Band 7/8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - DBT Service / East CMHTs

Band 7/8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - DBT Service / East CMHTs

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a suitably experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, (eligibility for entry onto the HCPC Register of Practitioner Psychologists). This post can either be offered at a Band 8a or a Band 7-8a Preceptorship arrangement depending on experience. Applications from final year trainees in a Preceptorship arrangement are welcome.

We are pleased to create an opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, to work across our Community DBT (CASCADE) Service and East Hub CMHT Psychological Service. We are looking for a psychologist who is highly motivated to work with presentations encompassing risk, personality difficulties, complex trauma, mental health and social inequalities. This is an ideal post to apply your full range of psychological skills and knowledge including consultation, training, supervision, service development, leadership, and research in addition to direct clinical work.

Main duties of the job

CASCADE is an all-ages DBT-plus service (14+) based at Thomas Telford House in Erdington, delivering comprehensive, adapted and DBT-informed therapies, to treat core difficulties associated with severe emotional dysregulation, complex PTSD and other co-occurring presentations. For this post it is desirable for a candidate to be DBT trained; however, we can offer DBT training as part of a development plan.

East Hub CMHT Psychological Service is based at Small Heath Health Centre and provides psychological input to service users under Riverside CMHT and Small Heath CMHT. The site is easily accessible by public transport and there is also a large trust car park.

Job responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Training/qualifications

• Satisfactory completion of a Health and Care Professions Council/British Psychological Society accredited doctorate professional training course in either clinical or counselling psychology. Also qualify for registration for Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
• Pre-qualification training or additional qualifications in an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or other psychological therapy: including DBT, MBT, brief psychodynamic interventions, CAT, EMDR.

Experience

• Significant post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients with complex difficulties across adult secondary or tertiary care settings. (for 8a post)
• Experience working in Adult Secondary or Tertiary Mental Health services (for Preceptorship)
• Experience of working with service users with personality difficulties/complex trauma/dissociation/psychosis

Knowledge and Skills

• Skills in formulation of problems from psychological perspective and implementation of interventions appropriate for use with complex presenting problems.
• High level knowledge of theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.

Personal

• Ability to interact with and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health difficulties.
• Experience of working closely with others in an MDT setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary: £46,148 to £60,504 per annum, pro rata.