Employer: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Town: Birmingham
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/02/2025 23:59
Band 8a Practitioner Psychologist - Heart and Lung Transplant
Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Practitioner Psychologist to join the Heart and Lung Transplant Psychology Service based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The Heart and Lung transplant service works with patients with advanced heart failure and respiratory disease. Patients who are not suitable for heart transplant at the time of their assessment may be offered a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) as a bridge to transplant. As a psychologist, your role will be to consider how to offer a timely and effective service to meet the differing needs of the patient populations across the patient pathway. These include pre-transplant assessments, patients on the national waiting list for transplant, post-transplant recipients, and those living with an LVAD.
There is ample opportunity to offer direct psychological interventions while working collaboratively with the MDT. You would be working under an 8B Practitioner Psychologist lead for the Heart and Lung Transplant Service. The role also provides an exciting opportunity to collaborate and network with other psychologists working in similar services nationally. You will be welcomed by Heart and Lung Transplant colleagues who are keen to support the continued development of the service. You will also be a valued colleague in our Clinical Health Psychology Service and the Psychological Professionals workforce at BSMHFT.
Main duties of the job
You will need to demonstrate a highly developed understanding of the psychological impact of heart and respiratory failure and the need for advanced therapies and how pre-existing vulnerabilities may impact upon the impact of such physical health difficulties, as well as being able to adapt your psychological interventions accordingly. With transplant recipients being under the care of the transplant service for life, specific consideration will need to be given to how to tailor psychology input accordingly, along with the ability to work flexibly across outpatient and inpatient settings.
You will have experience in working with patients with physical health conditions. You will be working closely with doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals to provide high-quality care, and you will need strong skills in consultation, supervision, and teaching as part of our multidisciplinary teamwork. This role will require face-to-face work, as well as skills in being able to deliver psychological assessment, including pre-surgical assessment, psychological interventions, and teaching in a variety of formats, including via the telephone and video link.
This is a 15 hours per week post but there may be opportunities for additional hours in other specialties – please do indicate in your application if this would be of interest.
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing, and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive, and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our mission is to provide excellent psychological care and support for patients and staff, which is compassionate, inclusive, and committed. If you thrive on challenge, creativity, and a dynamic and supportive work environment, in which psychological thinking is highly valued in the wider multi-disciplinary teams, along with the opportunity to shape the future of the service, this is the job for you.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or health 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 or post-qualification training or additional qualifications in an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or other psychological therapy including CFT, ACT, DBT, MBT, brief psychodynamic interventions, systemic therapy, CAT, EMDR.
Experience
* Experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling/health psychologist, including demonstrable experience within people affected by physical illness.
* Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of working in acute physical health settings.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care (particularly physical health settings).
* Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Skills/Knowledge
* An understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people affected by the condition or clinical issue for whom the psychology service for this post works with.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process, you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however, all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
Please note, if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust.
All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your first week with us.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.
If applicable to your role, the Trust will require you to sign up for the DBS Update Service. The Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship hereBrowse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)1. It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found hereCriminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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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.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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