About this role
Job summary
Are you?
Creative, reflective, and emotionally resilient Passionate about working with people with complex presentations Interested in mental health, personality difficulties, trauma, and risk Able to work collaboratively while constructively challenging systems Compassionate, authentic, and relationship-focused If you are, then we invite you to apply for a permanent role within our Secure Care and Offender Health Services at Reaside Clinic -- a 92-bed medium secure inpatient service supporting adult men experiencing severe and complex mental health difficulties, often alongside histories of violence and offending behaviour.
At Reaside Clinic, you will become part of a highly supportive and expanding Psychological Therapies team made up of: Practitioner Psychologists, Arts Psychotherapists, Specialist Psychological Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists. You will work within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment where psychological thinking is central to care, recovery, and service development.
Main duties of the job
This role is a leadership position within an existing 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 service 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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If you are interested in any of the 8b posts within SCOH then you do not need to apply separately for roles and that a full time job split between the roles can be considered.
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)