About this role
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Practitioner (Clinical, Counselling or Health) Psychologist to join our Clinical Health Psychology Service. This is a part time (0.6WTE or 22.5 hours), 8a role, in a specialist service for Behets Disease. The post holder will be based at City Hospital in Birmingham, with the MDT, in the Behets Centre of Excellence. The Birmingham Centre of Excellence is one of three Specialist Centres in England, supporting patients with this rare condition. The wider MDT place a high value on having a Psychologist as part of their team and as the post is well established, the team are always keen to ensure that the care they deliver is grounded in the principals of good psychological care. The team are research active and so there are opportunities to engage in research, as well as teaching, training, consultation and supervision.
Main duties of the job
The post is also part of the wider Clinical Health Psychology team, within Black Country Healthcare NHS Trust. The aim of our service is to decrease psychological distress, support engagement in treatment and rehab, improve quality of life and enhance wellbeing in those who have a physical health condition, supporting people to live well, alongside their condition. The service offers psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to patients from a variety of medical specialities. The service also offers teaching, training and consultancy to staff from these multi-disciplinary teams to enable them to manage psychological issues with their patients and incorporate psychological principles into their own practice.
We use stepped or matched care models based on clinical guidance, with physical health psychology offering direct work with the most complex patients and supporting the team to work with lower-level distress via teaching and training, supervision and consultation.
There is good professional support and supervision in place, from a Principal Clinical Psychologist and also from the wider Clinical Health Psychology Team.
The Clinical Health Psychology team comprises a large group of Clinical, Counselling and Health Psychologists working across Dudley, Sandwell and Wolverhampton with a wide range of physical health conditions. There are good opportunities for peer support and development.
About us
BCHFT employs a very large number of Psychological Professionals across, Adult Mental Health, Older Adults, Learning Disabilities and Children's Services. So, there is an excellent structure of professional support and opportunities for development. The Trust has recently invested in a fully funded CPD package for Psychological Professionals that would be available to the successful applicant.
Job description Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex mental health or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours.
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 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.
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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 Midland Metropolitan University Hospital
Grove Lane
Birmingham
B66 2QT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)