Band 7/8a Practitioner Psychologist - Transplant services
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
An opportunity has arisen for a 0.8WTE Practitioner Psychologist to join our transplant teams across Renal Live Donor (0.4WTE) and Heart & Lung Transplant (0.4WTE) based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The Renal Live Donor Transplant service works with patients on a living donor transplant pathway requiring psychological assessment and follow-up as part of their transplant work-up and care. 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, with an emphasis on pre-transplant psychological assessment and follow-up psychological intervention.
You will ideally have experience of working in physical health settings, but our principal aim is to recruit a psychologist with the right passion and skills to support a quality service. There is ample opportunity to offer direct psychological interventions while working collaboratively with the MDT.
The role provides an exciting opportunity to collaborate with other psychologists nationally. You will 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 be able to demonstrate an understanding of the psychological impact of heart and respiratory failure, renal transplant, and how pre-existing vulnerabilities may impact upon the impact of such physical health difficulties. You will be required to work flexibly across outpatient and inpatient settings. 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 telephone and video link.
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.
You would be working under an 8B Practitioner Psychologist lead for each service. Based on experience, this 0.8WTE post can either be offered at a Band 8a or a Band 7/8a Preceptorship arrangement. Applicants from final year trainees in a Preceptorship arrangement are welcome.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details. Please note we will consider applications for band 7 to 8a preceptorship or band 8a role depending on level of experience, and we welcome applications from final year trainees.
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 with people experiencing both physical and mental health difficulties
* 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 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 applied psychology in different cultural contexts.
Skills/Knowledge
* Highly developed specialist knowledge in the field of clinical psychology commensurate with completion of professional training at Doctorate level.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.
* An understanding of the specific needs and difficulties of people affected by the specific clinical specialty.
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.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
£53,755 to £60,504 a year, pro rata
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