Principal Applied Psychologist

6 months ago

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

Job summary

Are you interested in providing a leadership role in the development and provision of psychological therapies in psychosis and those at risk of psychosis?

Are you looking for a diverse range of opportunities to further develop clinically and in your leadership role, including additional training from a dedicated CPD budget?

Working in the Early Intervention in Psychosis Services in the Black Country may be for you

This post will be based across two teams, including Sandwell and Wolverhampton.

You will act in a lead role in providing professional management and clinical supervision to Psychologists (at Band 8a below); and Psychological Therapists, and taking a lead role for the recruitment of psychology staff. You will provide specialist and highly skilled psychological assessments, formulations, interventions and evaluations of outcome for clients with complex mental health issues, social and emotional difficulties, their carers and/or families, and groups, with the aim of maximising well-being, social, emotional and occupational functioning, to improve relationships with self and others, and reduce risk to self and/or others.

Main duties of the job

You will take a lead role for Psychology within the Early Intervention in Psychosis Services, working to develop psychological provision for clients under the care of the service, through service development and the recruitment of psychology staff, and to provide professional management and clinical supervision to psychology staff within the service; as well as supporting the psychological thinking and interventions of non-psychology staff.

You will be an integral part of the Service, who work with clients with a diagnosis of, or who may be developing, a First Episode of Psychosis, and who often present with complex mental health, social and relational difficulties. The post holder will be expected to contribute fully offering highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation to individuals, families, and groups, as well as offering specialist advice and consultation to the team and other professionals. They will take a lead role in developing audits, research and service evaluation activity.

About us

At Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, we're building a high-calibre, diverse and inclusive mental health workforce. One that will give talented professionals like you the opportunity to shape an outstanding service that will transform community mental healthcare and deliver happier and healthier lives all across our communities.

The Trust is rated 'Good' from CQC (Care Quality Commission) and will become the lead provider for mental health services across The Black Country . We have recently invested in newly created clinical divisions and are currently developing new models of integrated primary and secondary care for adults and older adults, as well launching a far-reaching inpatient strategy, working to eradicate dormitories and building new facilities.

This ambitious model is multi-agency and multi-disciplinary, opening the door for you to work in a collaborative and flexible way with partners, service users, carers and their families.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities, please refer to Principal Clinical Psychologist job description.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

Honours degree in psychology (at level of 2:1 or above) with eligibility for Graduate Membership of BPS. Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS; including highly developed knowledge of models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, life span developmental psychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies (one of which must be Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and doctoral level research design and methodology. Post-doctoral training in the supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists and sufficient experience to be recognised by the Division of Clinical Psychology as able to offer training placements to Trainee Clinical Psychologists undertaking doctoral training.

Desirable

Experience of working in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service Training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Psychosis (CBTp)

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