Senior Clinical Psychologist

Integrated Care System; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider seeks a Senior Clinical Psychologist for its inpatient unit in Birmingham. The role involves delivering expert psychological assessments and therapies to patients with severe mental health issues, ensuring their care is supported by research and consultation across teams. This position requires doctoral-level qualifications and registration as a Practitioner Psychologist, with opportunities for professional growth and development.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology required.
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Experience in the supervision of other psychologists is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
• Consult on service users' psychological care with the multidisciplinary team.
• Utilise research skills for audit and service development.

Skills

Complex methods of psychological assessment

Communication

Teaching and training

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council

Formal training in supervision of psychologists

Job description

Options for Care is looking to recruit an exceptional Senior Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about working with individuals with severe and enduring mental health diagnoses. The successful candidate will be based at Stanford Court, our new mental health inpatient unit, located in Highgate, Birmingham.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to work with our service users across our inpatient units; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to the multi-disciplinary team.

You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. In addition, you will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

About us

Options for Care provides mental health recovery services in Birmingham. Our primary objective is to empower service users and help them realise their full potential through improvements in their quality of life and a steady progression towards recovery, culminating in successful discharge.

Stanford Court is a 19-bed male mental health high dependency inpatient unit based in Highgate.

Job responsibilities

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to service users across our inpatient units; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to the multi-disciplinary team, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The assessments and interventions undertaken will be embedded within the framework of:

• MDT principles of working
• The SAFE model (shared assessment, formulation and education)

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience

Experience

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, 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 service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside Options for Care.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within professional 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.

Depending on experienceFrom £62,817 per annum