Band 7/8a Preceptorship or 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - ICCR

NHS; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job description

Band 7/8a Preceptorship or 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - ICCR

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting vacancy for newly qualified or early career Clinical or Counselling Psychologists within our Integrated Community Care and Recovery (ICCR) Services working across two of our service areas with adults with mental health difficulties in the community. The post will be 0.4 with a vibrant community mental health team (West Hub CMHT) and 0.6 with the Enhanced Team for Personality Disorders (Solihull Based although Trust wide). 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

We are looking for suitably experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologists (or equivalent applied Psychological Practitioners). Based on experience, this post can either be offered at a Band 8a or a Band 7/8a Preceptorship arrangement. Applicants from final year trainees in a Preceptorship arrangement are welcome.

It is a stimulating time in the service as the post-holders will be part of multi-professional teams supporting the Transformation of our Community Services in BSMHFT as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.

We welcome applications from those looking to build upon their clinical skills with a wide range of presenting difficulties post qualification or those with more experience who are keen to develop specialisms and greater leadership roles to make a difference in the community.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to ensure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Training/qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• Additional qualifications in an accredited therapy

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/psychosis

Knowledge and Skills

• Skills in formulation of problems from a 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 a multi-disciplinary team 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