Clinical Applied Psychologist

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Bloxwich; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist to join the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT) in the Black Country. You will deliver highly specialist assessment, formulation and interventions for people with severe mental illness, lead supervision, and contribute to service development and governance.

Working alongside a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and multidisciplinary colleagues, you will promote recovery-focused care, provide

Qualifications

• HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist with experience of severe mental illness.
• Proficiency in evidence-based therapies and supervision.
• Experience in multidisciplinary leadership and service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation for people with complex needs.
• Lead supervision and contribute to workforce development and governance.
• Support care planning, pathway development and evidence-based practice across the team.

Skills

Clinical psychology

Supervision

Leadership

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Psychological assessment

Education

HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist

Job description

Are you an experienced Clinical Psychologist passionate about recovery, rehabilitation and trauma-informed care? Join the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT), a specialist community rehabilitation service supporting people with severe and enduring mental health needs across the Black Country.

CERT delivers intensive, recovery-focused support to people transitioning from hospital and specialist placements into their local communities. Guided by the CHIME principles of connectedness, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment, we help people build independence and live fulfilling lives in the least restrictive setting.

Working alongside a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and multidisciplinary team, you will provide highly specialist assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation for people with complex needs, including psychosis, bipolar disorder and psychological trauma. You will champion psychologically informed care, positive risk management, supervision, training and workforce development.

As a senior clinician, you will influence service development, governance, quality improvement, research and outcome evaluation, working with service users, carers and partner agencies to improve outcomes.

We are seeking an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist with experience of severe mental illness, evidence-based therapies, supervision and multidisciplinary leadership., You will provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation for people with severe and enduring mental health needs, supporting the delivery of psychologically informed, recovery-focused care.

Delivering specialist psychological assessments, formulations, evidence-based interventions and positive risk management for individuals, families, carers and groups.

Providing expert consultation and psychological advice to multidisciplinary colleagues, contributing to care planning, clinical decision-making and pathway development.

Promoting recovery, hope and social inclusion through compassionate, collaborative working with service users and carers.

Providing clinical supervision, leadership and support to psychologists, psychological therapists, assistant psychologists, trainees and wider multidisciplinary staff.

• Developing and delivering training, reflective practice and psychologically informed approaches across the service.
• Contributing to service leadership, quality improvement, audit, governance, NICE benchmarking, service redesign and innovation.
• Leading and supporting service evaluation, outcome monitoring, research and project work to improve quality and effectiveness.
• Maintaining high standards of safeguarding, information governance, professional practice and continuing professional development in line with Trust and HCPC requirements.

Employees, workers, and / or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviours aligned to the Trust's values. Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviours in carrying out their job and that individuals feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues' behaviours breach the spirit of Trust values.