About this role
Job summary
Are you an experienced Practitioner Psychologist looking for a specialist role where you can make a meaningful difference to people living with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia? Join our Clinical Health Psychology Service and bring the full range of your clinical, consultation and leadership skills to a supportive multidisciplinary team.
This is a Band 8a, part-time post at 0.6 WTE (22.5 hours per week) within the Sandwell and West Birmingham Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Service. Based at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), you will work as a key member of the Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The role
You will provide specialist one-to-one psychological assessment and intervention, facilitate group work for patients referred by the team, and help embed psychologically informed care across the service. You will also offer teaching, training, supervision and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, enabling them to recognise and respond effectively to psychological needs and incorporate psychological principles into their practice.
Our aim is to reduce psychological distress, improve quality of life and patient experience, and enhance wellbeing for people living with physical health conditions. We work within a stepped-care model informed by clinical guidance: Clinical Health Psychology provides direct intervention for people with the most complex needs while supporting the wider team to respond to lower-level distress through teaching, training, supervision and consultation.
About us
What we offer
You will receive specialist professional support and supervision from the Principal Clinical Psychologist leading this area, alongside peer support from the wider Clinical Health Psychology team. The team includes Clinical, Counselling and Health Psychologists working across Dudley, Sandwell and Wolverhampton with people experiencing a wide range of physical health conditions. As part of Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will also join a broad community of psychological professionals working across Adult Mental Health, Older Adults, Learning Disabilities and Children's Services. You will benefit from a strong professional structure, varied development opportunities and access to the Trust's fully funded CPD package for psychological professionals.
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.
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
Midland Metropolitan University Hospital
Grove Lane
Birmingham
B66 2QT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)