Job summary

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact?Were looking for aClinical or Counselling Psychologist, registered with the HCPC, to join our compassionate and forward-thinking team at the Brighton & Hove Substance Misuse Service.

Whether you're newly qualified or bring years of experience, this is an opportunity to use your clinical expertise and creativity to support people on their recovery journey.

Preceptorship opportunity:We welcome applications from trainee psychologists due to qualify in 2025. A preceptorship pathway is available for those not yet meeting the criteria for a Highly Specialist role, with a clear development plan and support to progress within 18 months to 3 years.

Main duties of the job

About the role:

Youll be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering trauma-informed, recovery-focused psychological care to individuals who use substances.
Many of the people we support experienceco-occurring mental health challenges and neurodiversity, and your role will be key in helping the team understand and respond to this complexity with compassion and skill.
Working under the supervision of a Consultant Psychologist, youll provide comprehensive assessments, formulations, and evidence-based interventions.
Youll support the delivery ofevidence-based psychological group interventions, with a focus onthird-wave CBT approachessuch asACT, DBT, CFT, and mindfulness.
Youll contribute tostaff training and wellbeing initiatives, and play a key role inservice development, research, and audit projectsaligned with CGLs national Research and Development Strategy.
Youll be instrumental in shaping a service that is inclusive, innovative and responsive; grounded in a culture of continuous quality improvement and evidence-based practice.
Our model prioritises physical, psychological, and emotional safety, helping people regain control and empowerment in their lives and communities.
Youll also contribute tosystemic change, helping embed psychological thinking across the organisation through consultation, team formulation, reflective practice, and training.

About us

Leadership

Provide clinical leadership; supporting your own services development to deliver psychology, psychosocial therapy and talking therapies

Provide clinical leadership and supervision within the sphere of your professional expertise

Provide evidence-based and evidence-informed interventions with due regard to issues of equality, diversity and inclusion

Actively promote integrated health/care professional working internally and externally

Deliver regular monthly reflective practice, team formulations and other psychologically informed approaches

Support delivery and understanding of an effective, trauma-informed psychology provision within your service

Lead the more junior psychological professionals within your service

Provide clinical supervision and consultation to assistant psychologists and counsellors as appropriate

Clinical & Clinical Supervision

Provide consultation, training and clinical supervision to support the provision of psychologically-based interventions

Provide highly specialist, psychological assessment and formulation for the people who use our services

Promote and contribute to multidisciplinary assessments

Provide highly specialist interventions

Receive regular clinical supervision

Lead provision to ensure that interventions provided are trauma informed

Research & Development

Contribute to and support colleagues

Use specialist knowledge of research methods to initiate and support research, service evaluation and audit, to improve services

Details

Date posted

02 September 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£45,585.72 to £51,101.95 a year Pro Rata & Depending on Experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

U0080-17466

Job locations

Richmond House

Richmond Road

Brighton

BN2 3RL

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role provides an exciting progression opportunity for HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologists who are seeking to develop their skills within a formal and supported preceptorship, with ongoing opportunities for professional development. Having qualified you will be supported to complete our preceptorship programme over a period of approximately two years. Upon successful completion there will be an opportunity for you to progress within your role, with an ongoing Highly Qualified Practitioner Psychologist opportunity.

We are looking for a qualified Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist to ensure the delivery of high quality, accessible and inclusive psychological services. Under the supervision of a senior psychologist, you will offer and support the delivery of a range of evidence-based psychological and psychosocial interventions relevant to the people we serve.

You will receive regular clinical supervision from a senior Psychologist. Our national Psychology Team provides connection, peer support, reflective practice and CPD.

You will need an appreciation of Change Grow Lives values, the people who use our services and how everyone within our diverse team can make a difference. If you can bring with you qualities such as emotional intelligence, openness to new ideas and ways of working, flexibility, patience, compassion and the ability to work with individuals and teams this will be of huge benefit.

We want all of our services to be Psychologically Informed. We support people experiencing difficulties associated with a range of challenges, most frequently including drug and alcohol use. We want to define clearly how we will focus our Psychology resources to support equity and assure quality and delivery of evidence-based interventions as outlined in Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management 2017.

Across your area you will work as part of multidisciplinary teams and your focus will be the excellent delivery of recommended specialised interventions. These form the primary Job Plan for all Psychology positions as they are clearly identified as contributing to supporting recovery.

Primary Functions:

Plan, develop and implement localised:

Contingency management initiatives in local services, aligned to evidence-based practice.

Social behaviour network therapy (SBNT) interventions embedded within the available range of psychosocial Interventions.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and motivational enhancement techniques, engaging in direct delivery of these interventions i.e. Assessing and then offering 6 sessions of CBT on cycle to people for whom this is indicated.

Behavioural couples therapy (BCT) and trauma-focused interventions for co-occurring disorders. i.e. Assessing and then offering 6 sessions on cycle to people for whom this is indicated.

Support the implementation of localised approaches using Motivational Interviewing (MI, providing appropriate support and supervision to practitioners and connecting to associated national teams.

Explore and implement localised third-wave CBT approaches, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and mindfulness-based relapse prevention.

Support localised trauma-informed care approaches, embedding associated practice within the local team.

Develop and establish mechanisms to measure outcomes, undertake fidelity checks, and evaluate the effectiveness of the above interventions.

Develop and establish mechanisms to support equity of access to the above specialised interventions.

Clinical Supervision:

Offer formal group clinical supervision to service staff on a monthly or bi-monthly basis.

Support broader staff teams in adopting psychologically informed practices.

Support the development of quality benchmarks for continuous professional development strategies.

Collaboration within MDT:

Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated care and holistic support.

Participate in regular communication and case review meetings to adjust treatment approaches.

Support emergent MDT development.

Through consultancy, clinical supervision, training, and clinical case management, you will help to create innovative and effective service that adheres to best practice guidelines and delivery of high-quality care including drug and alcohol use. We want to define clearly how we will focus our Psychology resources to support equity and assure quality and delivery of evidence-based interventions as outlined in Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management 2017.

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