Job summary
Post-critical Illness, Deconditioning and Breathlessness Service, Band 8b
Those seeking less than full-time hours may be considered and are encouraged to contact us for informal discussion.
Are you a Clinical Psychologist experienced in Clinical Health Psychology? Are you passionate about developing services and looking for the next step in your career working alongside a growing team?
Due to a newly commissioned service provided jointly by BCHC and UHB NHS Trust, we have an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist to join a developing service.
The service provides multidisciplinary assessment and interventions for patients who are experiencing deconditioning, breathlessness and/or fatigue following a period of critical illness. This may include working in outpatient settings across both NHS Trusts, community and inpatient in reach working.
As a Clinical Psychologist experienced in Clinical Health Psychology you will support the development of the new service model, establishing a holistic multilevel psychologically informed approach. The team highly values psychological professionals who will play a major role in the development and delivery of this new service.
The post holder will join a dynamic and growing team who specialise in Clinical Health Psychology and Neuropsychology, acting as a senior clinician and supporting the overall leadership and management of psychological professionals and standards in the Division.
Main duties of the job
To deliver a Clinical Psychology Service commensurate with a post graduate doctoral level of training and further specialist training and experience. To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to adults in the Deconditioning, Breathlessness and Fatigue Management Pathway, including patients who have experienced a period of critical illness.
To support the development, delivery and governance of a multi-level model of psychologically informed care within the specified service area.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
To support proposals and implementation policy changes within the area served by the service.
To be accountable for the direct delivery of clinical services to clients, their families and carers.
About us
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with Learning Disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full job description and responsibilities please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full job description and responsibilities please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental.
- HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
Other
Essential
- Ability to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area if required
Experience
Essential
- Relevant assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience working with adults with complex physical health and psychological needs
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management
- 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 nonprofessional groups
- 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
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to work flexibly to support needs of the service
- Demostrates a high level of resilience in dealing with challenging situations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental.
- HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
Other
Essential
- Ability to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area if required
Experience
Essential
- Relevant assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience working with adults with complex physical health and psychological needs
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management
- 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 nonprofessional groups
- 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
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to work flexibly to support needs of the service
- Demostrates a high level of resilience in dealing with challenging situations
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
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).
