Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist–Band 8B

5 days ago


OldburyonSevern, South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Summary

This role is a senior position within the Mental Health division of Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for providing highly specialist psychological care to clients with complex and contentious mental health conditions or learning disabilities.

Main Responsibilities
  • Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients.
  • 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.
Clinical Responsibilities

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Supervisory/Professional Responsibility

Provides clinical supervision to Trainee Applied Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists.

  • Supervises Band 7 and 8a Applied Psychologists.
  • Specialist psychological supervision and scaffolding in a care pathway/cluster.
  • Line manage Assistant Psychologists.
Multi-Disciplinary Training and Development

Works with members of the multi-disciplinary team to develop and maintain psychologically minded ways of understanding and working with clients using the services.

  • Provides highly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other direct care staff in MDT.
  • Provide clinical supervision to other direct care staff in MDT.
  • Ensures appropriate clinical supervision and scaffolding is in place to enable embedding of psychological skills in relation to a specific care pathway/cluster.
Service and Organisational Development

Clinically leads MDT in development, implementation and monitoring of MD care plans/pathways/clusters.

  • Takes a lead role in MDT delivery of CQUIN and QIP projects, NICE benchmarking and compliance requirements as required within MDT.
  • Able to identify service priorities and to work with Consultant Applied Psychologist and/or Team/Service Managers on developing these into action plans.
Service Redesign and Cultural Change

Brings an understanding of psychological change processes to own role within MDT and to help MDT to cope with changes.

  • Brings an understanding of psychological change processes to help Team/Service Managers to devise suitable plans for change.
  • Represent a psychological perspective in regular specific Division-wide forums around governance, quality and redesign under guidance from Consultant Applied Psychologist.
Service Evaluation and Research

Takes a lead role in clinical audits as required within MDT.

  • Evaluates training and competencies of staff who have been trained in psychological therapies in relation to the care pathway/cluster.
  • Undertakes service evaluation and research.
  • Working on projects from conception to delivery.


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