About this role
Job summary
This post is based within the Stroke and Neuro Rehabilitation Service, working with individuals with long term neurological conditions, acquired brain injury, stroke, and chronic fatigue syndrome. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring psychological thinking and formulation are embedded across the multidisciplinary service. You will provide highly specialised psychological assessment, intervention, and consultation for individuals referred to the service, while working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues.
As a Principal Psychologist, you will provide professional leadership, clinical supervision, and support to applied psychologists within the Clinical Health Psychology Service. The role includes leadership of a small team of Senior Clinical Psychologists and contributing to the continued development of high-quality psychological provision across the pathway.
We are seeking a motivated, dynamic, and compassionate clinician with strong communication and collaborative working skills, alongside the creativity and flexibility to apply psychological approaches within complex physical health settings.
Applicants should have substantial experience of working in physical health services and demonstrate a strong understanding of the psychological needs associated with neurological conditions and rehabilitation, alongside knowledge of relevant models of psychological care.
Main duties of the job
Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex and contentious conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources, which may include neuropsychological testing.
1.2. Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
1.3. Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high physical risks inherent in the client group.
1.4. Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients' mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
1.5. Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
1.6. Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and makes decisions about treatment options.
About us
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the 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 coping with complex health challenges. The service currently operates across Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Sandwell & West Birmingham, delivering a range of specialist contracts across the Black Country.
Job description Job responsibilities
Clinical supervision of Trainee Applied Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists
2.2. Supervises Band 7 and 8a Applied Psychologists
2.3. Specialist psychological supervision and scaffolding in a care pathway/cluster
2.4. Line manage Assistant Psychologists
2.5. Will hold responsibility and accountability for their own actions, ensuring appropriate support and supervision is sought when required.
2.6. To keep abreast of current developments in this field through reading, attendance at appropriate training courses, and a range of other CPD activities, and to ensure that a log is kept of this in line with HCPC requirements.
2.7. To contribute, as appropriate, to the teaching offered on the local Applied Psychology training courses.
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 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 Health Centre
Cross Street
Dudley
DY1 1RN
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)