Clinical Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Are you a Practitioner Psychologist with a clinical or forensic background and a passion for working with children and young people who have experienced early adversity and have complex mental health difficulties?

Are you motivated by a role where you can make a huge difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable individuals in the community?

If so, our Practitioner Psychologist position at Lansdowne Children’s Home in Hailsham, East Sussex may be just the role for you!

Lansdowne Secure Children’s Home is a 12 bedded social care provision for young people aged 12-17. The young people have complex needs and are described as ‘high need/high vulnerability/high risk’.

The health team’s focus is informed by the Framework for Integrated Care (also known as SECURE STAIRS). This aims to support trauma-informed care and formulation-driven, evidence-based, whole-systems approaches to creating change for young people within the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate (CYPSE).

Main duties of the job

You will be joining our Integrated Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service (IHEWS) at Lansdowne Secure Children’s Home in Hailsham, East Sussex. We are a small and welcoming multi-disciplinary health team whose role is to support both the young people and the residential staff within the centre.

Your main duties will involve being responsible for the assessment of, and some therapy with, the young person; consultation to, and support and training of, the care and education staff group; including supervision of other Psychological Professional staff when applicable (e.g., Assistant Psychologist and Trainee Psychologist). You will work closely with the wider multi-disciplinary health team and will receive supervision from a Principal Practitioner Psychologist within SPFT CAMHS.

As part of your recruitment to the post we would include discussion around supporting attendance in training in Level 1 Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).

This is a 30 hours per week role working days will ideally include Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Discussion will take place on appointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• *For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
• Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
• Demonstrate specialist experience gained postqualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours).
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical 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 teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
• Experience or demonstrable knowledge of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
• Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Closing Date: 30 November 2026