About this role
Job summary
Join Our Psychological Therapies Team at Reaside Clinic
Are you
Creative, reflective and resilient
Passionate about supporting people with complex needs
Interested in mental health, trauma, personality difficulties and risk
Collaborative and able to challenge systems constructively
Compassionate, authentic and relationship-focused
If so, apply for this permanent role at Reaside Clinic, part of Secure Care and Offender Health Services (SCOH), a 92-bed medium secure service supports adult men with severe, complex mental health needs and histories of violence or offending.
We seek enthusiastic, resilient and compassionate professionals who want to make a difference in forensic mental health and develop their careers.
You will join a supportive, growing Psychological Therapies team of Practitioner Psychologists, Arts Psychotherapists, Specialist Psychological Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver formulation-led interventions, shape recovery pathways and strategy, support innovation, and build specialist forensic expertise.
Main duties of the job
This is not just a clinical role. This is a leadership position within an existing and developing team. It combines a combination of opportunities to influence, lead and contribute to service development initiatives, help integrate develop psychologically informed systems and cultures across services provide supervision and line management, support research, audit, training, and evaluation projects , and develop professional growth in yourself and others.
We recognise that working in secure care can be both rewarding and challenging. You will be supported by experienced colleagues and strong multi-model supervision structures designed to support your professional development and wellbeing.
We are also committed to helping staff identify and develop their own professional interests -- your "shiny thing" -- aligning your growth with both your aspirations and service needs.
We actively value diverse backgrounds and perspectives that can bring fresh thinking to our evolving services.
We are committed to continuous professional development and offer:
Excellent supervision structures
Opportunities for leadership development
Access to research and innovation projects
Supportive multidisciplinary working
Career progression opportunities across SCOH services
If you are ready for the next stage in your career and want to contribute to meaningful, psychologically informed care within a supportive and ambitious team, we would love to hear from you.
About us
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology (the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), the completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- The Graduate Basis for Registration (further to completion of an honours degree in psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society, or, in the case of courses that are not accredited or where the first degree is not in psychology, by completion of the Society's Qualifying examination, or completion of a Society accredited Conversion Course).
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more highly specialist areas of psychological practice / therapy.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a registered practitioner psychologist for a minimum of 4 years post qualification, with a minimum of at least 2 years at the Senior (highly specialist) level.
- Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
- Relevant post-qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise clinical psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Clinical Psychology Training Course criteria
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical forensic psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' and or 'hard to reach' groups and clients.
- Experience of safeguarding and risk management across several agencies, including appropriately escalating concerns
Skills
Essential
- Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups
- Highly developed skills, commensurate with doctoral level training and post qualification training and experience, in the formulation of highly complex problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with highly complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.
Desirable
- In depth knowledge of information governance legislation and information sharing practices across agencies
Personal
Essential
- Is a 'team player' and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
- Capacity for tolerating frustration, change and high levels of demand with an ability to work effectively under pressure.
Other
Essential
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
- Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice
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
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Reaside Clinic
Birmingham Great Park
Birmingham
B45 9BE
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)