Psychological Therapist 
Marine Court, Littlehampton, West Sussex

30 hours per week
£30,894.40 per annum (actual salary)

Working Pattern: Tuesday to Friday 8.30 - 4.30. Wednesday and Thursday in office, (option to work from home or in office Tuesday and Fridays) 

About Us
The Fire Fighters Charity offers specialist, lifelong support for members of the UK fire services community, empowering individuals to achieve mental, physical, and social wellbeing throughout their lives.  The Charity offers a broad range of services tailored to meet individual needs.

We are looking to appoint a Psychological Therapist to work collaboratively with our multi-professional team at our Marine Court site to deliver our residential programmes providing therapeutic intervention and education to groups and individuals, both in person and digitally. 

The Benefits
We pride ourselves on ensuring you have great employee benefits along with a caring and supportive working environment as an employee of the Charity.

• Pension: 8% pension contributions (All pension contributions are paid by the Charity on your behalf. No employee contribution is required)
• Optional salary sacrifice pension contribution scheme
• Paid Annual leave: 25 days’ holiday rising to 27 plus Bank Holidays (prorated)
• Life assurance: 3 x basic salary
• Access to wellbeing support tools
   

The Role
As a Psychological Therapist, you will be tasked with providing exceptional short-term psychological support to members of the fire and rescue community.

Working via online and telephone interventions and centre-based activities, you will form part of our incredible multi-professional team to ensure our service users get the right support, delivered in the right way and at the right time. 

You will provide group and 1:1 support to improve psychological health and wellbeing. You will also work digitally to triage risk, assess need and identify treatment plans for service users accessing mental health services.   

You will be one of two Psychological Therapists in the services team based at Marine Court, and be a member of the wider Psychological Services team across the Charity. 

About You
To be considered as a Psychological Therapist, you will need:

A recognised qualification in psychology (clinical, counselling or health psychology), counselling or psychotherapy

• To be a registered member of an appropriate professional body (psychological, counselling or psychotherapy)
• Evidence of current continuing professional development appropriate to the role
• To be an integrative practitioner with experience of working within the mental health field
• Successful experience of utilising a range of evidence-based brief interventions to meet different needs, irrespective of individual therapeutic orientation
• Experience working in a multi-professional team delivering holistic interventions, alongside physical health and social welfare practitioners
• Experience of conducting telephone assessments and risk assessments
• Experience of delivering individual and group interventions aimed at improving psychological wellbeing
• The demonstrable ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels both verbally and in writing, together with sound judgment skills
• To be IT competent, able to use standard Microsoft packages and Customer Relationship Management / electronic recordkeeping systems
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your workload
• The ability to work unsupervised as well as part of a multi-professional team
   

Please note
An Enhanced DBS check will be required prior to commencing your role. This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services Check. The Charity is an Equal Opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. When recruiting our new team members, regardless of the role, we are looking for people who share our values.

This is role is at least 2 days a week Centre based. There may be some requirement for occasional travel for training or wider team meetings. 

Closing Date 24 February 2025 - midday. 

We reserve the right to close this role early should we receive a sufficient number of applications. Due to the number of applications we receive, we are unable to contact applicants who are not shortlisted for interview. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application was not successful this time.