Clinical/counselling/forensic Psychologist

2 months ago


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

_**RELOCATION PACKAGE OF UPTO £8.5K FOR THOSE MOVING TO BLACK COUNTRY REGION**_

We are looking to recruit a Full-time Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist to our community based Treatment Team service, for working age adults, who have experience in secondary care services working with clients who have a complex trauma presentation and diagnosis such as Bipolar, Psychosis, & Personality Disorders.

The successful applicants will join the local based team consisting of clinical and counselling psychologists, psychotherapists and intervention practitioners.

The post holders will be supported and accountable to the team/service manager team manager, and be professionally supported by a consultant psychologist.

**Main duties of the job**

There will be opportunities to be directly involved in shaping the service model and developing the other Teams going forward. You will take a lead in developing and designing service evaluations, and will engage and empower service users and carers to continually work on improving the service.

We are linked closely to local universities and provide placements for trainees. The applicant will be expected to supervise and provide placements to such courses.

Members of our wider psychology team have wide-ranging therapeutic interests ranging from psychodynamic to systemic/narrative and cognitive-behavioural models as well as expertise in consultancy, supervision and training and form a supportive network for team and service members.

The interview will consist of 20 minute presentation (title will be given when successful to moving to interview stage) followed by a panel interview.

**Working for our organisation**

**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 whole of the region we provide:

- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- CAMHS

**Person specification**

**Essential 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
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- 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 the full range of care settings.
- Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as a care co-ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team
- Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
- Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
- Research and development
- Active participation in quality and service improvement initiatives
- Evidence
- based practice relevant to the role
- Risk assessment and risk management
- Clinical governance
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health and its implications for clinical practice.
- Audit and research methodology
- Social Inclusion agenda
- The Trust’s Quality Improvement System
- Communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people
- Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions relevant to the client group in Treatment Team
- Articulate the value added by applied psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health and learning disability healthcare provision.
- Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems
- Utilise psychometric tests competently
- Provide effective teaching, training, consultancy and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team.
- Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
- Demonstrate effective keyboard skills
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional, academic and public settings.
- Able to work in accordance with the Trust Values and Behaviours.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances
- Respects and has awareness of the advantages of joint working with other experienced professionals in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
- Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
- Committed t



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