West Sussex Professional Lead for Psychological Professionals

As a senior professional leader, you will bring substantial clinical and professional leadership experience and the confidence to advise on complex, sensitive or contested matters. You will influence at a strategic level and support evidence-informed change across organisational boundaries. This may include contributing to complex case reviews, specialist placement or risk panels, patient safety learning responses, and discussions with commissioners, senior managers, clinical colleagues and partner agencies. You will provide authoritative psychological leadership in older peoples mental health and dementia care, maintain credibility across the wider adult pathway and hold a specialist clinical caseload relevant to your professional background and expertise. Provide strategic and professional leadership for psychological professions across West Sussex Adult and Older Peoples Mental Health Services, together with Trust-wide strategic leadership for psychological professions practice in older peoples mental health and dementia care. Work as part of the divisional leadership team and with senior professional leads for nursing, allied health professions and medicine to support safe, effective and sustainable services, bringing a clear psychological voice to business planning, transformation, service development and partnership working. Lead professional governance for psychological professions across West Sussex adult and older peoples services, including supervision, appraisal, continuing professional development, job planning and standards of professional practice. Provide senior professional advice on governance and support consistent standards in older peoples mental health and dementia care across the Trust. Support robust supervision, reflective practice and psychologically safe systems that promote compassionate, trauma-informed and inclusive care for both service users and staff. Shape service and policy developments that strengthen psychological and psychologically informed care across adult and older peoples community, acute and specialist pathways, including prevention, early intervention, transitions, support for carers and partnership working with primary care, social care, commissioners and voluntary and community organisations. Lead workforce planning, inclusive recruitment and professional development to build a skilled, sustainable and diverse psychological professions workforce aligned with transformation programmes and future service needs. Champion inclusive and culturally sensitive psychological practice by embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in supervision, service development, clinical practice and divisional action planning. Foster staff and team wellbeing through clear role expectations, wellbeing conversations, peer support, communities of practice and opportunities for psychological professionals to connect across services. Provide expert consultation and advice to multidisciplinary colleagues, senior leaders, commissioners and partner agencies on complex psychological care, formulation, risk, service design and professional practice across adult and older peoples services, with particular leadership in older peoples mental health and dementia care. Lead and contribute to audit, research, teaching, training, service evaluation and routine outcome measurement, using evidence, psychological theory and high-quality data to inform continuous improvement and innovation. Hold a specialist clinical caseload and maintain advanced clinical credibility within your area of psychological practice.