Employer: Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Canalside
Town: Bloxwich
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/03/2025 23:59
Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
* Adult and older adult mental health services
* Specialist learning disability services
* Mental health services for children and young people
* Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
We currently employ over 4,000 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone’s life is a very powerful feeling.
For further supporting information to help you apply for this role please see documents attached under ‘Additional documents’.
Job overview
Are you an experienced, enthusiastic and resilient Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who thrives in a role which includes variety, complexity and challenge alongside opportunities for growth? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to lead our Autism Service Condition Pathway Team across Walsall and Dudley CAMHS.
Main duties of the job
You will offer leadership and clinical expertise within the two small assessment teams who are part of the wider CAMHS services with links to the CAMHS Crisis Team, CAMHS Learning Disability Team and CAMHS Children in Care Team.
You will also have the opportunity to undertake some neurodevelopmental assessments as well as offer clinical supervision and complex case scaffolding.
A strong, positive team culture has been fostered with a particular emphasis on wellbeing and building resilience. As senior clinicians within the team you will be expected to have a strong leadership and supervision role.
The post will involve supporting clinical service delivery, with a particular focus on developing complex formulations in relation to neurodevelopmental conditions.
Working for our organisation
The team is one of four CAMHS teams in the Trust and is a large, dynamic and successful CAMHS service comprising of a broad spectrum of disciplines and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working.
The service offers direct therapeutic work in the form of individual therapy, group work and parent workshops as well as consultation and training to professionals. The service has a comprehensive delivery model with care pathways for a wide range of mental health difficulties.
The Service recognises the importance of receiving regular supervision and of Continued Professional Development and actively supports your training and study.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Purpose (within the context of providing Clinical Leadership regarding Neuro-Developmental Conditions)
* Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex mental health difficulties and learning disabilities.
* To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
* To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental health needs.
* To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
* In line with the banding of the post and its service context to:
o Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists
o Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development
o Provide leadership in service audit and development
o Provide leadership in service evaluation and research
o Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change
Person specification
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in Applied Psychology (or its equivalent as accredited by the BPS).
* Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* HCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status.
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees.
* Significant experience working with children, families and systems in relation to Neuro-Developmental conditions.
* Highly developed knowledge and skills in the care of difficult to treat groups.
** Please Note that Internal at Risk Employees will be given preference for this position**
We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward for this vacancy at any time should we receive an overwhelming response of applications. We therefore encourage applicants to apply early if you wish to be considered for this post.
If you do not hear from the recruitment 4 weeks within the advertised closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful at the shortlisting stage.
The Trust is committed to equal opportunities, providing opportunities for flexible working and is a non-smoking organisation.
As a Trust we are passionate about Anti-Racism, Disability Inclusion, and LGBTQ+ Equality, and are committed to diversifying our staff team in all areas and at all levels of seniority.
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