Job summary
Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist
Permanent role (secondments considered also)
The Intensive Residential Outreach Care (IROC) service is a new and
unique service aimed to support the needs of young people in care or on the
cusp of care with complex psychological vulnerabilities. The service sits under
the West Midlands CYPMHS Provider Collaborative programme with funding
available over the next three years to develop a regional West Midlands
service.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a suitably qualified Senior Forensic/Clinical/Counselling
Psychologist to support the development of an exciting and innovative service. We
are looking for an experienced clinician who is passionate about working with
care-experienced young people and is looking to develop their leadership and
management skills. The successful candidate will work closely with a range of
stakeholders regionally and will support in the evaluation of the IROC project
as it progresses and expands over the course of the pilot. The successful
candidate will offer advice, consultation, training and supervision on clients
psychological care and provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation
and interventions for clients, carers and professional networks. The postholder
will have the opportunity to make a valuable contribution to developing the
psychologically informed culture for this cohort along with colleagues in the
team and across local and regional agencies working in this area.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity for a suitably experienced
clinician to be involved in the implementation of a new service and clinical
framework that aims to bring stability and predictability to the lives of some
of the most vulnerable young people within Birmingham and the wider West
Midlands region.
Do
you have the skills to build strong and lasting relationships with a variety of
stakeholders? Do you value multi-disciplinary approaches? Are you passionate
about changing the lives and trajectory of care experienced children? Then you
can make a difference! You can be part of providing a truly exceptional service
for our children and young people as well as the wider healthcare system.
Flexible working may be required in order to
meet core service hours (8am 8pm) including weekends; this may be subject to change
as the service evolves.
For an informal discussion regarding this post, please contact Dr Vicky
Thakordas-Desai, Consultant Forensic Psychologist - IROC Lead on 07730 282546
or Dr Anne Crawford-Docherty, Divisional Director of Psychological Therapies on
07385 950955
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.
Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is
committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and
enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all
areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age,
gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person
specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham
Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have
evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include
transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional
registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for
our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so
please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person
specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham
Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have
evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include
transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional
registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for
our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so
please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Clinical or Forensic Psychologist eligible for chartered status. Skills in meeting the needs of children, adolescents and young adults with mental health needs.
- Post qualification training in specific psychological therapies and interventions with children, young people and young adults with mental health difficulties.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of working with children, adolescents and their families with mental health needs
- Post-qualification experience
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
- Experience of providing specialist psychological assessment and treatment for clients across the full range of mental health settings to include outpatient, community, day services and in-patient settings.
- Experience of administrating and interpreting a range of structured professional judgement tools, actuarial and psychometric measures specific to children and young people.
- Experience of assessing and treating children, young people and/or young adults in the community.
- Experience of working with children social care, youth offending, education and police services.
- Experience of using specialist psychological therapies for patients with co-morbid difficulties.
- Experience of assessing and managing risky clients in the community.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of child protection and adult safeguarding processes and procedures.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and young people in the community
- Experience of teaching, training, staff support, research
- Some experience of supervision
- Some experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services
- Experience of neuropsychological assessment
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with a range of professionals in community and secure settings.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Personal Qualities/Disposition
Essential
- Ability to communicate well and to form good working relationships with professionals at all levels
- A positive approach to working with clients with mental health needs and their families.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professionals and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical [practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
Circumstances
Essential
- Flexibility regarding working hours, including the ability to work some evenings and weekends as necessary
- Ability to travel across the city of Birmingham, between bases and within the community for work purposes.
- Valid Drivers License and Car owner (or have daily access to a car) for work purposes.
Interests and Motivation to the job
Essential
- Interest in developing services for clients within a 0-25 mental health service.
- Enthusiasm for working with this client group and their families.
Desirable
- Likely to be committed to working within the service for at least two years
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Clinical or Forensic Psychologist eligible for chartered status. Skills in meeting the needs of children, adolescents and young adults with mental health needs.
- Post qualification training in specific psychological therapies and interventions with children, young people and young adults with mental health difficulties.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of working with children, adolescents and their families with mental health needs
- Post-qualification experience
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
- Experience of providing specialist psychological assessment and treatment for clients across the full range of mental health settings to include outpatient, community, day services and in-patient settings.
- Experience of administrating and interpreting a range of structured professional judgement tools, actuarial and psychometric measures specific to children and young people.
- Experience of assessing and treating children, young people and/or young adults in the community.
- Experience of working with children social care, youth offending, education and police services.
- Experience of using specialist psychological therapies for patients with co-morbid difficulties.
- Experience of assessing and managing risky clients in the community.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of child protection and adult safeguarding processes and procedures.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and young people in the community
- Experience of teaching, training, staff support, research
- Some experience of supervision
- Some experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services
- Experience of neuropsychological assessment
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with a range of professionals in community and secure settings.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Personal Qualities/Disposition
Essential
- Ability to communicate well and to form good working relationships with professionals at all levels
- A positive approach to working with clients with mental health needs and their families.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professionals and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical [practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
Circumstances
Essential
- Flexibility regarding working hours, including the ability to work some evenings and weekends as necessary
- Ability to travel across the city of Birmingham, between bases and within the community for work purposes.
- Valid Drivers License and Car owner (or have daily access to a car) for work purposes.
Interests and Motivation to the job
Essential
- Interest in developing services for clients within a 0-25 mental health service.
- Enthusiasm for working with this client group and their families.
Desirable
- Likely to be committed to working within the service for at least two years
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Finch Road Primary Care Centre
2 Finch Road
Birmingham
B19 1HS
Employer's website
https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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