Band 7-8a Practitioner Psychologist - Preceptorship

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Preceptorship programme

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for Band 7-8a Practitioner Psychologists under a Preceptorship development programme. This post offers career progression and a supportive pathway for newly or recently qualified psychologists.

We welcome Band 7 and Band 8a applicants to deliver clinical services in the neurodevelopmental pathway within the Children and Families Division. The role emphasises compassionate, inclusive practice and staff wellbeing across our

Qualifications

• Post graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology.
• HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Pre-qualification training in research methodology or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Deliver neurodevelopmental assessments citywide with multidisciplinary teams.
• Provide consultation to professionals within and outside the NHS.
• Support staff wellbeing and advocate inclusive practice within the team.
• Potential to develop special interests within inclusion services, 0-19 provision and palliative care.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Doctoral training in Psychology

Tools

ADOS

Job description

Band 7-8a Practitioner Psychologist - Preceptorship

We have exciting opportunities for eithernewly or recently qualified Band 7 Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists looking for a post with potential career progression to join our team under a Preceptorship development programme. We would also welcome applications from Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists. Based on relevant experience, these posts can be offered at a Band 8a or band 7 Preceptorship arrangement.

We are looking for creative, innovative and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling/ Forensic Psychologists to deliver clinical services within our neurodevelopmental pathway, Children and Families Division. We are a specialist multi-disciplinary team and if you are passionate about developing services and delivering high quality input to neurodiverse people then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Providing clinical services citywide, you will work with the multidisciplinary team to deliver specialist psychological neurodevelopmental assessments for individuals, groups and families as well as consultation to other professionals. You will have opportunities to develop a special interest in other parts of our division for example, within inclusion services, 0-19 provision and palliative care. We pride ourselves on our compassionate and inclusive ways of working with a strong agenda around equality and diversity at work and have a focus on staff wellbeing, both for ourselves as a psychology team, but also for our colleagues, clients and staff teams that we work with.

About us

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

Skills

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment (including psychometrics such as ADOS), intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Knowledge of typical and atypical child development including neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD/ASD
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, children with additional learning disabilities or difficulties etc).
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

Personal Qualities

• Self-motivated.
• Positive, energetic, enthusiastic in outlook and able to set a good example
• Ability to manage under pressure; work to tight deadlines, evidencing excellent time management
• Able to work independently or as part of a team.

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.

£49,387 to £64,750 a yearper annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Reference number

820-8192375-CF-A

Job locations

City Wide Post