Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in Critical Care Rehabilitation

Job description

Job responsibilities

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0.5 WTE GENERAL MEDICINE Dudley

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1.5 WTE LONG COVID (0.5 WTE Dudley; 0.5 WTE Wolverhampton; 0.5 WTE Sandwell)

Due to a recent service development 3 posts are available focusing on developing psychology provision within Long-COVID services across the trust. As well as holding a small clinical caseload, the post holder will have the opportunity to disseminate psychologically-informed care through attendance at multidisciplinary clinics and meetings. As an emerging area there will also be opportunities to contribute to service design, development and evaluation.

This is what our staff have said about working in the Physical Health Psychology service:

The psychology team provided a number of opportunities for broadening experiences, and the roles are varied in nature. For example, there are opportunities to provide supervision, training, reflective practice, team development and individual client work.

Thank you for helping me grow I wouldntt be the psychologist I am today...

My experiences enabled me to develop skills in consultation, which in turn helped me to support the development of psychological thinking in the team in which I was working.... in the development of psychological thinking across team meetings, trust wide discussions and broader forums where clinical decision making was involved.

For informal discussions please contact:

General Medicine & Post-ICU Louise Dodd

Chronic Pain Parneet Purewal

Palliative Care: Eva Matussek

Long COVID Sam Oakley

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

• oPost-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.
• oPost-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• oHCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status
• oTrained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
• oEvidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential

• oWorking as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
• oExercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
• oTeaching, training, consultancy and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
• oResearch and development
• oQuality and service improvement and evaluation.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of: oEvidence-based practice relevant to the role
• oRisk assessment and risk management

Skills/ Personal Qualities

Essential

• oProvide effective teaching, training, consultancy and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team
• oWork effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake care co-ordination/lead practitioner responsibilities

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cross Street Health Centre

Cross Street

Dudley

DY1 1RN

Employer's website

https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)