About this role
Job summary
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our friendly, innovative, and highly valued Clinical Health Psychology Service within Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Our Clinical Health Psychology Service supports individuals in adapting to and managing the psychological impact of physical health conditions, helping people develop meaningful and creative ways of living well alongside illness. The service currently operates across Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Sandwell & West Birmingham, delivering a range of specialist services across the Black Country.
This post is based within the Dudley Cancer Service and offers an excellent opportunity to work as part of a compassionate and psychologically informed multidisciplinary cancer pathway. The successful applicant will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and therapeutic interventions for people affected by cancer, as well as support for families and carers where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
The service works closely with the cancer MDTs, supporting patients throughout all stages of their cancer journey. Psychology is highly valued within the cancer multidisciplinary teams, with psychologists contributing through regular MDT attendance, consultation, reflective practice, clinical supervision, staff support, and training.
As a Principal Psychologist, you will play an important role in shaping and developing psychologically informed cancer care pathways across the service, contributing to strategic service development, innovation, and the continued integration of psychology within multidisciplinary physical healthcare services.
The role will include providing clinical leadership, supervision, consultation, and support to other psychological professionals, alongside contributing to the wider leadership and development of the Clinical Health Psychology Service. You will work alongside other Principal Psychologists and applied psychologists, with support from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist within a well-established leadership, supervision, and operational management structure.
About us
The post holder will benefit from joining a supportive and enthusiastic team of practitioner psychologists and psychological professionals who utilise a wide range of therapeutic approaches.
What Our Staff Say About Working in the Clinical Health Psychology Service
"The psychology team provided a number of opportunities for broadening experiences, and the roles are varied in nature. For example, there are opportunities to provide supervision, training, reflective practice, team development and individual client work."
"Thank you for helping me grow - I wouldn't be the psychologist I am today."
"My experiences enabled me to develop skills in consultation, which in turn helped me support the development of psychological thinking within the team, across trust-wide discussions, and broader clinical decision-making forums."
This is an excellent opportunity to join a thriving and expanding service that places high value on innovation, staff wellbeing, and compassionate multidisciplinary care.
Job description Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex and contentious mental health conditions or learning disabilities which include challenging behaviours and possible risk of physical aggression.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
In line with the banding of the post and its service context to:
Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists
Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development
Provide leadership in service audit and development
Provide leadership in service evaluation and research
Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications Essential
Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. HCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
Experience Essential
Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Cross Street Healthcentre
Cross Street
Dudley
DY1 1RN
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)