Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Reaside Clinic

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health organization in Birmingham seeks an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join their Secure Care and Offender Health Services. The role involves delivering psychological treatment and contributing to the Divisional Psychological Therapies strategy while working with a multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate will be clinically trained and have substantial experience in handling complex psychological cases. Opportunities for research and development are also included in this position. Competitive remuneration and professional development are offered.

Qualifications

• Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology.
• Experience in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective.

Responsibilities

• Input into a multi-disciplinary clinical team for psychological treatment.
• Deliver clinical interventions aligned with Trust objectives.
• Contribute to the Divisional Psychological Therapies strategy.

Skills

Consultation skills

Complex problem formulation

Specialist psychological therapies

Education

Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training in clinical psychology

Job description

Overview

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) invite applications specifically for permanent roles at Reaside Clinic, Rubery, Birmingham - a 92 bedded, medium secure inpatient service for adult males, who are experiencing severe mental health problems that have often also had a component or history of violence.

We are seeking enthusiastic, innovative and resilient professionals to join our expanding Secure Care and Offender Health Services (SCOH).

This role will include inputting into a multi-disciplinary clinical team to ensure good psychological treatment is formulation driven and aligned with Divisional and Trust objectives and values. You will deliver clinical interventions and offer a specialist psychological view of service user recovery. A large focus of the role will also include contributing to the delivery of the Divisional Psychological Therapies strategy. Your role will be to liaise with stakeholders, develop and implement a strategy alongside colleagues that is responsive to the professional and interpersonal challenges of working within forensic services with people who have a complex history. You will be supported in your work by a team of psychologists who are keen to ensure that the experience of working in secure care and offender health is rewarding, as much as it is challenging.

Responsibilities

The role also encompasses opportunities for research, service development, training and evaluation. There will be an expectation of line management and supervisory responsibilities with this role. We will also work with you to find your 'shiny thing' to ensure you develop in line with service needs.

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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).

Qualifications – 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.

Experience – 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.

Skills – 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 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).

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

Employer website: https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/