Job summary
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The Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is excited to announce multiple vacancies within our expanding Clinical Health Psychology Service. We are seeking compassionate and committed Clinical, Counselling, and Health Psychologists who champion inclusivity and are dedicated to improving the mental health and well-being of individuals affected by physical health challenges.
About Us:
Our Clinical Health Psychology Service comprises a dynamic team of psychologists, psychotherapists, and counsellors who assist individuals in adapting to and developing creative solutions for living with physical health problems. Operating across Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Sandwell and West Birmingham, we offer a range of services tailored to meet diverse patient needs.
Current Opportunities:
We have several vacancies available due to service developments and staff promotions. We welcome discussions with candidates interested in single or combined roles across various specialties.
Main duties of the job
We welcome applications from experienced clinicians as well as newly qualified (or soon to be qualified) psychologists. The successful applicants will be banded according to their experience and offered an individualised and structured programme of professional development within the role. Experience of working in a physical health setting is desirable, but we are also keen to hear from applicants who have been working in other specialties, who feel they have transferable skills. The most important qualities are good communication skills, working co-operatively and thinking creatively.
The post holders will benefit from joining a supportive and enthusiastic team of practitioner psychologists and other psychological professionals who utilise a varied range of therapeutic approaches. There are opportunities to engage in CPD and supervision across a range of models, including EMDR, psychodynamic, attachment, humanistic and 3rd wave approaches. In each role you will be working alongside a Principal Psychologist and other applied psychologists and psychological professionals, with support from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. A robust leadership and supervision structure is in place, alongside operational management.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of a Medical Consultant, Psychologist, Physiotherapist and an Occupational Therapist applying a biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain. Following assessment by the MDT a care plan is created for the client for the future management of their chronic pain condition. With respect to the psychological aspect of the assessment, the clients may be referred for 1:1 physical health psychology, PMP, counselling, or directed to an appropriate service, dependent upon their physical, social and psychological needs.
Please see job description and person specification for main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and 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.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees.
* 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 across a range of care settings.
Desirable
* 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 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer details
Employer name
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Various sites across Sandwell, Dudley & Wolverhampton
DY1 1RN
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