Job Title: Senior Psychological Therapist
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
Salary Range: £68,437.82 to £76,236.77
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Advert Closing Date: 25/09/2025
Job Overview
We’re recruiting a senior psychological therapist to join our inpatient older adult mental health service in Jersey. You’ll work across two wards – one supporting people with dementia, the other focused on acute functional mental health needs.
About the role:
You’ll work alongside a clinical psychologist and assistant psychologist on the working age ward as part of a small but active inpatient psychology team. You’ll take a lead role in delivering psychological input across the inpatient pathway, supporting people through admission, treatment and discharge.
You’ll also:
- Deliver assessments, psychological formulations, and evidence-based interventions
- Lead on formulation meetings and MDT care planning
- Run reflective practice groups for inpatient staff
- Provide consultation and supervision to other professionals
- Work closely with community teams to support continuity of care
- Contribute to service development and quality improvement
You’ll need to have:
- A recognised qualification and HCPC/BABCP/UKCP registration
- Experience working in adult or older adult mental health
- Skills in psychological formulation, trauma-informed care, and managing risk
- Experience delivering reflective practice and psychologically-informed staff support
- Confidence working across professional boundaries and services
Why Jersey?
Jersey offers the benefits of a small, integrated system where psychological therapies are valued. You’ll have the time and support to deliver thoughtful, relational care. We offer regular supervision, CPD, and opportunities for service development. Living in Jersey also comes with short commutes, access to nature, and a good work-life balance.
Job Purpose
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Attributes and Behaviours
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
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