Bank level 8a Senior Practitioner Psychologist

Birmingham Community Health Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Bank Senior Practitioner Psychologist to support the Neurodevelopmental Hub in Birmingham. This zero-hours, bank-only role offers flexible working to deliver highly specialist assessments and interventions for children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs.

You will provide expert psychological assessment, formulation and intervention, supervise colleagues, and contribute to service development, governance

Qualifications

• Specialist psychological assessment and intervention for neurodevelopmental/complex mental health needs.
• Leadership, consultation and supervision to psychology colleagues and wider teams.
• Active involvement in service development, governance and research activities.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist assessments and formulate treatment plans for children and young people.
• Lead MDT discussions and contribute to diagnostic decisions per NICE guidelines.
• Supervise practitioners, trainees and research staff to promote professional development.
• Support service evaluation, audits and research to improve neurodevelopmental care.

Skills

Assessment & Intervention

Leadership & Supervision

MDT Collaboration

Risk Assessment

Education

Doctoral-level training in Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychology

HCPC Practitioner Psychologist registration

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Bank Senior Practitioner Psychologist to join the Children & Families Division within our Neurodevelopmental Hub. This is a bank-only, zero-hours position, offering flexible working opportunities to support children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs across Birmingham. As a senior member of the multidisciplinary team, you will deliver highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention services while providing leadership, consultation and supervision to psychology colleagues and wider clinical teams. You will play a key role in service development, research, clinical governance and the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care. The successful candidate will hold HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist and have doctoral-level training in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society. Main duties of the job You will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention for children presenting with neurodevelopmental and complex mental health needs, using a wide range of evidence-based approaches and specialist assessment tools. Working autonomously, you will formulate and implement treatment plans, undertake risk assessments, contribute to multidisciplinary care planning and provide expert consultation to professionals across health, education and partner agencies. As a senior psychologist you will facilitate Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings, where diagnostic decisions are reached in collaboration with clinical colleagues. You will be responsible for reviewing assessment information, formulating and then facilitating diagnostic discussions in line with NICE guidelines. You will supervise practitioner psychologists, assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and research staff, supporting professional development and the delivery of psychologically informed care throughout the service. The role also includes leading service evaluation, audit and research activity, contributing to operational policy development and supporting the continuous improvement of neurodevelopmental services.

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. If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.