Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Physical Health/Neuropsychology: Band 8a Senior Applied Psychologist. 0.3 WTE
An exciting new role in Physical Health Psychology is now available, due to the growth and development of our service. We are looking for an experienced Senior Clinical /Counselling Psychologist or a newly/recently qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who would like to develop their skills in working across a range of physical health teams and settings. This role allows a psychologist to experience the breadth of physical health work, without the need to change roles.
The Black Country Healthcare Physical Health Psychology Service operates across 3 geographical areas (Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Sandwell and West Birmingham) with a number of contracts in each area. This post will be based in Dudley Stroke and Neuro Service.
You will be working closely with the multi-disciplinary teams across inpatient and community settings, alongside a Principal Clinical Psychologist, a small team of Clinical Psychologists, and an Assistant Psychologist with support from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. A robust leadership and supervision structure is in place, alongside operational management.
Main duties of the job
* Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of data from various sources, including neuropsychological testing.
* Responsible for recognizing potential signs of client harm, abuse, or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking reasonable steps to protect the client.
* Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
* Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients' mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
Please see the Job description and person specification for full details.
About us
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 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.
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
Combining resources, strategies, and a talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services based on best practice and continual improvement.
Job responsibilities
* Accountable for own professional practice in delivering highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex mental health or learning disabilities, which may include challenging behaviours.
* Compassionately meet the needs of clients, their carers, and families.
* Promote a positive image of people with mental health or learning disabilities.
* Promote a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
* Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists.
* Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development.
* Provide leadership in service audit and development.
* Provide leadership in service evaluation and research.
* 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) accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
* 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 supervision of doctoral trainees.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Experience working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service, including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course, and a range of clinical severity in various care settings.
* Registration with BPS.
* Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary, and private sector agencies.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and a submission for Disclosure will be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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