team working at Chailey Clinical Services.

We offer a highly specialist psychology-led service for children and young people with perinatal and acquired brain injury, structural brain abnormality and complex physical neurodisability. This includes unidisciplinary working, providing psychological assessment and intervention to children and young adults (0-19 years old) in an outpatient setting, as well as multidisciplinary working with an outpatient paediatric neurorehabilitation team and with teaching and other healthcare staff who serve Chailey Heritage Foundation, a specialist day and residential school for children and young people with profound and complex neurodisability.

Chailey Clinical Services have a commitment to provide outstanding services to children and young people with complex neuro-disabilities. You will be an expert resource and provide advanced level of clinical expertise to professionals and families within Chailey Clinical Services and SCFT.

Great communication, curiosity and a passion for leading excellent services are central to this job role. If you are interested, we would love to hear from you.

• Work autonomously as a clinician within the Chailey Clinical Services neuropsychology service, providing psychological assessment and treatment to patients and families with neurodevelopmental and psychological difficulties arising from factors associated with their brain injury and/or complex disability, and the emotional, social, behavioural and health needs that accompany these.
• Formulate and devise psychological treatment plans based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of a client’s problems, employing methods based upon evidence of effectiveness across the full range of care settings.
• Provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professional colleagues to assist them in formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
• Provide specialist neuropsychology input into the MDT, including with regards to wider service development, in communication with senior leadership and management colleagues.
• Utilise acquired research skills for audit and service development and contribute to research and development activity, inspiring and supporting other team members to do the same.
  
  

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• EMBRACE, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+ and Religion Spirituality and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Georgina Hughes Job title: AHP Head of Services Email address: Telephone number:

Dr Amobi, Medical Lead