Principal Psychologist/counselling Psychologist

4 months ago


Dudley, United Kingdom Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**Principal Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist Pain Service**

**Site **Cross Street Health Centre **Town **Dudley

**Contract ** Permanent PT - 26.25 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in Pain Management Service. The post-holder will have an essential part to play in ensuring that psychological perspectives are taken into account across the service. You will provide specialised clinical input to individuals referred, and work closely with the multi-disciplinary teams working with this patient group.

The Physical Health Psychology Service is a team of psychologists, therapists and counsellors who aim to assist people in adapting to and developing creative solutions for physical health problems. The BCHFT Physical Health Psychology Service currently operates across 3 geographical patches (Dudley, Wolverhampton and Sandwell and West Birmingham).

**Main duties of the job**

Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex and contentious conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources, which may include neuropsychological testing.

Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.

Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high physical risks inherent in the client group.

**Working for our organisation**

**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.

**Person specificationEssentialEssential criteria**
- 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
- Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
- Registration with BPS
- Experience of 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 criteria**
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Highly developed knowledge and skills in the care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £58,972.00-£68,525.00 per year

Expected hours: 26.25 per week

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Childcare
- Company car
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Financial planning services
- Free flu jabs
- Free or subsidised travel
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Relocation assistance
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Transport links
- UK visa sponsorship

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- clinical supervision and supervision of doctoral trainees: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- HCPC Registration as an Applied Psychologist (required)
- Post-graduate doctoral level training (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 285-3293-MH



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