Job summary
Consultant Clinical Psychologist*Golden Hello Bonus of £6000*
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £70,417 to £89,974 FTE DOE -*The salary for this role will be reviewed once the NHS release their 2024/25 Agenda for Change (AfC)*
Hours: 28hrs per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and qualified Consultant Psychologist in neurorehabilitation to join us and help change the lives of people living with acquired brain injury (ABI)
We are seeking a Consultant Clinical Psychologist capable of ensuring the provision and development of high quality, innovative and evidence based neuropsychological rehabilitation practice.
Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more to recover and meet their personal employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do youll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
Main duties of the job
The Role:
Brainkind is looking for a Consultant Psychologist who wants to develop their experience by working in our highly regarded service at West Heath House;providing strategic, professional leadership to the multi-disciplinary rehabilitation team.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. To provide strategic professional and clinical leadership to the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust through the Clinical Executive.
2. To provide professional and clinical leadership within the service and across the region, ensuring the planning and development of a systematic response to service need, interpreting professional policies and ensuring that the service operates at the highest level of quality and current best practice, with research and development a major responsibility and taking a major role in the development and implementation of policy for the service as a whole.
3. To provide clinical services at a high level of expertise, supporting and advising colleagues on all issues concerned with neuropsychological clinical practice and providing expert clinical consultation and professional guidance to clinical neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists and other clinicians within BIRT.
4. To provide clinical leadership and direction for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust service across the relevant region, including the clinical leadership of the multidisciplinary team and support worker staff within the service and other related BIRT services in the region.
About us
Rewards:
5. A competitive salary of between £70,417 to £89,974 FTEDOE (Subject to change)
6. 38 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) (pro rata)
7. Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
8. Excellent training and support
9. Group life assurance
10. Company Pension
11. Eye voucher scheme
12. Long service and staff awards
13. Free parking
14. Nationwide employee staff discounts incl. eating out and shopping
15. Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more to recover and meet their personal employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do youll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Role:
Brainkind is looking for a Consultant Psychologist who wants to develop their experience by working in our highly regarded service at West Heath House;providing strategic, professional leadership to the multi-disciplinary rehabilitation team.
Your responsibilities will include:
16. To provide strategic professional and clinical leadership to the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust through the Clinical Executive.
17. To provide professional and clinical leadership within the service and across the region, ensuring the planning and development of a systematic response to service need, interpreting professional policies and ensuring that the service operates at the highest level of quality and current best practice, with research and development a major responsibility and taking a major role in the development and implementation of policy for the service as a whole.
18. To provide clinical services at a high level of expertise, supporting and advising colleagues on all issues concerned with neuropsychological clinical practice and providing expert clinical consultation and professional guidance to clinical neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists and other clinicians within BIRT.
19. To provide clinical leadership and direction for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust service across the relevant region, including the clinical leadership of the multidisciplinary team and support worker staff within the service and other related BIRT services in the region.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
20. About you:
21. What are we looking for?
22. Degree in Psychology, accepted by BPS for Graduate Basis Registration (GBR) or equivalent
23. Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the BPS.
24. Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
25. Ability to comprehend and communicate verbally and in writing highly complex and sensitive information in a manner appropriate to a range of settings and audiences, including complex highly emotive situations and those with significantly impaired communication capacities.
26. Ability to analyse and manage complex multi-factorial information from a range of sources both clinical and organisational, integrate and formulate it from a variety of psychological perspectives and make an expert professional judgement about appropriate options for action in a public service context.
27. Sound skills in the management of specialist professional staff, of the day to day management of clinical services and of financial resources.
28. Knowledge of legislation and its implication for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the service user group including but not limited to, the mental health act and relevant legislation.
29. Experience of working as a consultant or extensive experience working as a Principal Clinical Psychologist in a relevant setting.