Job summary
1.0 WTE CLINICAL/FORENSIC CONSULTANT PSYCHOLOGIST
Band 8C (2 year Secondment / Fixed Term )Ardenleigh
Ardenleigh consists of 30 bedded Women's Blended Secure Service plus an outreach service and a 10 bedded medium secure FCAMHS service as well as a community Youth FIRST service. Inpatient service users are detained under the Mental Health Act and have a history of actual or potential harm to others. Intervention is offered across medium and low levels of security.
This post provides an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the leadership, management and delivery of psychological services within the Secure Care and Offender Health (SCOH) division. There are currently around 80 psychological staff within SCOH across a variety of inpatient and community services, a number of which are psychologically led. These additional contracts involve a training and consultation project with the Probation service and are part of the OPD pathway. Also, part of this pathway are a prison based personality disorder day treatment service for women (CAMEO) and intensive intervention and risk management service (PROSPER enhanced IIRMS) which offer services for both men and women. Also within the division are a forensic parenting assessment service, a consultation service with West Midlands police and a new Enhanced Reconnect pilot project working with high risk, high complex men and women leaving prison.
Main duties of the job
The division's psychological provision is multi-model and includes CBT; CAT; DBT; MBT and EMDR. Creative therapies are also embedded in services. The emphasis is to provide a high quality, inclusive psychological service for individuals with complex, often high risk and long term problems.
The post reflects a leadership role in the management of services and the strategic development of psychological service provision to offer a safe, effective, and valued clinical service with pathways to support recovery. The Consultant Psychologist role will involve leading and managing a team of psychological professionals and staff from other disciplines.We are looking for an enthusiastic, robust, inclusive and innovative practitioner interested in developing services, as well as undertaking clinical and therapeutic work with people with complex presentations. A commitment to developing psychologically minded and well informed professional teams with a quality and inclusive focus is important. Collaborating with service users and their families and carers and including their perspectives across all clinical and service developments is expected. Good leadership and communication skills, a commitment to multi-disciplinary working, excellent time management and organisational skills are essential . Experience of secure inpatient environments, community pathways, working with those who have experienced adverse early life experiences all is highly desirable.
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 in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure 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 description
Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities of this post, please see the attached job description and person specification.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities of this post, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Please click on the link for a little insight into our services and our people
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical or Forensic psychology (or its equivalent), the completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with service users of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
- Relevant post-qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise clinical/forensic psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Psychology Training Course criteria
Desirable
- Experience of the multi-professional management of teams or services.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Formal post qualification training in relevant leadership and / or management skills.
- Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' service users.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment commensurate with doctoral level training, including specialist clinical interviewing, behavioural observation, complex psychometric testing and specialist neuropsychological testing
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership and management skills
- Advanced level knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
Personal
Essential
- Ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- Is a 'team player' and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and the ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Commitment to the involvement of service users and carers on the development and delivery of mental health and other care services.
- Ability to identify and to provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviour.
- Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice.
- Commitment to working within a multicultural, inclusive framework
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical or Forensic psychology (or its equivalent), the completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with service users of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
- Relevant post-qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise clinical/forensic psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Psychology Training Course criteria
Desirable
- Experience of the multi-professional management of teams or services.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Formal post qualification training in relevant leadership and / or management skills.
- Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' service users.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment commensurate with doctoral level training, including specialist clinical interviewing, behavioural observation, complex psychometric testing and specialist neuropsychological testing
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership and management skills
- Advanced level knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
Personal
Essential
- Ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- Is a 'team player' and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and the ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Commitment to the involvement of service users and carers on the development and delivery of mental health and other care services.
- Ability to identify and to provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviour.
- Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice.
- Commitment to working within a multicultural, inclusive framework
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.
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).
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).
