Job summary
- Main area
- 7-8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Preceptorship
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7 - 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: 0.6
- Hours
- Full time - 22.5 hours per week (3 Full days)
- Job ref
- 285-2911A-MH
- Employer
- Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Quayside House
- Town
- Oldbury
- Salary
- £46,148 - £60,504 3 full days per week
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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7-8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (completion of preceptorship)
NHS AfC: Band 7 - 8a
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
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 4,000 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone’s life is a very powerful feeling. We know that our Trust runs on this desire to help and support people, and our Trust vision expresses this. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.
We proudly offer supportive, inclusive and family friendly employment and flexible working policies. We have a wide range of professional services and employee networks to help our colleagues be at their best - and find support if they need it. To find more about our staff benefits, please visit our website: blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and ethnic minority candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Black Country Healthcare we recognise and value all forms of knowledge and expertise, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the job description/person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For further supporting information to help you apply for this role please see documents attached under ‘Additional documents’.
Job overview
This post is available to external and internal candidates.
This role is a 0.6wte post sitting in the Mental Health division of BCHFT. As the largest clinical Division in the Trust, the MH Division houses community, urgent care, specialist and Physical Health Psychology services alongside Talking Therapies (previously IAPT).
Our community services have been transforming, in line with the NHS long Term Plan, and you would be joining us at the point where our new CMHTs are formed but not yet established. This allows lots of opportunity to influence the development and delivery of the psychology offer within the North team as the team enters its 'storming' and 'norming' stages of development.
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.
The successful applicant should be keen to apply their knowledge and skills in a new setting and is flexible and adaptable in their approaches to psychological work. Good team working skills and an ability to accommodate differing professional models is essential. The post holder will develop complex formulations, offer supervision, consultancy, and training. They will lead on developing the understanding of psychological approaches to mental health recovery.
Main duties of the job
This post primarily offers an exciting opportunity to develop and implement the skills required for effective medium and longer term psychological therapy on a one-to-one and/or group format.
The successful applicant will join the local based Community and Recovery Service and will also be part of a trust wide, team consisting of clinical and counselling psychologists, psychotherapists and intervention practitioners. The post holder will be supported and accountable to a clinical lead and team manager and be professionally supported by a consultant psychologist.
Working for our organisation
n BCHFT we are keen to promote cohesiveness and wellbeing in our psychology staff group. There are a number of Trust initiatives that support this, ranging from an annual event that brings all psychological professionals together to 'enhance our connectedness', to regular opportunities to engage, learn and share good practice through 'special interest groups'.
We value our staff groups and, as a leadership team, work hard to ensure that people feel valued for both their effort and delivered outcomes, and that this is reflected in regular feedback. We are pleased to be able to offer CPD to our staff through establishment of a dedicated budget, and we also utilise all Regional or National opportunities for training when they arise. Current training initiatives within community services include the National PT-SMHP framework, which has allowed several of our staff to undertake post graduate diploma training in NICE based therapies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Purpose
· Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist psychological care to clients with complex mental health conditions which may include challenging behaviours.
· To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
· To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health.
· To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
· In line with the banding of the post and its service context to:
o Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists
o Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development
o Provide leadership in service audit and development
o provide leadership in service evaluation and research
o Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change
Main Duties/Responsibilities
1.0. Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact
1.1. Provides specialist psychological assessment of clients with complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources, which may include neuropsychological testing.
1.2. 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.
1.3. Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
1.4. Formulates plans for specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients’ mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
1.5. Implements a range of specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
1.6. Evaluates therapy options and makes decisions about treatment.
1.7. To liaise with other professionals working within the NHS, Social Inclusion and Health and the voluntary sector on matters relating to client care that have implications for the service
2.0. Supervisory/Professional Responsibility
2.1. Clinical supervision of assistant psychologists under the guidance of their consultant psychologist.
2.2. Will hold responsibility and accountability for their own actions, ensuring appropriate support and supervision is sought when required.
2.3. To keep abreast of current developments in this field through reading, attendance at appropriate training courses, and a range of other CPD activities, and to ensure that a log is kept of this in line with Psychology and Counselling service and HCPC requirements.
2.4 To attend regular line management and caseload supervision and clinical supervision as well as a yearly appraisal (PDC) with reviews as required
3.0. Multi-Disciplinary Training and Development
3.1. Provides psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other direct care staff in MDT.
3.2. Provides clinical supervision to other direct care staff in MDT.
3.3. Provides training to other staff in MDT under the guidance of more senior psychologists.
4.0. Service and Organisational Development
4.1. Participate in CQUIN and QIP projects, NICE benchmarking and compliance requirements as required within MDT
5.0. Service Redesign and Cultural Change
5.1. Bring an understanding of psychological change processes to own role within MDT
6.0. Service Evaluation and Research
6.1. Participate in clinical audits as required within MDT
6.2. Undertake service evaluation and research in MDT
To undertake any other duties of a similar nature consistent with the responsibilities of this post in order to provide a quality service.
Person specification
Essential & Desirable as stated below
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.
- • HCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist
- • Evidence of continuing professional development
- • Working with mental health clients
- • Multi-disciplinary team working
- • Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
- • Risk assessment and risk management
- • Clinical governance
- • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group (Adults) and mental health.
- • Audit and research methodology
- • Social Inclusion agenda
- • The Trust’s Quality Improvement System
- • Communicate complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
- • Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions relevant to the client group of adults
- • Provide (within agreed timescale) effective teaching, training, consultancy and clinical
- • Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and lead practitioner responsibilities
- • Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems
- • Utilise psychometric tests competently
- • 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
- • Committed to continual quality and service improvement
- • Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development. Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
- • Be compassionate, empathetic and caring to everyone
- • Enable yourself and others to act with confidence and authority in order to achieve the best outcome for everyone
- • Work with others. Be inclusive by understanding and valuing others to achieve the best results for everyone and everything we do
- • Act with transparency and honesty; respect and value others to do the right thing at the right time for everyone.
- • Ability to travel independently in accordance with Trust policies and service need.
- • This post is subject to a Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure to identify any relevant criminal background.
Desirable criteria
- • Post-graduate qualification showing evidence of supervised practice in an evidence-based psychological therapeutic model
- • Registration with BPS
- • Experience of CBT, DBT, psychodynamic therapy, systemic therapy
- • Experience of research and audit
- • Skills in using multimedia materials in presentations
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mandeep Kaur Sandhu
- Job title
- Consultant Counselling Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 543 4292
- Additional information
Please call for any informal conversation about the post.
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